Cranford version II by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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  • Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gossip and their romances as they face the challenges of dealing with new inhabitants to their society and innovations to their settled existence. It was first published between 1851 and 1853 as episodes in Charles Dickens’ Journal Household Words. Appended to this recording is a short sequel, The Cage at Cranford, written ten years later and published in the journal All the Year Round. In a letter to Mrs. Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte wrote: “Thank you for your letter, it was as pleasant as a quiet chat, as welcome as spring showers, as reviving as a friend’s visit; in short, it was very like a page of Cranford.”... Cranford is a genteel and humorous look at Victorian society by Elizabeth Gaskell, and is quite a change from her more gritty novels like Mary Barton or North and South. (Summary by Noel Badrian)
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Episodes
  • The Cage at Cranford

    The Cage at Cranford
    Apr 18 2024
    30 mins
  • Chapter 16 - Peace to Cranford

    Chapter 16 - Peace to Cranford
    Apr 18 2024
    21 mins
  • Chapter 15 - A Happy Return

    Chapter 15 - A Happy Return
    Apr 18 2024
    34 mins

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