Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Cranford
Appendix A: Pre- and Post-Cranford Texts
- Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Last Generation in England” (1849)
- Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Cage at Cranford” (1863)
Appendix B: Cranford Correspondence
- Letters of Charles Dickens (1850–53)
- Letters of Mrs. Gaskell (1851–65)
- Letters of Charlotte Brontë (1852–53)
Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews and Tributes
- From [Henry Forgehill Chorley], The Athenaeum (25 June 1853)
- The Examiner (23 July 1853)
- Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (September 1853)
- “A Few Words on Social Philosophy,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (April 1858)
- “Mrs. Gaskell,” The Nation (7 December 1865)
Appendix D: Industrialization and Moral Responsibility
- From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
- From Maria Edgeworth, The Parent’s Assistant or Stories for Children (1796?)
- From Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848)
Appendix E: Class, Conduct, and Etiquette
- From Charles Day, Hints on Etiquette and the Usages of Society with a Glance at Bad Habits (1836)
- From Anon., Etiquette for the Ladies (1837)
Appendix F: Economies Political and Domestic
- From Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Women of England (1839)
- From Eliza Acton, Modern Cookery in All its Branches (1845)
- From Isabella Beeton, Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861)
- From J.S. Mill, Principles of Political Economy (1848)
- From Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1823)
- From George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life (1857)
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