Cranford
About this book
Cranford was first serialized in Charles Dickens’ magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853. The structureless nature of the stories, and the fact that Gaskell was busy writing her novel Ruth at the time the Cranford shorts were being published, suggests that she didn’t initially plan for Cranford to be a cohesive novel.
The short vignettes follow the activities of the society in the fictional small English country town of Cranford. Gaskell drew from her own childhood in Knutsford to imbue her settings and characters with a nostalgic quality in a time when the societies and styles portrayed were already going out of fashion.
Though not especially popular at the time of publication, Cranford has since gained an immense following, including at least three television adaptations.
Subjects
- amitié féminine
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- country life
- drama
- england -- fiction
- england, fiction
- english language
- english language, juvenile literature
- english literature
- english pastoral fiction
- families
- female friendship
- female friendship -- fiction
- femmes âgées
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, religious
- friendship, fiction
- high interest-low vocabulary books
- interpersonal relations
- literature
- long now manual for civilization
- manners and customs
- mœurs et coutumes
- older women
- older women -- fiction
- pastoral fiction
- problems, exercises
- readers
- readers (adult)
- readers for new literates
- readers (secondary)
- reading comprehension
- romance
- romans, nouvelles
- single women, fiction
- sisters
- sisters -- fiction
- sisters, fiction
- social life and customs
- sœurs
- textbooks for foreign speakers
- villages
- villages -- fiction
- women