*Life In Manchester. 2 vols. [as Cotton Mather Mills] (short stories) 1848

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life. 2 vols. [published anonymously] (novel) 1848

†Cranford [published anonymously] (novel) 1851-53

Ruth. 3 vols. [published anonymously] (novel) 1853

Lizzie Leigh and Other Tales [published anonymously] (short stories) 1855

North and South. 2 vols. [published anonymously] (novel) 1855

The Life of Charlotte Brontë (biography) 1857

My Lady Ludlow (novella) 1858

Round the Sofa. 2 vols. (short stories) 1859

Right at Last and Other Tales (short stories) 1860

Cousin Phillis: A Tale (novella) 1863

Sylvia's Lovers. 3 vols. (novel) 1863

‡Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story (unfinished novel) 1864-66

The Grey Woman and Other Tales (short stories) 1865

The Works of Mrs. Gaskell. 8 vols. (novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, essays, sketches, and biography) 1906-11

The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell (letters) 1966

*Contains the short stories “Libbie Marsh's Three Eras,” “The Sexton's Hero,” and “Christmas Storms and Sunshine.”

†This work was originally published as a series of sketches in the journal Household Works in 1851-53. A complete edition was published in 1853.

‡This work was originally published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine from August 1864 to January 1866. A complete two-volume edition was published in 1866.