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Cranford (The World's Classics) by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865; Watson, Elizabeth Porges is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Cranford was first serialized in (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens) Charles Dickens’ magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853. The structureless nature of the stories, and the fact that (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elizabeth-gaskell) Gaskell was busy writing her novel Ruth at the time the Cranford shorts were being published, suggests that she didn’t initially plan for Cranford to be a cohesive novel. The short vignettes follow the activities of the society in the fictional small English country town of Cranford. Gaskell drew from her own childhood in Knutsford to imbue her settings and characters with a nostalgic quality in a time when the societies and styles portrayed were already going out of fashion. Though not especially popular at the time of publication, Cranford has since gained an immense following, including at least three television adaptations.

Author

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865; Watson, Elizabeth Porges

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192815316

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24