CRANFORD (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)

Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is a delicately comic yet deeply humane portrait of a small Cheshire town governed largely by genteel, unmarried women whose rituals of economy, etiquette, friendship, and memory form an alternative social order. First serialized in Household Words, the novel's episodic structure and conversational narrative voice place it within Victorian domestic realism while resist...