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Cranford: A Victorian Classic of Village Life, Women's Friendship, and Social Comedy
Hardcover
Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515435747
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's Cranford is a beloved Victorian classic of village life, social comedy, women's friendship, genteel poverty, memory, and quiet resilience. Set in the small fictional town of Cranford, the novel follows a community largely governed by older unmarried women whose habits, rituals, loyalties, anxieties, and small acts of courage create a world both comic and deeply humane. Gaskell's tone is gentle but observant, turning tea tables, visits, economies, misunderstandings, losses, and neighbourly kindness into a subtle portrait of social change and emotional endurance.
First published in book form in 1853 after appearing in serial form, Cranford remains one of Gaskell's most approachable and enduring works. It stands naturally beside Mary Barton, North and South, Ruth, Wives and Daughters, and Sylvia's Lovers, while differing from her industrial novels in its quieter domestic scale. Readers interested in Victorian fiction, classic English literature, women's lives, small-town society, literary comedy, domestic realism, and nineteenth-century social observation will find in Cranford a sharply drawn but affectionate novel whose apparent lightness conceals considerable intelligence and feeling.
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