Cranford

"Cranford" is one of the better-known novels of the Victorian English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The book is a collection of satirical sketches which sympathetically portray changing small-town customs and values in mid-Victorian England. Based on her childhood memories in the small Cheshire town of Knutsford, Cranford (a fiction city) is Elizabeth Gaskell's affectionate portrait of people and cust...