Name: Cranford (Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry)
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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 9781108060424

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Cranford (Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Elizabeth Gaskell

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

334

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781108060424

Edition No.

Synopsis "Cranford (Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry) "

In the delicately impoverished town of Cranford, everyone is keen to know everyone else's business. The community is almost devoid of men, and in their place a solid matriarchy has formed. Manners must be observed, house calls must not exceed a quarter of an hour, and neither money matters nor death may be discussed in public. But the peace is often disturbed. Rumoured burglars, literary disagreements, and the arrival of Captain Brown and his tactless daughters all cause ripples, warmly charted by the conversational narrator, Mary Smith. When the past erupts through the fragile class distinctions and disputed tea sales, the customary perspective of the town shifts in small but perceptible ways forever. First published as a magazine serial from 1851 and then in novel form in 1853, Cranford is the best-known work by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65). This reissue is of the 1853 second edition.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (September 29, 1810 - November 12, 1865), often known simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was a Victorian era English novelist and short story writer. Her novels provide a detailed portrait of the lives of many social strata, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians, as well as to literature lovers.

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