Anywhere: Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810 1865 Cranford (Keywords)

In this poignant comedy of early Victorian life, Elizabeth Gaskell explores the effects of Victorian commerce and imperial expansion on the survival of customs from earlier times.

In this poignant comedy of early Victorian life, Elizabeth Gaskell explores the effects of Victorian commerce and imperial expansion on the survival of customs from earlier times. This new edition includes an introduction by Patricia Ingham that places the novel in its literary and historical...

In this poignant comedy of early Victorian life, Elizabeth Gaskell explores the effects of Victorian commerce and imperial expansion on the survival of customs from earlier times. This up-to-date edition includes 2 shorter related works.

In this poignant comedy of early Victorian life, Elizabeth Gaskell explores the effects of Victorian commerce and imperial expansion on the survival of customs from earlier times. This up-to-date edition includes 2 shorter related works.

'Cranford' is a comic portrait of an early Victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose social attitudes remain firmly unchanging against the modernising world, and whose domestic details dominate conversation.

In this comedy of early Victorian life, Elizabeth Gaskell explores the effects of Victorian commerce & imperial expansion on the survival of customs from earlier times.

'Cranford' depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village in the mid-19th century. Through a series of vignettes, Gaskell portrays a community governed by old-fashioned habits.

A potrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-19th century, 'Cranford' relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced surroundings.