[Gutenberg 57627] • Mrs. Gaskell by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

MRS. GASKELL Contents Introduction

I II

Calendar of Principal Events in Mrs. Gaskell’s Life I

Poetry

Sketches Among the Poor

Articles and Sketches

Clopton Hall A Greek Wedding Tenir un Salon On Furnishing, Conversation, and Games On Books French Receptions Description of Duncombe A Race for Life Across the Quicksands in Morecambe Bay Advice to a Young Doctor The Choice of Odours St. Valentine’s Day Whit-Monday in Dunham Park.

II Novels

Social Questions

Poor versus Rich Working Men’s Petition to Parliament, 1839 Meeting Between the Masters and their Employees John Barton Joins the Chartists The Trial for Murder causes Mary Barton to Confess her Love for the Prisoner at the Bar John Barton’s Confession of the Murder of young Mr. Carson Job Legh Defends John Barton A Manchester Strike in the “Hungry Forties” North versus South Nicholas Higgins Discusses Religion with the Retired Clergyman

Humorous

The New Mamma—Mrs. Gibson Calf-Love Heart Trouble The Young Doctor’s Dilemma Family Prayer at Hope Farm Miss Galindo Nearly Becomes an Authoress London as John Barton Saw It Major Jenkyns Visits Cranford Mrs. Gibson Visits Lady Cumnor Mrs. Gibson’s Little Dinner Party A Visit to an Old Bachelor Marriage A Love Affair of Long Ago The Cat and the Lace Small Economies Elegant Economy Sally tells of her Sweethearts Sally Makes Her Will Betty’s Advice to Phillis Practical Christianity Betty Gives Paul Manning a Lecture

Descriptive

Green Heys Fields A Lancashire Tea-party in the Early Forties Babby’s Journey from London to Manchester A Dissenting Minister’s Household The Chapel at Eccleston The Dawn of a Gala Day A Manchester Mill on Fire “In Pursuit of the John Cropper” Hobbies Among the Lancashire Poor The Press-gang in Yorkshire during the latter part of the Eighteenth Century The Sailor’s Funeral at Monkshaven A Press-gang Riot at Monkshaven (Whitby) A Game of Blind-man’s-buff Philip Hepburn Leaves the New Year’s Party Kinraid’s Return to Monkshaven Roger Hamley’s Farewell Cousin Phillis The Dawn of Love

III Stories

Autobiographical

Mary Barton Edinburgh Society in 1830 Cumberland Sheep-shearers My French Master The Interchange of Novels between English and American Authors

Biographical

Description of Charlotte Brontë Patrick Brontë’s Views on the Management of his Children Visit to Charlotte Brontë at Haworth Vicarage On Reviewers A Proposal of Marriage Charlotte Brontë’s Funeral

Shorter Extracts

Old Maids Mercy for the Erring A Clergyman’s Soliloquy My Lady Ludlow’s Tea-party The Foxglove A Tonic for Sorrow A New Commandment Virtue has its own Reward Thomas Wright the Prison Philanthropist of Manchester Do the Right whatever the Consequences

Appreciations and Testimonia

Professor Minto Dr. A. W. Ward Susanna Winkworth Thomas Seccombe Lady Ritchie Frederick Greenwood Miss Catherine J. Hamilton Richard D. Graham Edna Lyall G. Barnett Smith Clement K. Shorter

Bibliography

Iconography