In this chapter, I examine three short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, analysing them as travel writing, building on the inter-disciplinary work on travel writing discussed in the introduction to this book. I point to the transgressive challenge travel posed to the domestic environment and to gendered norms. I focus on the ‘Truth-Lie dichotomy’ experienced in particular by women travel writers whose work was vulnerable to accusations of exaggeration or falsehood because they included more of the personal in their travel accounts, thus making them more prone to accusations of lying. ‘Cranford’ (1853) offers an unlikely version of travel writing but I argue that the travellers who visit the town disrupt class and social boundaries within a domestic setting, creating a richer, more unified society in which difference is embraced rather than rejected. I move on to discuss ‘Lois the Witch’ (1860), a very different text, in which the martyrdom of a young woman, travelling and failing to find the sanctuary of a home, also brings about change in a community. Finally, ‘The Grey Woman’ looks at a journey which leads to danger and the consequent alienation of families. In all three texts, fathers play a key role in the motivation for travel, linking the analysis back to the texts discussed in Chap. 2.