The Last Generation in England

The Last Generation in England is a non-fiction article by Elizabeth Gaskell, published in the American Sartain's Union Magazine in July 1849, relating memories of a small country town in the generation prior to her own. As such, it is seen as the real-life background for her novel Cranford. Feeling she was living through a time of great and rapid change, she was inspired to write it by reading that a history of English domestic life had once been considered by the author Thomas Southey.

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Novels
Short story collections
  • The Moorland Cottage (1850)
  • The Old Nurse's Story (1852)
  • Lizzie Leigh (1855)
  • 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