Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford is a classic novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1851, first appearing as a serial in the magazine, Household Words, which was edited by the literature King, Charles Dickens. Cranford follows the gentle women of the Victorian Town as they go about their quiet lives expecting nothing untoward to happen; whilst adhering to their own sets of eccentric rules, e.g how they eat their oranges, do they suck the juice out or cut into segments? Cranford is recognised as the best known novel by Gaskell and is a witty classic that should sit along Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice on book shelves. I began to read Cranford after the much ...  Read the complete review