Lesa Scholl is Dean of Academic Studies at Emmanuel College, University of Queensland, Australia.Emily Morris teaches literature and composition at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada; and Sarina Gruver Moore is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Calvin College, USA.

"This fine collection of essays, timed perfectly to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Gaskell’s death, will reach a broad audience from undergraduates to post-graduate researchers." - Deirdre d'Albertis, Bard College, USA, author of Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text"Overall, this is an excellent collection which succeeds in viewing Gaskell apart from the ‘purely parochial construction of place’ that has historically dominated her critical reception (p. 3). It will be of great interest and usefulness to the increasing number of scholars who are drawn to the riches of Gaskell’s writings." - Jude Piesse, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

• Part 1 Home Geographies: Gaskell on the waterfront: leisure, labor, and maritime space in the mid-19th century. The humanizing transformations of the space of the home in Gaskell's Cranford. 'You might pioneer a little home': hybrid spaces, identities, and homes in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Grave matters: gothic places and kinetic spaces in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton. Part 2 Mobility and Boundaries: Unimagined community and disease in Ruth. Temporally out of sync: migration as fiction and philanthropy in Gaskell's life and work. Moving between North and South: cultural signs and the progress of modernity in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel. In search of shared time: national imaginings in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Part 3 Literary and Imagined Spaces: Catching the post: Elizabeth Gaskell as traveler and letter-writer. Gaskell the ethnographer: the case of 'modern Greek songs'. Reading 'an every-day story' through bifocals: seriality and the limits of realism in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. Gaskell's 'rooted' prose realism. Part 4 Cultural Performance and Visual Spaces: Applied meteorology: scientific accuracy and imaginative writing in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Cousin Phillis' and Wives and Daughters. Women's voices in the Pre-Raphaelite space of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. 'Look back at me': the material re-performance of the Victorian in North and South (2004).

Lesa Scholl is Dean of Academic Studies at Emmanuel College, University of Queensland, Australia.Emily Morris teaches literature and composition at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada; and Sarina Gruver Moore is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Calvin College, USA.

"This fine collection of essays, timed perfectly to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Gaskell’s death, will reach a broad audience from undergraduates to post-graduate researchers." - Deirdre d'Albertis, Bard College, USA, author of Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text"Overall, this is an excellent collection which succeeds in viewing Gaskell apart from the ‘purely parochial construction of place’ that has historically dominated her critical reception (p. 3). It will be of great interest and usefulness to the increasing number of scholars who are drawn to the riches of Gaskell’s writings." - Jude Piesse, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

• Part 1 Home Geographies: Gaskell on the waterfront: leisure, labor, and maritime space in the mid-19th century. The humanizing transformations of the space of the home in Gaskell's Cranford. 'You might pioneer a little home': hybrid spaces, identities, and homes in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Grave matters: gothic places and kinetic spaces in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton. Part 2 Mobility and Boundaries: Unimagined community and disease in Ruth. Temporally out of sync: migration as fiction and philanthropy in Gaskell's life and work. Moving between North and South: cultural signs and the progress of modernity in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel. In search of shared time: national imaginings in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Part 3 Literary and Imagined Spaces: Catching the post: Elizabeth Gaskell as traveler and letter-writer. Gaskell the ethnographer: the case of 'modern Greek songs'. Reading 'an every-day story' through bifocals: seriality and the limits of realism in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. Gaskell's 'rooted' prose realism. Part 4 Cultural Performance and Visual Spaces: Applied meteorology: scientific accuracy and imaginative writing in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Cousin Phillis' and Wives and Daughters. Women's voices in the Pre-Raphaelite space of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. 'Look back at me': the material re-performance of the Victorian in North and South (2004).

Lesa Scholl is Dean of Academic Studies at Emmanuel College, University of Queensland, Australia.Emily Morris teaches literature and composition at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada; and Sarina Gruver Moore is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Calvin College, USA.

"This fine collection of essays, timed perfectly to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Gaskell’s death, will reach a broad audience from undergraduates to post-graduate researchers." - Deirdre d'Albertis, Bard College, USA, author of Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text"Overall, this is an excellent collection which succeeds in viewing Gaskell apart from the ‘purely parochial construction of place’ that has historically dominated her critical reception (p. 3). It will be of great interest and usefulness to the increasing number of scholars who are drawn to the riches of Gaskell’s writings." - Jude Piesse, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

• Part 1 Home Geographies: Gaskell on the waterfront: leisure, labor, and maritime space in the mid-19th century. The humanizing transformations of the space of the home in Gaskell's Cranford. 'You might pioneer a little home': hybrid spaces, identities, and homes in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Grave matters: gothic places and kinetic spaces in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton. Part 2 Mobility and Boundaries: Unimagined community and disease in Ruth. Temporally out of sync: migration as fiction and philanthropy in Gaskell's life and work. Moving between North and South: cultural signs and the progress of modernity in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel. In search of shared time: national imaginings in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Part 3 Literary and Imagined Spaces: Catching the post: Elizabeth Gaskell as traveler and letter-writer. Gaskell the ethnographer: the case of 'modern Greek songs'. Reading 'an every-day story' through bifocals: seriality and the limits of realism in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. Gaskell's 'rooted' prose realism. Part 4 Cultural Performance and Visual Spaces: Applied meteorology: scientific accuracy and imaginative writing in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Cousin Phillis' and Wives and Daughters. Women's voices in the Pre-Raphaelite space of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. 'Look back at me': the material re-performance of the Victorian in North and South (2004).