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A supplement to Jeffrey Egan Welch's 1977 secondary bibliography of sources published 1929-75 relating to Victorian writer Gaskell (1810-65). Cites and describes 339 works of bibliography, biography, correspondence, criticism, and theses. Also lists recent editions of Gaskell's work. Bases on Weyant's 1992 master's thesis. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Description
Identifies biographies, newly discovered correspondence, critical works, and other bibliographies. An extensive subject index provides easy access to 350 entries.

About the Author
Nancy S. Weyant (BA, American University; MSLS, Wayne State University; MA, Bucknell University) is currently Coordinator of Reference Services at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of "A Decade of Creativity and Critical Reception: A May Sarton Bibliography" in That Great Sanity: Critical Essays on May Sarton (1992) and "Jacqueline Rose: A Bibliography" in Why War? (1993). While employed at Bucknell University, she edited registers of Bucknell's manuscript collections of W.B. Yeats, William Morris, D.H. Lawrence, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She has taught a course on the History of the Book at Clarion University's School of Library Science and for Bucknell University's Elderhostle program.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Critical interest in Elizabeth Gaskell has expanded significantly in recent years. This extensively annotated bibliography builds on the work of previous bibliographers, identifying biographies, newly discovered correspondence, critical works, and other bibliographies published between 1976-1991. In her introduction, Ms. Weyant comments on the growing interest in Gaskell's short fiction, the discovery of previously unpublished correspondence (which contributes steadily to scholars' knowledge and understanding of Ms. Gaskell, the woman and the writer) and the impact of feminist criticism on Gaskell scholarship. As further evidence of a renewed interest in Elizabeth Gaskell and her rightful place as a central figure in the Victorian canon, Weyant identifies new editions of Gaskell's novels and short stories which were published during the 15-year period covered. This bibliography includes a list of masters and honors theses to demonstrate the curricular interest in Gaskell. An extensive subject index provides for easy access to the some 350 entries.

Author Biography: Nancy S. Weyant (BA, American University; MSLS, Wayne State University; MA, Bucknell University) is currently Coordinator of Reference Services at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of "A Decade of Creativity and Critical Reception: A May Sarton Bibliography" in That Great Sanity: Critical Essays on May Sarton (1992) and "Jacqueline Rose: A Bibliography" in Why War? (1993). While employed at Bucknell University, she edited registers of Bucknell's manuscript collections of W.B. Yeats, William Morris, D.H. Lawrence, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She has taught a course on the History ofthe Book at Clarion University's School of Library Science and for Bucknell University's Elderhostle program.

FROM THE CRITICS

Choice

...a superbly annotated retrospective bibliography...Detailed, lucid annotations enable undergraduates, graduate students, and professors seeking a quick overview of recent scholarship to evaluate items before seeking full text criticism....highly recommended..

Nineteenth-Century Literature

...indispensable for Gaskellites..

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