Volume Editors: Valerie Sanders (Elizabeth Gaskell), Aileen Christianson & Shelia McIntosh (The Carlyles), Simon Grimble (John Ruskin), Series Editor Ralph Pite.

• Introduction 1. Letter from Geraldine Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 2. A. W. Ward, Introduction to Mary Barton 3. Letters from Charlotte Bronte 4. Margaret Oliphant a) ‘Modern Novelists - Great and Small’, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine b) The Victorian Age of English Literature 5. Charles Eliot Norton, Letters of Charles Eliot Norton 6. Henry James a) William Wetmore Story and His Friends b) Wives and Daughters’, Nation 7. Obituary Reviews of Gaskell a) [David Masson], ‘Mrs Gaskell’, Macmillan's Magazine b) Anon., ‘Mrs Gaskell’, Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine 8. [Harriet Parr], ‘The Works of Mrs Gaskell’, British Quarterly Review 9. G. B. S. [G. B. Smith], ‘Mrs Gaskell and Her Novels’, Cornhill Magazine 10. Eliza Bridell-Fox and Mrs Andrew Crosse a) Eliza Bridell-Fox, ‘Memories’, Girl's Own Paper b) Mrs Andrew Crosse, Red-Letter Days of M y Life 11. L. B. Walford, Twelve English Authoresses 12. Catherine J. Hamilton, Women Writers: Their Works and Ways 13. Mat Hompes, ‘Mrs Gaskell’, Gentleman's Magazine 14. Edna Lyall, ‘Mrs Gaskell’ in Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign 15. Eliza Lynn Linton a) Letter to Mrs Gedge b) M y Literary Life: Reminiscences of Dickens, Thackeray; George Eliot 16. Mrs Richmond Ritchie, ‘Mrs Gaskell’, Blackstick Papers, No. 11, Cornhill Magazine 17. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, ‘Mrs Gaskell’ (1906) in Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge 18. Margaret J. Shaen, Memorials of Two Sisters: Susanna and Catherine Winkworth 19. Lewis Melville, ‘The Centenary of Mrs Gaskell’, Nineteenth Century and After 20. The Cornhill Magazine a) Sarah A. Tooley, ‘The Centenary of Mrs Gaskell’ b) A. W. Ward, ‘In Memoriam: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell’ 21. Mrs Ellis H. Chadwick, Mrs Gaskell: Haunts, Homes, and Stories 22. Virginia Woolf, ‘Mrs Gaskell’, The Times Literary Supplement.