![]() ![]() ![]() I bought an Oxford University Press edition because Gaskell often uses regional dialects in her work and I find the OUP notes more useful/accurate than some other editions. I have previously read Mary Barton and North and South. Written with acute observation, Cranford is by turns affectionate, moving and darkly satirical.Įlizabeth Gaskell (1810 – 1865) is best known for writing novels that critiqued Victorian society and the English class system. ![]() Her wry account of rural life is undercut, however, by tragedy in its depiction of such troubling events as Matty’s bankruptcy, the violent death of Captain Brown or the unwitting cruelty of Peter Jenkyns. Through a series of vignettes, Elizabeth Gaskell portrays a community governed by old-fashioned habits and dominated by friendships between women. Summary: A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. ![]()
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