House to Let
Author: first_name: Wilkie
last_name: Collins
first_name: Charles
last_name: Dickens
first_name:  Elizabeth Cleghorn
last_name: Gaskell
first_name: Adelaide Anne
last_name: Procter
Language: English
Year: 1858

<em>A House to Let</em> is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' <em>Household Words</em> magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, poetry) and the story was edited by Dickens, who also wrote the first and last chapters with Wilkie Collins. <br /><br />The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house (the eponymous