"(Un)intellectual, Social, Feminist or Canonical Writer? Reading Gaskell in the Twentieth Century and in the New Millennium"

The chapter focuses on Gaskell's literary reputation and her multiple identities, which include an (un)intellectual writer as well as a social, a feminist, and a canonical Victorian novelist. The study charts the long process of revision which has characterised both the writer's work and her public profile in the twentieth and in the last decade.