![]() ![]() You will not be dissatisfied with this work, adventure drama fiction at its finest. Early books emit excellence unlike any from modern times. A true book of worth, a classic that lives in an era of timeless distinction. ![]() Praised by Charles Dickens as "delightful, and touched with the most tender and delicate manner," the novel remains a favorite with students and aficionados of nineteenth-century literature. Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a book by an England woman first published in 1853 United Kingdom. Gaskell, the author preferred Cranford to all her other works, which include a popular biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë. Tales of the heroism and self-sacrifice of Captain Brown, the surprisingly betrothal of Lady Glenmire, and the future for pretty but poor Miss Jessie support a web of subtle but serious themes that include the movement from aristocratic to middle-class values, the separate spheres and diverse experiences of men and women, and the curious coexistence of customs old and new in a changing society. Author Elizabeth Gaskell situated her stories in a hamlet very like the one in which she grew up, and her affectionate but unsentimental portraits of the residents of Cranford offer a realistic view of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s.Ĭranford recounts the events and activities in the loves of a group of spinsters and widows who struggle in genteel poverty to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. ![]() A sensitive and moving portrait of a Victorian town, captured at a transitional period in English society, Cranford first appeared serially in Charles Dickens's magazine Household Words from 1851 to 1853, and in book form in 1853. ![]()
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