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Book SynopsisIdentifies biographies, newly discovered correspondence, critical works, and other bibliographies. An extensive subject index provides easy access to 350 entries.
Trade Review...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. * CHOICE *
...indispensable for Gaskellites. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *
...an indispensable guide for the Gaskell student or scholar and a book which should be available in the library of any academic institution pursuing Victorian literary studies. * s *
In each of the first three sections the individual entries are accompanied by very helpful descriptive summaries. This indeed is one of the most useful features of the volume, and will be of considerable assistance to workers in the field. It also allows us to see how fashions are changing in Gaskell criticism....This is a very welcome up-dating of Gaskell bibliography: all the more welcome, in fact, because it has been so unpretentiously and yet so effectively done. * The Gaskell Society Journal *
