Elizabeth Gaskell

John McVeagh

Table of Important Dates; Preliminary Remarks; Plan of Analysis; Novels of Social Criticism; 1 Mary Barton, ch. 6 2 Mary Barton, ch. 10 3 North and South, ch. 17 4 North and South, ch. 20 5 North and South, ch. 37 7 Ruth, ch. 22 8 Ruth, ch. 32; ‘The Life of Charlotte Brontë’; 1 The Life of Charlotte Brontë, ch. 2 2 The Life of Charlotte Brontë, ch. 17 3 The Life of Charlotte Brontë, ch. 28 4 The Life of Charlotte Brontë, ch. 12 5 The Life of Charlotte Brontë, ch. 19; Novels of Country Life; 14 Ruth, ch. 23 15 Ruth, ch. 13 16 Cranford, ch I 17 My Lady Ludlow, ch 14 18 Cousin Phillis, part III 19 Wives and Daughters, ch. 6 20 Sylvia’s Lovers, ch. 28; The Challenge of Life; 21 Mary Barton, ch. 3 22 Sylvia’s Lovers, ch. 30 23 Cranford, ch. 14 24 Wives and Daughters, ch. 10 25 The Life of Charlotte Brontë, ch. 16; The Human Response; 26 Mary Barton, ch. 34 27 Mary Barton, ch. 37 28 North and South, ch. 46 29 Wives and Daughters, ch. 44 30 Sylvia’s Lovers, ch. 45; Narrative Manner; 31 The Letters of Mrs Gaskell, pp. 540-2 32 Mary Barton, ch. I 33 Sylvia’s Lovers, ch. 9 34 Mary Barton, ch. 6 35 Mary Barton, ch. 6 36 North and South, ch. 17 37 Wives and Daughters, ch. 45 38 Ruth, ch. 19; Limitations and Achievement; 39 Sylvia’s Lovers, ch. 12 40 Wives and Daughters, ch. 23 41 Mary Barton, ch. 20; Select Bibliography