author - "Elizabeth Gaskell"
Description Cranford was first serialized in Charles Dickens’ magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853. The structureless nature of the stories, and the fact that Gaskell was busy writing her novel Ruth at the time the Cranford shorts were being published, suggests that she didn’t initially plan for Cranford to be a cohesive novel. The short vignettes follow the activities of the society in the fictional small English country town of Cranford. Gaskell drew from her own childhood in
ht, the only light was derived from theglaring, flaring oil-lamps, hung above the doors of the morearistocratic mansions; just allowing space for the passers-by tobecome visible, before they again disappeared into the darkness,where it was no uncommon thing for robbers to be in waiting fortheir prey.The traditions of those bygone times, even to the smallest socialparticular, enable one to understand more clearly thecircumstances which contributed to the formation of character.The daily life
'But are all these quite necessary troubles?' asked Margaret, looking up straight at him for an answer. A sense of indescribable weariness of all the arrangements for a pretty effect, in which Edith had been busied as supreme authority for the last six weeks, oppressed her just now; and she really wanted some one to help her to a few pleasant, quiet ideas connected with a marriage.'Oh, of course,' he replied with a change to gravity in his tone. 'There are forms and ceremonies to be gone
Description Cranford was first serialized in Charles Dickens’ magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853. The structureless nature of the stories, and the fact that Gaskell was busy writing her novel Ruth at the time the Cranford shorts were being published, suggests that she didn’t initially plan for Cranford to be a cohesive novel. The short vignettes follow the activities of the society in the fictional small English country town of Cranford. Gaskell drew from her own childhood in
ht, the only light was derived from theglaring, flaring oil-lamps, hung above the doors of the morearistocratic mansions; just allowing space for the passers-by tobecome visible, before they again disappeared into the darkness,where it was no uncommon thing for robbers to be in waiting fortheir prey.The traditions of those bygone times, even to the smallest socialparticular, enable one to understand more clearly thecircumstances which contributed to the formation of character.The daily life
'But are all these quite necessary troubles?' asked Margaret, looking up straight at him for an answer. A sense of indescribable weariness of all the arrangements for a pretty effect, in which Edith had been busied as supreme authority for the last six weeks, oppressed her just now; and she really wanted some one to help her to a few pleasant, quiet ideas connected with a marriage.'Oh, of course,' he replied with a change to gravity in his tone. 'There are forms and ceremonies to be gone