Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 1

Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin

Valerie Sanders, Aileen Christianson, Simon Grimble, Sheila A Mcintosh, Ralph Pite, John Mullan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781138754607
• eBook ISBN: 9781040129357
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton (1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction of Manchester working-class life. Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District. Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle moved in the opposite direction - from rural Scotland to London's Cheyne Walk. This title focuses on writers for whom 'the centre' was a pressing concern. The three volumes that comprise a set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary persons: John Ruskin, Elzabeth Gaskell and the Carlyles.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Frontmatter
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• General Introduction
• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Chronology
• Copy Texts
• Abbreviations
• 1. Letter from Geraldine Tewsburv to Tane Welsh Carlvle
• 2. A.W. Ward, Introduction to Mary Barton
• 3. Letters from Charlotte Brontè
• 4. Margaret Oliphant
• 5. Charles Eliot Norton, Letters of Charles Eliot Norton
• 6. Henry James
• 7. Obituary Reviews of Gaskell
• 9. G. B. S. [G. B. Smith], ‘Mrs Gaskell and Her Novels’, Cornhill Magazine
• 10. Eliza Bridell-Fox and Mrs Andrew Crosse
• 11. L. Β. Walford, Twelve English Authoresses
• 12. Catherine J. Hamilton, Women Writers: Their Works and Ways
• 13. Mat Hompes, ‘Mrs Gaskell’, Gentleman’s Magazine
• 14. Edna Lyall, ‘Mrs Gaskell’ in Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign
• 15. Eliza Lynn Linton
• 16. Mrs Richmond Ritchie, ‘Mrs Gaskell’, Blackstick Papers, No. 11, Cornhill Magazine
• 17. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, ‘Mrs Gaskell’ (1906) in Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge
• 18. Margaret J. Shaen, Memorials of Two Sisters: Susanna and Catherine Winkworth
• 19. Lewis Melville, ‘The Centenary of Mrs Gaskell’, Nineteenth Century and After
• 20. The Comhill Magazine
• 21. Mrs Ellis H. Chadwick, Mrs Gaskell: Haunts, Homes, and Stories
• 22. Virginia Woolf, ‘Mrs Gaskell’, The Times Literary Supplement
• Notes