![]() The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty's days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness and an endless appetite for scandal, until change comes into their world - whether it is the modern ideas of Captain Brown, a bank collapse, rumours of burglars or an unexpected reappearance from the past. ![]() It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published with minor revisions as a book with the title Cranford in 1853. Written by Polly Barbour Cranford is the type of small town where everyone knows everything about everyone else. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Read Chapter 9: Signor Brunoni of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. One of Elizabeth Gaskell's most beloved works, it centres on a community dominated by women and governed by old-fashioned ways. Cranford is an episodic novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. by Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford Summary These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. 'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it'Ĭranford is an affectionate and often moving portrait of genteel poverty and intertwined lives in a nineteenth-century village. ![]()
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