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The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell
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Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell was known for her detailed portraits of influential English figures (such as Charlotte Bronte), and novels of Victorian life. Collected here are over 20 of her works. A table of contents is included to help you quickly find each work.
An Accursed Race
Cousin Phillis
Cranford
Curious, if True
A Dark Night's Work
Doom of the Griffiths
French Life
The Grey Woman and other Tales
Half a Life-time Ago
The Half-Brothers
Life of Charlotte Bronte
Lizzie Leigh
Lois the Witch
Mary Barton
The Moorland Cottage
My Lady Ludlow
North and South
The Poor Clare
Round the Sofa
Ruth
Sylvia's Lovers
Uncle Peter
Wives and Daughters
Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell was known for her detailed portraits of influential English figures (such as Charlotte Bronte), and novels of Victorian life. Collected here are over 20 of her works. A table of contents is included to help you quickly find each work.
An Accursed Race
Cousin Phillis
Cranford
Curious, if True
A Dark Night's Work
Doom of the Griffiths
French Life
The Grey Woman and other Tales
Half a Life-time Ago
The Half-Brothers
Life of Charlotte Bronte
Lizzie Leigh
Lois the Witch
Mary Barton
The Moorland Cottage
My Lady Ludlow
North and South
The Poor Clare
Round the Sofa
Ruth
Sylvia's Lovers
Uncle Peter
Wives and Daughters
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1,142 books3,763 followersElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature.
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September 17, 2019
North and South
CHAPTER 4. DOUBTS AND DIFFICULTIES
'Cast me upon some naked shore,
Where I may tracke
Only the print of some sad wracke,
If thou be there, though the seas roare,
I shall no gentler calm implore.'
HABINGTON.
[...]
'How different men were to women! Here was she disturbed and unhappy, because her instinct had made anything but a refusal impossible; while he, not many minutes after he had met with a rejection of what ought to have been the deepest, holiest proposal of his life, could speak as if briefs, success, and all its superficial consequences of a good house, clever and agreeable society, were the sole avowed objects of his desires. Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different, with a difference which she felt, on reflection, to be one that went low—deep down. Then she took it into her head that, after all, his lightness might be but assumed, to cover a bitterness of disappointment which would have been stamped on her own heart if she had loved and been rejected.'
CHAPTER 4. DOUBTS AND DIFFICULTIES
'Cast me upon some naked shore,
Where I may tracke
Only the print of some sad wracke,
If thou be there, though the seas roare,
I shall no gentler calm implore.'
HABINGTON.
[...]
'How different men were to women! Here was she disturbed and unhappy, because her instinct had made anything but a refusal impossible; while he, not many minutes after he had met with a rejection of what ought to have been the deepest, holiest proposal of his life, could speak as if briefs, success, and all its superficial consequences of a good house, clever and agreeable society, were the sole avowed objects of his desires. Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different, with a difference which she felt, on reflection, to be one that went low—deep down. Then she took it into her head that, after all, his lightness might be but assumed, to cover a bitterness of disappointment which would have been stamped on her own heart if she had loved and been rejected.'
August 25, 2024
Didn't real all in this edition, only filled in what I couldn't find elsewhere, or checked text against audio editions.
Bran (1850) read 12/26/2022 - poetry, history, france, war, mother and son.
Right at Last (1858) read 12/29/2022-12/31/2022 little tastes of early marriage, police and court systems.
Lois the Witch 1/1/2023-1/16/2023 17th century Old England and New England, Salem witch trials, presented as fictionalised history.
A Fear for the Future (1859?) read 8/1/2023. Reads like a letter to the editor rather than a story. It’s from the view of a husband and father who’s brought his family of six sons from the country to London to find wives for them. The whole thing is him bemoaning the state of the young female population in that day to compared to when he was courting. I can only assume that Mrs. Gaskell was writing satire. And it’s funny how I can hear similar characters stating the same fears since then and up to this day.
The Deserted Mansion (1851) Read 8/1/2023. Spooky little tale. I was sure I’d read it before, and it turns out I had, from a librivox collection 2/5/2022, but I hadn’t marked it off my checklist.
Curious if True (1861), read 8/2/2023. Curiously delightful. I enjoyed the opening mention of archive research for family history. The defining characteristics of the story were fun to read without knowing what was coming so, spoilers:
The Grey Woman (1861), read 8/3/2023-8/5/2023. Interesting and unusual (to me) to have the setting in Germany. Starts in 1840s and then most of it is looking back to mid to late 18th century, references uncertainty of safety in Europe (due to revolutions and political machinations?). Being from the view of visitors (presumably English) to Germany and then relaying a story they heard/read of a German who went to France. Reminded me some of The Mysteries of Udolpho but less so as it went on. There was an exciting end with high class gangs, disguise, and woman helping woman, making a new life.
"Six weeks at Heppenheim" (1862), read 8/6/2023-8/11/2023 (?). Short story but slower. Interesting to have another story set in Germany and mentions some curious things (also curious to the English narrator) about the government controls over the grape harvest. The narrator/point of view character says it’s not about him, not his story, but it’s all from the view of his being an invalid in a German inn after he became ill on a walking holiday and when recovering becomes the confidante of his caretakers.
French Life, read 8/16/2023-9/2/2023
Apparently a travel narrative/journal by the author concerning a couple trips in the springs of 1862-1863 though she also names 1864 in the text, with two (young?) ladies Mary and Irene. Sort of everyday details mixed in with stories heard or read about high ranking people. The one at the end particularly reminded me of her story The Grey Woman, more terrible but also with reference to the justice system, and a group of women protecting a woman. Al this the author is relating from having readers in a book at the hotel. Then it ends suddenly with them apparently going to Italy.
An Italian Institution, read 9/4/2023 from Librivox collection Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863) read by Phil Benson (from whom I've listen to several Gaskell pieces by Librivox) who has a very pleasant voice and accent and seems to pronounce the bits of other languages well, too. This seems to be an essay, nonfiction on the the Camorra. I don't know how up to the minute this was when published, though from the French Life it appears Gaskell after France went to Italy, so maybe reporting/explaining what was experienced there. I think I've heard of the Camorra in Sherlock Holmes stories.
The Cage at Cranford (1863) read 9/5/2023 Librivox collection Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863) read by Phil Benson. This is the only story I know of aside from the original book Cranford that's actually set in Cranford. It like My Lady Ludlow, Mr. Harrison's Confessions, and The Moorland Cottage were used in Cranford (2007-2010). It's a nice little story, not quite as much as embarrassment on display as in the adaptation. In the story it's hearing a little of Jessie (Brown) Gordon again.
Crowley Castle (1863), read 9/8/2023-9/14/2023
Librivox collection Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863) read by Phil Benson.
Kind of an odd mix. Thought I was reminded of Wives and Daughters at the beginning. Some class and odd couple mixing. Some Frenchness. Maybe because I was listening and not closely I was confused by who was who. Then dramatic and tragic at the end.
Shams (1863), read 9/14/2023-
Reminds me of a A Fear for the Future (which in this edition follows it but I read earlier) being apparently nonfiction “paper” from a gentleman discussing domestic characters and fashions, but especially when he gets into how gentlemen and ladies should act and not mix up how the classes are educated thereby losing the distinction for gentle folk. Some of it is sensible and and sympathetic like the only socialising being big fancy dinner parties that no one actually enjoys, and favoring simple small weddings over a big production (which does make me think of our day, and I reckon this is about the time when big weddings started, inspired by Queen Victoria). It reminds me of An Old-Fashioned Girl
Clopton House (1840), read 9/15/2023. Very short, seems like it’s cut off in this edition as there’s unclosed quotes. Victorian Studies has an explanatory note which is about as long. The work is Gaskell’s first known and, as I assumed, a reminisce from her youth, which was given as part of a chapter on the house in a book on known places, and this house had (possible) connections to Shakespeare (she was at school in Stratford-on-Avon) and other historical persons.
Two Fragments of Ghost Stories, read 9/19/2023(?)-9/20/2023. First fragment definitely sounded like a ghost story and became a cliff hanger mid sentence. The second fragment did not yet show ghostliness though it was setting a good stage for a ghost story and again fell off mid sentence just when it was going to introduce a mystery.
A Dark Night's Work, read 9/28/2023-11/6/2023 (Librivox).
Name and situations at the beginning reminds me of Wives and Daughters but that came later. Later situations remind me of North and South. Audio by multiple readers of uneven quality.
Uncle Peter, read 10/4/2023 - 10/21/2023.
Beginning reminds me again of Wives and Daughters, of the Hamleys. Less so as it went on and I don’t know that it reminded me of any other Gaskell.
A Visit to Eton, read 12/12/2023.
Only 3 pages, male narrator relating a short, spur of the moment visit to Elton to show a friend. Makes me wonder if Mrs. Gaskell was relating a male friend’s story. It seems unlikely that women would even be allowed on the campus.
Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family (1857), read 12/13/2023-12/20/2023.
Apparently a real history, Sir Hugh Cholmley (Gaskell leaves out an L) did live around the English civil war. Didn't really take in the last more plotty part concerning that war, except that he was on the king's side and his family home was taken over and he and wife and children were spread about back and forth to the continent. Family home in Whitby.
Sylvia’s Lovers (1863), read 1/7/2024/8/6/2024-8/24/2024
For some reason I thought this might be a novella, but comparing page lengths, it's longer than most of Gaskell's work except Wives and Daughters.
I knew and yet am struck that Gaskell gives more attention to northern England than I have the impression that her contemporaries did. The last piece I read featured a historical family with house near Whitby, and this one seems like it starts out in that area, though it’s hard to find the locations existing on a modern map, if indeed it’s a real combination of places. I don't remember if most of Gaskell's work has dialect speech in it but maybe it's been awhile since I've read any before it appears in this one.
Was into the third chapter and paused, still in January. Started over on 8/6/2024 from Librivox audio. Chapter 2 with practical Molly and romantically named Sylvia reminds of Wives and Daughters with Molly and Cynthia. This comparison didn't last all that long. This Molly was still practically-minded, but they weren't rivals for a lover. Sylvia admired who she thought Molly would marry, and was prepared for her to do so, but then she married someone else. At first I didn't like Philip as he didn't seem to attend to Sylvia not wanting his attention. Then Hester's interest was introduced and she seems more like Molly Gibson (of W&D) and again made Sylvia seem like a rival, and again like Cynthia, but only in others' perceptions of her, Sylvia's character isn't really like Cynthia. Then getting Philip's views and wishes made him and Sylvia feel a bit like the reverse of Molly and Roger in W&D, with Philip like Molly and Sylvia as Roger.
As with much of Librivox's audio it's a bit hit or miss. Some readers sound like they might be from the area and the dialect speech sounds natural, many are kind of in the middle, it's awkward and doesn't flow but it doesn't sound bad, then one, reading Ch 12 part 2 is attempting accents and voices and moods but sounds overdone in the male vs. female and the accent sounds a bit midwestern, a bit Spanish, a bit Caribbean.
I liked Charley Kinraid at first, but more and more, from most characters' perspective and knowledge he has a confidence with women that he'll be liked and accepted, seems to be a flirt with many, and a heartbreaker. From the title I imagined at least three lovers, not just two, but then I'm only at chapter 17 out of 45. Again from the title Sylvia should last those many chapters, but from the warning story of "crazy Nancy" and William Coulson's sister, I fear it'll be a tragedy.
From ch 23 it takes a turn from Sylvia's lovers, but still connected to events mentioned and it becomes tragedy but not that expected.
I do think Philip was a bit dumb, when he started to get what he wanted, to expect that Sylvia would be happy in her willingness, especially when she's grieving, and only willing from economic and familiarity reasons. Philip is really inconsiderate when it comes to his happy day and the women in his life, he can't seem to see the grief and how he's taking advantage of others' care, putting words in others' mouths, and maybe Mrs. Robson for health reasons couldn't attend the wedding, but to have her moved between her homes, not by Sylvia, while they're gone, and to a new home that has bad associations for Mrs. Robson and Sylvia.
Historical occurrences had been named earlier, especially with the pressgang and mention of war with France but ch 38 it unusually goes right to the scene of battle, with exact dates and places named, in war with Napoleon.
The end makes it sound like a historical story that the author heard.
Not in this edition, found only on Librivox
Short Poetry Collection 220: On Visiting the Grave of My Stillborn Little Girl audio by Newgatenovelist, read 9/18/2023.
Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863):
Select Committee on French Songs: Sitting the First and Sitting the Second audio by Phil Benson, read 9/18/2023-9/19/2023. I lack context of much of the history and culture referenced, but it's intriguing and contains the original language (which to my untrained ear sounded well pronounced) and translations. The introduction sounds like it's similar to her Modern Greek Songs which was like a book review.
Bran (1850) read 12/26/2022 - poetry, history, france, war, mother and son.
Right at Last (1858) read 12/29/2022-12/31/2022 little tastes of early marriage, police and court systems.
Lois the Witch 1/1/2023-1/16/2023 17th century Old England and New England, Salem witch trials, presented as fictionalised history.
A Fear for the Future (1859?) read 8/1/2023. Reads like a letter to the editor rather than a story. It’s from the view of a husband and father who’s brought his family of six sons from the country to London to find wives for them. The whole thing is him bemoaning the state of the young female population in that day to compared to when he was courting. I can only assume that Mrs. Gaskell was writing satire. And it’s funny how I can hear similar characters stating the same fears since then and up to this day.
The Deserted Mansion (1851) Read 8/1/2023. Spooky little tale. I was sure I’d read it before, and it turns out I had, from a librivox collection 2/5/2022, but I hadn’t marked it off my checklist.
Curious if True (1861), read 8/2/2023. Curiously delightful. I enjoyed the opening mention of archive research for family history. The defining characteristics of the story were fun to read without knowing what was coming so, spoilers:
The Grey Woman (1861), read 8/3/2023-8/5/2023. Interesting and unusual (to me) to have the setting in Germany. Starts in 1840s and then most of it is looking back to mid to late 18th century, references uncertainty of safety in Europe (due to revolutions and political machinations?). Being from the view of visitors (presumably English) to Germany and then relaying a story they heard/read of a German who went to France. Reminded me some of The Mysteries of Udolpho but less so as it went on. There was an exciting end with high class gangs, disguise, and woman helping woman, making a new life.
"Six weeks at Heppenheim" (1862), read 8/6/2023-8/11/2023 (?). Short story but slower. Interesting to have another story set in Germany and mentions some curious things (also curious to the English narrator) about the government controls over the grape harvest. The narrator/point of view character says it’s not about him, not his story, but it’s all from the view of his being an invalid in a German inn after he became ill on a walking holiday and when recovering becomes the confidante of his caretakers.
French Life, read 8/16/2023-9/2/2023
Apparently a travel narrative/journal by the author concerning a couple trips in the springs of 1862-1863 though she also names 1864 in the text, with two (young?) ladies Mary and Irene. Sort of everyday details mixed in with stories heard or read about high ranking people. The one at the end particularly reminded me of her story The Grey Woman, more terrible but also with reference to the justice system, and a group of women protecting a woman. Al this the author is relating from having readers in a book at the hotel. Then it ends suddenly with them apparently going to Italy.
An Italian Institution, read 9/4/2023 from Librivox collection Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863) read by Phil Benson (from whom I've listen to several Gaskell pieces by Librivox) who has a very pleasant voice and accent and seems to pronounce the bits of other languages well, too. This seems to be an essay, nonfiction on the the Camorra. I don't know how up to the minute this was when published, though from the French Life it appears Gaskell after France went to Italy, so maybe reporting/explaining what was experienced there. I think I've heard of the Camorra in Sherlock Holmes stories.
The Cage at Cranford (1863) read 9/5/2023 Librivox collection Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863) read by Phil Benson. This is the only story I know of aside from the original book Cranford that's actually set in Cranford. It like My Lady Ludlow, Mr. Harrison's Confessions, and The Moorland Cottage were used in Cranford (2007-2010). It's a nice little story, not quite as much as embarrassment on display as in the adaptation. In the story it's hearing a little of Jessie (Brown) Gordon again.
Crowley Castle (1863), read 9/8/2023-9/14/2023
Librivox collection Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863) read by Phil Benson.
Kind of an odd mix. Thought I was reminded of Wives and Daughters at the beginning. Some class and odd couple mixing. Some Frenchness. Maybe because I was listening and not closely I was confused by who was who. Then dramatic and tragic at the end.
Shams (1863), read 9/14/2023-
Reminds me of a A Fear for the Future (which in this edition follows it but I read earlier) being apparently nonfiction “paper” from a gentleman discussing domestic characters and fashions, but especially when he gets into how gentlemen and ladies should act and not mix up how the classes are educated thereby losing the distinction for gentle folk. Some of it is sensible and and sympathetic like the only socialising being big fancy dinner parties that no one actually enjoys, and favoring simple small weddings over a big production (which does make me think of our day, and I reckon this is about the time when big weddings started, inspired by Queen Victoria). It reminds me of An Old-Fashioned Girl
Clopton House (1840), read 9/15/2023. Very short, seems like it’s cut off in this edition as there’s unclosed quotes. Victorian Studies has an explanatory note which is about as long. The work is Gaskell’s first known and, as I assumed, a reminisce from her youth, which was given as part of a chapter on the house in a book on known places, and this house had (possible) connections to Shakespeare (she was at school in Stratford-on-Avon) and other historical persons.
Two Fragments of Ghost Stories, read 9/19/2023(?)-9/20/2023. First fragment definitely sounded like a ghost story and became a cliff hanger mid sentence. The second fragment did not yet show ghostliness though it was setting a good stage for a ghost story and again fell off mid sentence just when it was going to introduce a mystery.
A Dark Night's Work, read 9/28/2023-11/6/2023 (Librivox).
Name and situations at the beginning reminds me of Wives and Daughters but that came later. Later situations remind me of North and South. Audio by multiple readers of uneven quality.
Uncle Peter, read 10/4/2023 - 10/21/2023.
Beginning reminds me again of Wives and Daughters, of the Hamleys. Less so as it went on and I don’t know that it reminded me of any other Gaskell.
A Visit to Eton, read 12/12/2023.
Only 3 pages, male narrator relating a short, spur of the moment visit to Elton to show a friend. Makes me wonder if Mrs. Gaskell was relating a male friend’s story. It seems unlikely that women would even be allowed on the campus.
Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family (1857), read 12/13/2023-12/20/2023.
Apparently a real history, Sir Hugh Cholmley (Gaskell leaves out an L) did live around the English civil war. Didn't really take in the last more plotty part concerning that war, except that he was on the king's side and his family home was taken over and he and wife and children were spread about back and forth to the continent. Family home in Whitby.
Sylvia’s Lovers (1863), read 1/7/2024/8/6/2024-8/24/2024
For some reason I thought this might be a novella, but comparing page lengths, it's longer than most of Gaskell's work except Wives and Daughters.
I knew and yet am struck that Gaskell gives more attention to northern England than I have the impression that her contemporaries did. The last piece I read featured a historical family with house near Whitby, and this one seems like it starts out in that area, though it’s hard to find the locations existing on a modern map, if indeed it’s a real combination of places. I don't remember if most of Gaskell's work has dialect speech in it but maybe it's been awhile since I've read any before it appears in this one.
Was into the third chapter and paused, still in January. Started over on 8/6/2024 from Librivox audio. Chapter 2 with practical Molly and romantically named Sylvia reminds of Wives and Daughters with Molly and Cynthia. This comparison didn't last all that long. This Molly was still practically-minded, but they weren't rivals for a lover. Sylvia admired who she thought Molly would marry, and was prepared for her to do so, but then she married someone else. At first I didn't like Philip as he didn't seem to attend to Sylvia not wanting his attention. Then Hester's interest was introduced and she seems more like Molly Gibson (of W&D) and again made Sylvia seem like a rival, and again like Cynthia, but only in others' perceptions of her, Sylvia's character isn't really like Cynthia. Then getting Philip's views and wishes made him and Sylvia feel a bit like the reverse of Molly and Roger in W&D, with Philip like Molly and Sylvia as Roger.
As with much of Librivox's audio it's a bit hit or miss. Some readers sound like they might be from the area and the dialect speech sounds natural, many are kind of in the middle, it's awkward and doesn't flow but it doesn't sound bad, then one, reading Ch 12 part 2 is attempting accents and voices and moods but sounds overdone in the male vs. female and the accent sounds a bit midwestern, a bit Spanish, a bit Caribbean.
I liked Charley Kinraid at first, but more and more, from most characters' perspective and knowledge he has a confidence with women that he'll be liked and accepted, seems to be a flirt with many, and a heartbreaker. From the title I imagined at least three lovers, not just two, but then I'm only at chapter 17 out of 45. Again from the title Sylvia should last those many chapters, but from the warning story of "crazy Nancy" and William Coulson's sister, I fear it'll be a tragedy.
From ch 23 it takes a turn from Sylvia's lovers, but still connected to events mentioned and it becomes tragedy but not that expected.
I do think Philip was a bit dumb, when he started to get what he wanted, to expect that Sylvia would be happy in her willingness, especially when she's grieving, and only willing from economic and familiarity reasons. Philip is really inconsiderate when it comes to his happy day and the women in his life, he can't seem to see the grief and how he's taking advantage of others' care, putting words in others' mouths, and maybe Mrs. Robson for health reasons couldn't attend the wedding, but to have her moved between her homes, not by Sylvia, while they're gone, and to a new home that has bad associations for Mrs. Robson and Sylvia.
Historical occurrences had been named earlier, especially with the pressgang and mention of war with France but ch 38 it unusually goes right to the scene of battle, with exact dates and places named, in war with Napoleon.
The end makes it sound like a historical story that the author heard.
Not in this edition, found only on Librivox
Short Poetry Collection 220: On Visiting the Grave of My Stillborn Little Girl audio by Newgatenovelist, read 9/18/2023.
Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863):
Select Committee on French Songs: Sitting the First and Sitting the Second audio by Phil Benson, read 9/18/2023-9/19/2023. I lack context of much of the history and culture referenced, but it's intriguing and contains the original language (which to my untrained ear sounded well pronounced) and translations. The introduction sounds like it's similar to her Modern Greek Songs which was like a book review.
March 9, 2022
(I read Mary Barton, but Goodreads couldn't come up with the individual version).
Oh how preachy Gaskell is! And the book is so so convoluted. Saying that, I can now sing its praises. The book was written in the late 1840s after what was a revolutionary time for millworkers in the north. Gaskell describes with sympathy their life of poverty and their struggles with hunger, housing and infant mortality. Her characters are well-drawn (though some are bare-bones caricatures), and the reader feels their struggles and their pain. The book is worth reading for the social issues and historical context, but be warned, it's a hard slog at times.
Oh how preachy Gaskell is! And the book is so so convoluted. Saying that, I can now sing its praises. The book was written in the late 1840s after what was a revolutionary time for millworkers in the north. Gaskell describes with sympathy their life of poverty and their struggles with hunger, housing and infant mortality. Her characters are well-drawn (though some are bare-bones caricatures), and the reader feels their struggles and their pain. The book is worth reading for the social issues and historical context, but be warned, it's a hard slog at times.
November 7, 2019
One of my favorite authors and a contemporary of Jane Austin and Charles Dickens. Great characters, imagery and stories.
June 15, 2011
Some of them I've already read. Early this a.m. I was reading Witch Lois. Sounded like the actual tale at Salem. Made me cry. 3/31--finished A Dark Night's Work. It also made me cry. Good story, though. The rest were great and they didn't make me cry.
February 9, 2013
Taken a long time to finish as I have read it over some time; a Victorian author so at times the language is old fashioned but despite this her stories are good.
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