Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810-1865 creator Ritchie, Anne Thackeray 1837-1919 Thomson, Hugh 1860-1920 text utu 2018 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Original publication data not identified England -- Fiction Sisters -- Fiction Pastoral fiction Villages -- Fiction Older women -- Fiction Female friendship -- Fiction PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57539 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57539 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134327.0 57539