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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Other Titles in the Art of the Novella Series
Illuminations for The Poor Clare
1. Publication History
Illustration: Title page of Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Gaskell (1859).
Charles Dickens as Editor—Selection from Annette B. Hopkins’s “Dickens and Mrs. Gaskell.”.
2. The Great Hunger
Illustration: Ireland during the famine (nineteenth century).
Illustration: Anonymous editorial in The Guardian (1821).
Illustration: Announcement in The Gardeners’ Chronicle (1845).
3. Lancashire
Illustration: Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire (fourteenth century).
Starkey Manor-house—Excerpt from The Poor Clare.
Illustration: Barnoldswick to Weets Hill, Lancashire (present day).
4. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Family Life
Illustration: “Elizabeth Gaskell” by George Richmond (1851).
On Visiting the Grave of My Stillborn Little Girl—Poem by Elizabeth Gaskell.
“Refuge in invention”—Excerpt from Elizabeth Gaskell’s preface to Mary Barton.
Illustration: The interior of 42 Plymouth Grove.
“And we’ve got a house”—Letter to Eliza Fox, April 1850.
Illustration: The drawing room at 42 Plymouth Grove.
Illustration: “Elizabeth Gaskell,” photographer unknown (1864).
5. Gaskell’s Literary Friendships
Illustration: Newspaper review of Mary Barton (1848).
Illustration: Envelope from Thomas Carlyle’s letter to Elizabeth Gaskell (1848).
Illustration: “Charles Eliot Norton” by J. E. Purdy (1903).
We Reached Rome—Letter by Gaskell’s daughter.
Ache of Yearning—Letter to Charles Eliot Norton.
What I Did Believe—Letter to Charles Eliot Norton.
A Relationship with George Eliot—Selected correspondence.
Wordsworth Walked—From a letter to John Forster.
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Friendship with Charlotte Brontë—Selected correspondence.
Illustration: Letter from Brontë to Constantin Heger (1844).
Reading I: “The Heart of John Middleton” by Elizabeth Gaskell, under the pen name Cotton Mather.
Reading II: “An Accursed Race” by Elizabeth Gaskell.
6. The Poor Clares
A Picture of the Virgin—Excerpt from The Poor Clare.
Illustration: “The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin” by Niklas Stoer (ca. 1500).
Illustration: “The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin,” attributed to Master of the Passion (sixteenth century).
Illustration: The Virgin, with writing in Nahuatl (sixteenth century).
Illustration: “Madonna and Child with the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin” by an anonymous member of the Flemish School (sixteenth century).
Illustration: “Madonna of Misercordia” by Boccati, Giovanni di Permatteo de Camerino (fifteenth century).
Order of the Poor Clares—Selection from the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica.
The Order of Poor Ladies—Selections from Father Marianus Fiege’s The Princess of Poverty: Saint Clare of Assisi and the Order of Poor Ladies.
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