Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled...
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Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well. The book has little in the way of plot and is more a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters
Title; Contents; Chapter I - Our Society; Chapter II - The Captain; Chapter III - A Love Affair of Long Ago; Chapter IV - A Visit to an Old Bachelor; Chapter V - Old Letters; Chapter VI - Poor Peter; Chapter VII - Visiting; Chapter VIII - "Your Ladyship"; Chapter IX - Signor Brunoni; Chapter X - The Panic; Chapter XI - Samuel Brown; Chapter XII - Engaged to Be Married; Chapter XIII - Stopped Payment; Chapter XIV - Friends in Need; Chapter XV - A Happy Return; Chapter XVI - Peace to Cranford;