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Mr. Harrison’s Confessions is an episodic 1851 long short story or novella (over 29,000 words) by Elizabeth Gaskell about a doctor in provincial England. It is notable for being a 'prequel' to her novel Cranford. With Cranford, The Last Generation in England and My Lady Ludlow, it was adapted for TV in 2007 as Cranford.
External links
- Free eBook edition
- Marie Fitzwilliam, "Mr Harrison's Confessions": A Study of the General Practitioner's Social and Professional Disease in Mid-Nineteenth Century England (The Gaskell Society Journal, Volume 12 - 1998 - pp. 28-36)
- Uglow, Jenny (3 November 2007). "Band of women". The Guardian. http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2204287,00.html. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
Works by Elizabeth Gaskell Novels: Mary Barton (1848) • Cranford (1851–53) • Ruth (1853) • North and South (1854–55) • My Lady Ludlow (1859 novella) • Sylvia's Lovers (1863) • Wives and Daughters (1865)
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: The Last Generation in England (1849) • The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)Categories:- Short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
- 1851 short stories
- Story stubs
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