My Lady Ludlow

My Lady Ludlow is a heartwarming and sweet novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It originally appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858 and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end. The novel follows the daily lives of the widowed Countess of Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo, whose father was a Baronet, and their caring for other single women and girls.