| 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 |
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