MRS. GASKELL

	PAGE
Portrait of Mrs. Gaskell, by George Richmond, R.A.	[Frontispiece]
Introduction	[ix]
Calendar of Principal Events in Mrs. Gaskell’s Life	[xxxiii]
I. Poetry	[1]
Sketches among the Poor. No. 1.
Articles and Sketches	[8]
Clopton Hall.
A Greek Wedding.
Tenir un Salon.
On Furnishing, Conversation, and Games.
On Books.
French Receptions.
Description of Duncombe (Knutsford).
The Sexton’s Hero.
Advice to a Young Doctor.
The Choice of Odours.
St. Valentine’s Day.
Whit-Monday in Dunham Park.
II. Novels	[59]
[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.
John Barton’s Confession.
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.
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.
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	[317]
[AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL]
Preface to Mary Barton.
Edinburgh Society in 1830.
Cumberland Sheep-shearers.
My French Master.
Introduction to Mabel Vaughan.
[BIOGRAPHICAL]
Description of Charlotte Brontë.
Patrick Brontë’s Views on the Management of his Children.
Visit to Charlotte Brontë at Haworth Vicarage.
On Reviewers.
The Marriage of Charlotte Brontë.
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.
Do the Right whatever the Consequences.
Appreciations and Testimonia	[371]
Bibliography	[379]
Iconography	[387]

MRS. GASKELL

Contents