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In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific contributor until 1863. Her fictional contributions feature strong female characters and have a darker tone than her previous works, reflecting the fashion for Gothic fiction of the 1860s and her travels in Europe. They include two of her best known shorter works: Lois the Witch, a heartfelt story of a young English girl who becomes of a victim of the Salem witch trials, and The Grey Woman, a powerful tale of a deceived wife's flight from her husband, a nobleman who turns out to be a leader of the French 'chauffeurs'. Two of Gaskell's most complex family sagas were thinly disguised as Christmas Ghost stories: The Ghost in the Garden Room (later, The Crooked Branch) and How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle. The Cage at Cranford is a short reprise of Gaskell's Cranford stories. Of the two documentary pieces, Select Committee on French Songs (attributed to Gaskell in 2015) appears here for the first time in a collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's work. (Phil Benson)
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| 2 | | 1:11:51 |
| 3 | | 59:10 |
| 4 | | 54:28 |
| 5 | | 1:04:53 |
| 6 | | 54:15 |
| 7 | | 43:05 |
| 8 | | 54:24 |
| 9 | | 54:37 |
| 10 | | 42:04 |
| 11 | | 44:48 |
| 12 | | 24:25 |
| 13 | | 29:37 |
| 14 | | 56:04 |
| 15 | | 44:16 |
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