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Elizabeth Gaskell and Anne Thackeray Ritchie - Cranford
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Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford: a gentle comedy of manners in the English Countryside
In the last few years or so, I've been noting a resurgence of a writer who was very popular in nineteenth century England. Not quite as famous as Charles Dickens or Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell did find a niche writing about everyday people in the small towns and villages that dotted... Read full review »
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Cranford by Elizabeth Clegh" "Gaskell
Free Worldwide Delivery : Cranford : Paperback : Dover Publications Inc. : 9780486426815 : 0486426815 : 05 May 2003 : A sensitive and moving portrait of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s, Cranford recounts the events and activities in the lives of a group of spinsters and widows.
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| Authors | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | |
| Editors | Elizabeth Langland | |
| Narrator | Nadia May | |
| Illustrator | George Du Maurier | |
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| In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen they are not at Cranford. | ||
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