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In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific contributor until 1863. Her fictional contributions feature strong female characters and have a darker tone than her previous works, reflecting the fashion for Gothic fiction of the 1860s and her travels in Europe. They include two of her best known shorter works: Lois the Witch, a heartfelt story of a young English girl who becomes of a victim of the Salem witch trials, and The Grey Woman, a powerful tale of a deceived wife's flight from her husband, a nobleman who turns out to be a leader of the French 'chauffeurs'. Two of Gaskell's most complex family sagas were thinly disguised as Christmas Ghost stories: The Ghost in the Garden Room (later, The Crooked Branch) and How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle. The Cage at Cranford is a short reprise of Gaskell's Cranford stories. Of the two documentary pieces, Select Committee on French Songs (attributed to Gaskell in 2015) appears here for the first time in a collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's work. (Phil Benson)
- Text source (only read from this text!):
Lois the Witch, Part the First - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005756462&view=1up&seq=574
Lois the Witch, Part the Second - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005756462&view=1up&seq=597
Lois the Witch, Part the Third 1 - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005756462&view=1up&seq=619
Lois the Witch, Part the Third 2 - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005756462&view=1up&seq=627
The Ghost in the Garden Room - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005756462&view=1up&seq=1239
The Grey Woman, Portion the First - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005890329&view=1up&seq=934
The Grey Woman, Portion the Second - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005890329&view=1up&seq=955
The Grey Woman, Portion the Third - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005890329&view=1up&seq=981
Select Committee on French Songs, Sitting the First - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0007706294&view=1up&seq=454
Select Committee on French Songs, Sitting the Second - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0007706294&view=1up&seq=567
An Italian Institution - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106014328485&view=1up&seq=103
The Cage at Cranford - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106014328485&view=1up&seq=966
How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106014328485&view=1up&seq=1218 - Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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[*] Project Code: tYIWaj70
[*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): ( Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell
[*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 13
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
[*]Original publication date (if known): 1859-63
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Genres for the project: Short Stories/Single Author Collections
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Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863)
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