Biographical materials
Literature
- Gaskell's literary relations: sources, influences, confluences
- Theme and subject
- Genre, mode, and style
- Characterization
- Image, symbol, and motif
- Setting and description
- Other Works by Gaskell
- Victorian authors
Social and political history
- Political themes and subjects (sitemap)
- Social history (sitemap)
- Gender matters
- Contrast of the Industrial North and Rural South
- juxtaposes the “companionate marriage plot” with discussion of political and social agency
- Masters and Men in North and South
- The role of the Working Class Woman in the Labor Strikes
- North and South and Contemporary Agricultural Workers
- Class Disparities and Linguistic Mannerisms in Gaskell and Dickens
- The Chartist trials, criminalized speech, Treason-Felony Act of 1848, and Mary Barton
- Gender Matters
- Victorian political history
- Victorian social history
Other cultural contexts (*** = sitemaps for major topics)
- Visual arts, including illustrations of her novels
- Religion: themes and contexts
- Economics***
- Victorian Science ***
Other resources
Created 6 August 2015