Twelfth Impression (Second Edition). With a Preface.
Large post 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
The Upton Letters.
DAILY CHRONICLE.—‘If anyone supposes that the art of letter-writing is dead, this volume will prove the contrary.... Altogether this is a curiously intimate and very pathetic revelation.’
DAILY NEWS.—‘Such charming letters.... The author writes with that intimacy of self-revelation which is the secret of charm in correspondence.’
London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
‘Mrs. Gaskell has done what neither I nor other female writers in France can accomplish—she has written novels which excite the deepest interest in men of the world, and yet which every girl will be the better for reading.’—GEORGE SAND.
NEW EDITION
OF THE
WORKS OF MRS. GASKELL
IN EIGHT VOLUMES. Crown 8vo. Cut Edges. Cloth, Gilt Top. Price 4s. 6d. net each,
THE ‘KNUTSFORD’ EDITION.
With an Introduction to each Volume, in addition to a Biographical Introduction in the First Volume by Dr. A. W. WARD, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, who has received the kind assistance of the Misses GASKELL.
EACH VOLUME CONTAINS A FRONTISPIECE IN PHOTOGRAVURE, one of these being the Portrait of Mrs. Gaskell by G. Richmond, R.A., and another an unpublished Portrait from a drawing by Samuel Laurence. The Edition will also contain other Illustrations and a Facsimile MS.
The Works are arranged as far as possible in Chronological Order. They include Several hitherto Unprinted Contributions to Periodicals, together with Two New Poems, and Some Unpublished Fragments of Stories.
CONTENTS OF THE VOLUMES:
1. MARY BARTON, and other Tales.
2. CRANFORD, and other Tales.
3. RUTH, and other Tales.
4. NORTH AND SOUTH.
5. MY LADY LUDLOW, and other Tales.
6. SYLVIA’S LOVERS, &c.
7. COUSIN PHILLIS, A DARK NIGHT’S WORK, &c.
8. WIVES AND DAUGHTERS.