Cranford (Hardcover)

Description

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. Cranford describes the everyday lives of a group of middle-aged women living in a lower-to-middle-class, country village in Victorian England. With their limited resources, the women attempt to maintain both appearances and the rigid social customs of the day, often with a comical outcome.