E-texts

• The Works of Mrs. Gaskell have been all digitised.
• The Modern English Collection (The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia)
  • "Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family"
• Concordance Softwares
  • MS DOS (UTORONTO)
  • Windows (Dataflight Software)
  • Macintosh (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
    anonymous FTP
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Mitsuharu Matsuoka

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Novels

1. Mary Barton (31 March 1996)
   1. Part I (427K)
   2. Part II (443K)
2. The Moorland Cottage (230K, 2 July 1997)
3. Ruth (10 May 1996)
   1. Part I (450K)
   2. Part II (422K)
4. Cranford (28 December 1995)
   • Full (396K)
   • Illustrated (16 chapters)
   • Abridged (247K)
5. North and South (18 April 1996)
   1. Volume I (463K)
   2. Volume II (523K)
6. The Life of Charlotte Brontë
   • First Version with French accents replaced (28 February 1996)
     1. Part I (485K)
     2. Part II (495K)
   • Second Version with French accents (11 March 1998)
     1. Part One (485K)
     2. Part Two (495K)
7. My Lady Ludlow (10 October 1997)
   1. Part One (204K)
   2. Part Two (221K)
8. A Dark Night's Work (380K, 15 July 1997)
9. Sylvia's Lovers (9 September 1996)
   1. Part I (253K)
   2. Part II (275K)
   3. Part III (270K)
   4. Part IV (270K)
10. Cousin Phillis (210K, 31 December 1995)
11. Wives and Daughters (1542K, 16 July 1997)
    1. Part I (Chapters I - X, 286K)
    2. Part II (Chapters XXI - XX, 259K)
    3. Part III (Chapters XXI - XXX, 259K)
    4. Part IV (Chapters XXXI - XL, 242K)
    5. Part V (Chapters XLI - L, 237K)
    6. Part VI (Chapters LI - LX, 242K)
    7. Part VII (Concluding Remarks, 17K)

Short Stories

1. "Sketches among the Poor, No. 1" (7K, 18 March 1996)
2. "Clopton Hall" (17K, 7 September 1997)
3. "Libbie Marsh's Three Eras" (61K, 30 May 1997)
4. "The Sexton's Hero" (22K, 15 December 1995)
5. "Christmas Storms and Sunshine" (24K, 30 April 1996)
6. "Hand and Heart" (41K, 1 July 1996)
7. "The Last Generation in England" (22K, 24 July 1997)
8. "Lizzie Leigh" (68K, 12 November 1995)
9. "The Well of Pen-Morfa" (48K, 8 April 1996)
10. "The Heart of John Middleton" (51K, 18 November 1995)
11. "Mr Harrison's Confessions" (164K, 2 August 1997)
12. "Disappearances" (26K, 1 September 1997)
13. "The Deserted Mansion" (12K, 30 September 1997)
14. "Bessy's Troubles at Home" (41K, 24 June 1996)
15. "The Shah's English Gardener" (33K, 26 November 1996)
16. "The Old Nurse's Story" (49K, 2 December 1995)
17. "Cumberland Sheep Shearers" (43K, 8 July 1996)
18. "Bran" (6K, 3 March 2002)
19. "Morton Hall" (90K, 3 June 1997)
20. "Traits and Stories of the Huguenots" (34K, 13 September 1997)
21. "My French Master" (51K, 6 March 1996)
22. "The Squire's Story" (35K, 8 December 1995)
23. "The Scholar's Story" (12K, 3 March 2002)
24. "Uncle Peter" (82K, 15 October 1996)
25. "Modern Greek Songs" (43K, 16 September 1997)
26. "Company Manners" (51K, 26 September 1997)
27. "An Accursed Race" (51K, 9 July 1996)
28. "A Visit To Eton" (11K, 9 November 1996)
29. "A Fear for the Future" (22K, 1 February 1997)
30. "Martha Preston" (29K, 3 March 2002)
31. "Half a Lifetime Ago" (99K, 19 June 1997)
32. "The Poor Clare" (137K, 24 July 1997)
33. "The Doom of the Griffiths" (79K, 15 July 1996)
34. "Right at Last" (48K, 28 November 1996)
35. "The Manchester Marriage" (61K, 24 November 1995)
36. "The Half-Brothers" (26K, 3 November 1995)
37. "Lois the Witch" (204K, 13 June 1997)
38. "The Crooked Branch" (100K, 10 June 1997)
39. "Curious if True" (36K, 29 April 1996)
40. "The Grey Woman" (127K, 6 June 1997)
41. "Six Weeks at Heppenheim" (82K, 28 March 1996)
42. "Shams" (30K, 1 September 1996)
43. "An Italian Institution" (26K, 19 September 1997)
44. "The Cage at Cranford" (28K, 4 July 1997)
45. "French Life" (162K, 30 September 1997)
46. "Crowley Castle" (80K, 3 June 1997)
47. "Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family" (68K, 25 March 1997)
48. "Two Fragments of Ghost Stories" (14K, 17 July 1996)

Miscellany

The Elizabeth Gaskell Page (List of her works)

Mrs. Gaskell by Samuel Laurence (1864)

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