![]() ![]() It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published. ![]() The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty's days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness and an endless appetite for scandal, until change comes into their world - whether it is the modern ideas of Captain Brown, a bank collapse, rumours of burglars or an unexpected reappearance from the past.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. Cranford is an episodic novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The work slowly became popular and from the start of the 20th century it saw a number of dramatic treatments for the stage. It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published with minor revisions as a book with the title Cranford in 1853. ![]() The Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell published several novels and short. Cranford is an episodic novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. One of Elizabeth Gaskell's most beloved works, it centres on a community dominated by women and governed by old-fashioned ways. Chapter 1: Hierarchy and Gentility: The Backbone and Face of Cranford Society. ![]() 'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it'Cranford is an affectionate and often moving portrait of genteel poverty and intertwined lives in a nineteenth-century village. Title: Cranford Author: Elizabeth Gaskell ISBN: 9780486426815 No. The Penguin English Library Edition of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |