Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An interesting look at a writer who has come to personify the Victorian feminine ideal - "Through meticulous study of Mrs Gaskell's organising metaphors, Professor Bonaparte reveals that all her life she hid from herself a second self: an inadmissibly rebellious, daemonic "male" counter-force whose energies disrupted but also empowered her work." A title in the Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Notes, select bibliography, index. x, 310 pp. ISBN: 0-8139-1390X.