In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. She produced work of great variety and scope in the course of a highly successful writing career that lasted for about twenty years from the mid-1840s to her unexpected death in 1865. The essays in this Companion draw on recent advances in biographical and bibliographical studies of Gaskell and cover the range of her impressive and varied output as a writer of novels, biography, short stories, and letters. The volume, which features well-known scholars in the field of Gaskell studies, focuses throughout on her narrative versatility and her literary responses to the social, cultural, and intellectual transformations of her time. This Companion will be invaluable for students and scholars of Victorian literature, and includes a chronology and guide to further reading.

1. Introduction Jill L. Matus 2. The life and letters of E. C. Gaskell Deirdre d묨lbertis 3. Mary Barton and North and South Jill L. Matus 4. Cranford and Ruth Audrey Jaffe 5. Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bront?Linda Peterson 6. Sylvia's Lovers and other historical fiction Marion Shaw 7. Cousin Phillis, Wives and Daughters, and modernity Linda K. Hughes 8. Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter pieces Shirley Foster 9. Gaskell, gender, and the family Patsy Stoneman 10. Gaskell and social transformation Nancy Henry 11. Unitarian dissent John Chapple 12. Gaskell then and now Susan Hamilton Guide to further reading Natalie Rose Index

Jill L. Matus is Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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