01991cam a22003973u 4500 57539 UtSlPG 20260610134327.0 m cr n 260607r2018||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 Cranford Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2018 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 2018-07-20 E-text prepared by KD Weeks, Anne Grieve, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "Cranford" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is an episodic novel first published in 1853. Set in a small English country town, it affectionately portrays a society of genteel women—mostly widows and spinsters—navigating life with "elegant economy" while clinging to old-fashioned codes of conduct. As the outside world encroaches through railways and social change, these proud ladies must reconcile their rigid class traditions with deeper values of kindness and mutual support. The novel chronicles a vanishing way of life with humor and warmth. (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 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57539 98368 98368