The Grey Woman is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell in the Tales of Mystery and the Macabre collection. It was first published in January 1861 in volume IV of Charles Dickens’ All the Year Round. This is an edited version of a blog by Diane Duffy for the Gaskell Society's This Month in Writing series and you can read the full version Here Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Grey Woman is, out of all her short stories, one of