TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gaskell,Elizabeth Cleghorn
AU  - Ritchie,Anne Thackeray
AU  - Thomson,Hugh
TI  - Cranford
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - England -- Fiction
KW  - Sisters -- Fiction
KW  - Pastoral fiction
KW  - Villages -- Fiction
KW  - Older women -- Fiction
KW  - Female friendship -- Fiction
N1  - 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
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57539
ER  -