Cranford: A Country Town Ruled by Its Ladies
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A small Cheshire town run almost entirely by women of small means and large dignity, where the arrival of a bank failure or a conjuror counts as an era. Gaskell wrote it in sketches for Dickens's magazine, with no plan for a novel, and the shape it took is the shape of gossip. The town is Knutsford, where she grew up. Fifty-eight plates of painting, from Tissot to Marianne North, gather the parlours, tea tables and far-off landscapes that give Gaskell's small-town comedy its wider weather.
A small Cheshire town run almost entirely by women of small means and large dignity, where the arrival of a bank failure or a conjuror counts as an era. Gaskell wrote it in sketches for Dickens's magazine, with no plan for a novel, and the shape it took is the shape of gossip. The town is Knutsfo...
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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist born in Chelsea and raised in Knutsford, Cheshire. The wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester, she wrote about industrial poverty and provincial life, and published the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist born in Chelsea and raised in Knutsford, Cheshire. The wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester, she wrote about industrial poverty and provincial life, and published the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her works include Mary Barton, Cr...
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