My Lady Ludlow

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My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words in the Project Gutenburg text) by Elizabeth Gaskell. It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end.

It recounts the daily lives of the widowed Lady Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo, and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business, Mr Horner, and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for.

With Cranford, The Last Generation in England and Mr Harrison's Confessions, it was adapted for TV in 2007 as Cranford.

[edit] External links

Uglow, Jenny. "Band of women", The Guardian, 3 November 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-06.
Susan Colon, Professional Frontiers in Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow (Women's Writing, Volume 13, Issue 3 October 2006 , pages 475 - 494)

[edit] Online texts

My Lady Ludlow, available at Project Gutenberg.

v • d • e Works by Elizabeth Gaskell

Novels:	Mary Barton (1848) • Cranford (1851–3) • Ruth (1853) • North and South (1854–5) • Sylvia's Lovers (1863) • Wives and Daughters (1865)

Short story collections:	The Moorland Cottage (1850) • The Old Nurse's Story (1852) • Lizzie Leigh (1855) • My Lady Ludlow (1859) • Round the Sofa (1859) • Lois the Witch (1861) • A Dark Night's Work (1863)

Short stories (partial):	"Christmas Storms and Sunshine" (1848) • "Mr. Harrison's Confessions" (1851) • "The Squire's Story" (1853) • "Half a Life-time Ago" (1855) • "An Accursed Race" (1855) • "The Manchester Marriage" (1858) • "The Half-brothers" (1859) • "The Grey Woman" (1861) • "Cousin Phillis" (1864)

Non-fiction:	The Last Generation in England (1849) • The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)