Mr. Harrison's Confessions

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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.

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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.

v t e 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)

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