A ?Bluebeard? story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well.[...]
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.[...]
In the village of Cranford, decorum is maintained at all times. Despite their poverty, the ladies are never vulgar about money (or their lack of it), and always follow the rules of propriety. But this discretion and gentility does not keep away tragedy; and when the worst happens, the Amazons of Cra[...]
Provides a portrait of an early Victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose social attitudes remain firmly unchanging against the modernising world, and whose domestic details dominate conversation. This novel describes the uneventful lives of Cranford's inhabitants.[...]
CRANFORD (1851-1853) by Elizabeth Gaskell is the quintessential novel of British Victorian small town mores, as only Gaskell could portray them. Cranford is a charming imaginary town filled with chatty females, most of them old spinsters, gossip and nostalgia, loves unfulfilled and remembered, and [...]