![]() ![]() ![]() The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty's days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness and an endless appetite for scandal, until change comes into their world - whether it is the modern ideas of Captain Brown, a bank collapse, rumours of burglars or an unexpected reappearance from the past. She brought her two eldest daughters, both in their early twenties, and the three of them were welcomed into the lively. Guest author Elizabeth Cranford Garcias most recent work has appeared in Tar River Poetry, Portland Review, CALYX, Tinderbox Poetry, and Anti-Heroin Chic. A delightful literary classic, opening a window on life in a small English country town in the mid-nineteenth century. ![]() Gaskells novels are notable for detailed descriptions of the different classes of society. One of Elizabeth Gaskell's most beloved works, it centres on a community dominated by women and governed by old-fashioned ways. Elizabeth Gaskell visited Rome for the first time in the spring of 1857. Cranford by English author Elizabeth Gaskell is a book of literary fiction first published in 1853 in the UK. Elizabeth Gaskell was a British author during the Victorian era. 'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it'Ĭranford is an affectionate and often moving portrait of genteel poverty and intertwined lives in a nineteenth-century village. ![]()
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