by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620597
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«Cranford» is Elizabeth Gaskell's novel of manners, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
In this comedy of Victorian England, life in a small town is portrayed with humor and tenderness. Two unmarried sisters, Matty and Deborah Jenkyns, try to maintain their dignity and customs in the face of economic difficulties and the changes of the nineteenth century.
This 1994 edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection; the work was originally published in 1853.
For readers of English classics and Victorian fiction who appreciate humor of manners and social observation.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her only biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë family's lasting fame. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851–1853), North and South (1854–1855), and Wives and Daughters (1864–1866), all of which have been adapted for television by the BBC.
