A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell's place in the company of Victorian England's finest novelists. Preface vii The Text of North and South Volume I 3(186) Volume II 189(208) Contexts (1850-1900) 397(100) LETTERS 399(18) Elizabeth Gaskell From Letters 399(7) Charles Dickens From Letters 406(7) Other Contemporary Correspondence 413(4) CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS 417(80) The Spectator From New Novels (31 March 1855) 417(1) Henry Fothergill Chorley The Athenaeum (7 April 1855) 418(2) Manchester Weekly Advertiser From Unsigned Review (14 April 1855) 420(1) Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (May 1855) 421(2) Emile Montegut Revue des Deux Mondes (1 October 1855) 423(4) Graham's Magazine From Review of New Books (June 1855) 427(1) Elizabeth Gaskell Lizzie Leigh 427(26) Friedrich Engels [Manchester at Mid-Century] 453(2) [The Preston Strike] 455(7) William Rathbone Greg The Claims of Labour 462(7) W.E. Forster Strikes and Lock-Outs 469(12) Bessie Rayner Parkes The Condition of Working Women in England and France 481(9) Henry Bristow Wilson [The Clergyman and His Conscience] 490(7) Criticism 497(84) Louis Cazamian Mrs Gaskell and Christian Interventionism: North and South 499(6) A.W. Ward [North and South in Context] 505(6) Elizabeth Haldane [Elizabeth Gaskell and Florence Nightingale] 511(3) Raymond Williams [North and South and the structure of feeling] 514(1) Aina Rubenius Factory Work for Women 515 Dorothy W. Collin The Composition of Mrs. Gaskell's North and South 519(4) W.A. Craik [The Topography of North and South] 523(8) Rosemarie Bodenheimer North and South: A Permanent State of Change 531(16) Jo Pryke The Treatment of Political Economy in North and South 547(12) Hilary M. Schor [The Languages of Industrialization] 559(7) Terence Wright Women, Death and Integrity: North and South 566(15) Elizabeth Gaskell: A Chronology 581(2) Selected Bibliography 583