Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I

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• Part I Volume 1: Journalism, Early Fiction and Personal Writings Diary 1835-8, privately printed (1923); 'On Visiting the Grave of my Stillborn Little Girl' (1836); 'Sketches among the Poor - No. I', Blackwood's Magazine (1837); 'Clopton Hall' in W Howit, Visits to Remarkable Places (1840); 'Cheshire Customs' in W Howit, The Rural Life of England (1840); 'Manchester Christmas Trees' in W Howit, The Rural Life of England (1840); 'Libbie Marsh's Three Eras', 'The Sexton's Hero', Howitt's Journal (1847); 'Christmas Storms and Sunshine', Howitt's Journal (1848); 'Hand and Heart', Sunday School Penny Magazine (1849); 'Martha Preston', Sartain's Union Magazine (1850); 'Lizzie Leigh', 'The Well of Pen-Morfa', 'The Heart of John Middleton', Household Words (1850); 'Disappearances', Household Words (1851); Review of Spiritual Alchemy, Athenaeum (1851); Review of Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Athenaeum (1851); 'Bessy's Troubles at Home', Sunday School Penny Magazine (1852); 'The Schah's English Gardener', Household Words (1852); 'Cumberland Sheep-Shearers', Household Words (1853); 'Traits and Stories of the Huguenots', Household Words (1853); 'Modern Greek Songs', 'Company Manners', Household Words (1854); Preface, annotation and interpolated material to [M Cummins], Mabel Vaughan (1857); Preface to C Vecchi, Garibaldi at Caprera (1862); 'Shams', Fraser's Magazine (1863); 'An Italian Institution', All the Year Round (1863); 'Robert Gould Shaw', Macmillan's Magazine (1863); 'French Life', Fraser's Magazine (1864); Review of Torrens, Lancashire Lessons, The Reader (1865); 'Two Fragments of Ghost Stories' (1906) Volume 2: Novellas and Shorter Fiction I The Moorland Cottage, Cranford and Related Writing The Moorland Cottage (1850); 'The Last Generation in England', Sartain's Union Magazine (1849); 'Mr Harrison's Confessions', Ladies' Companion (1851); Cranford, Household Words (1851-3); 'The Cage at Cranford', All the Year Round (1863) Volume 3: Novellas and Shorter Fiction II Round the Sofa and Tales from Household Words 1852-9 'The Old Nurse's Story', A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire, Household Words (1852); 'Morton Hall', 'My French Master', Household Words (1853); 'The Squire's Story', Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire, Household Words Extra Christmas Number (1853); 'An Accursed Race', Household Words (1855); 'Half a Life-time Ago', revised from 'Martha Preston', Household Words (1855); 'The Poor Clare', Household Words (1856); 'The Doom of the Griffiths', Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1858); 'My Lady Ludlow', Household Words (1858); 'The Sin of a Father', reprinted as 'Right at Last', Household Words (1858); 'The Manchester Marriage', Household Words Extra Christmas Number (1858); 'The Half-Brothers', Round the Sofa (1859) Volume 5: Mary Barton Mary Barton; A Tale of Manchester Life (1848); William Gaskell, 'Two Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect' Volume 7: North and South North and South (1855)