01890cam a22003853u 4500 394 UtSlPG 20260610133031.0 m cr n 260607r1996||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 Cranford Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1996 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranford_(novel) Release date is 1996-01-01 David Price, Margaret Price and Richard Tonsing Updated: 2022-10-29. "Cranford" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is an episodic novel published in 1853. Set in a small English country town, the work affectionately portrays a society of elderly women navigating genteel poverty and rigid social codes in a world slowly changing around them. Through the eyes of visitor Mary Smith, readers encounter the "Amazons" of Cranford—widows and spinsters maintaining appearances through "elegant economy" while resisting the industrial age creeping beyond their boundaries. This gentle chronicle explores class, tradition, and the gradual shift from rank-based society toward human kindness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified England -- Fiction Sisters -- Fiction Pastoral fiction Villages -- Fiction Older women -- Fiction Female friendship -- Fiction Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1870-1938 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/394 42522 42522