Secret-Keeping: Elizabeth Gaskell
Rosemarie Bodenheimer, 16 August 2007
The new Pickering and Chatto edition of the complete works of Elizabeth Gaskell arrived just in time to mark a century since the publication of the previous standard text, A.W. Ward’s Knutsford Edition of 1906. In the meantime, Gaskell has been transformed from a charming woman who wrote wry nostalgic sketches to a major figure in Victorian studies.
Raymond Williams jump-started this...