Cranford (Collins Classics)
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ββI'll not listen to reason,β she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. "Reason always means what someone else has got to say."β
First published in serial format in a magazine, Gaskellβs Cranford is a delightfully light-hearted series of stories about early Victorian life in a country village.
Following the lives of two spinster sisters, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah as they gossip about the inconsequential goings-on of the community around them, Gaskellβs best-loved work affectionately comments on the role of women in society at that time and the changing face of the Victorian world.
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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810β1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
