Cranford
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cover: A Buckinghamshire house at Penn Street (c. 1900), watercolour by Helen Allingham (1848-1926) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1926)
Cranford is an episodic novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. 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 work slowly became popular and from the start of the 20th century it saw a number of dramatic treatments for the stage, the radio and TV.
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