Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"Cranford" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is an episodic novel first published in 1853. Set in a small English country town, it affectionately portrays a society of genteel women—mostly widows and spinsters—navigating life with "elegant economy" while clinging to old-fashioned codes of conduct. As the outside world encroaches through railways and social change, these proud ladies must reconcile their rigid class traditions with deeper values of kindness and mutual support. The novel chronicles
a vanishing way of life with humor and warmth. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 |
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| Author of introduction, etc. | Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 |
| Illustrator | Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920 |
| Title | Cranford |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranford_(novel) |
| Credits | E-text prepared by KD Weeks, Anne Grieve, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (archive.org) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Sisters -- Fiction |
| Subject | Pastoral fiction |
| Subject | Villages -- Fiction |
| Subject | Older women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Female friendship -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 57539 |
| Release Date | Jul 20, 2018 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 15, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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