Cranford

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Gaskell

• Publisher: Public Domain Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 134 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1453891811

✦ Synopsis

Product Description

"Cranford" is the best known novel of 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The book was first published in a series of episodes in a magazine that was edited by Charles Dickens entitled "Household Words". The fictional town of Cranford is closely modeled after Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs. Gaskell knew well. The book focuses around the lives of Mary Smith and her friends Miss Matty and Miss Deborah who are spinster sisters. We come to know many of the people of Cranford such as Miss Pole, who is supposed to be the most reasonable and enlightened of all the Cranford ladies. We learn of a former milliner named Batty Barker, who owns a cow that she loves like a daughter. We see Peter Jenkyns, the long lost brother of the spinster sisters, return from India. The novel was adapted for television by the BBC three times.

About the Author

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