Christine Alexander
Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian Juvenilia

Tatsuhiro Ohno
The Structure of Ruth: Is the Heroine’s Martyrdom Inconsistent with the Plot?

Marion Shaw
Sylvia’s Lovers, Then and Now

Jennifer Stolpa
What’s in a name? Echoes of Biblical Women in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth

Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet
‘The Heart of John Middleton’: a Pilgrim’s Progress Towards a New, Feminized Christianity

Dick Watson
Heroes and heroines and Sylvia’s Lovers