[Allen, Walter. 1954. The English Novel: A Short Critical History. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.]Search in Google Scholar
[Auerbach, Nina. 1982. Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Brown, Pearl L. 2000. “From Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton to her North and South: Progress or Decline for Women?” Victorian Literature and Culture, 28. 2:345-358.]Search in Google Scholar
[Davis, Deanna L. 1992. “Feminist Critics and Literary Mothers: Daughters Reading Elizabeth Gaskell” Signs, 17. 3:507-532.10.1086/494747]Search in Google Scholar
[Dickens, Charles. 1971 (1853). Bleak House. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.]Search in Google Scholar
[Eliot, George. 1994 (1859). Adam Bede. London: Penguin Books.]Search in Google Scholar
[Gaskell, Elizabeth. 1998 (1855). North and South. Introduction by Sally Shuttleworth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[___. 2006 (1853). Ruth. Introduction by Tim Dolin. Oxford: Oxford University Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[___. 1970 (1848). Mary Barton. Introduction by Stephen Gill. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.]Search in Google Scholar
[Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. 1984 (1979). The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Hardy, Thomas. 2003 (1891). Tess of the D’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (original title). London: Penguin Group.]Search in Google Scholar
[Mann, Nancy D. 1975. “Intelligence and Self-Awareness in North and South: A Matter of Sex and Class”. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 20.1: 24-38.]Search in Google Scholar
[Matus, L. Jill. (Ed.). 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CCOL0521846765]Search in Google Scholar
[Peart, Ann. 2010. “Elizabeth Gaskell”. The Worship Panel of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.]Search in Google Scholar
[Showalter, Elaine. 1977. A Literature of their Own: British Women Writers, From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing. UK: Princeton University Press.10.1515/9780691221960]Search in Google Scholar
[Tobias, Charis. 2014. “Giving Power to the Powerless: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Presentation of Women in an Age of Change. Seattle Pacific University.]Search in Google Scholar
[Vicinus, Martha. 1972. Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age. United States of America: Indiana University Press.]Search in Google Scholar