![]() As a fond record of an old-fashioned backwater, the story has primarily been praised for its charm, domestic detail, and vivid creation of a rural society dominated by a close-knit group of impoverished gentlewomen. An additional episode, “The Cage at Cranford,” was published in Dickens’s All the Year Round in November 1863.Ĭranford is based on Elizabeth Gaskell’s childhood memories of the small town of Knutsford, Cheshire. First serialized in Household Words, a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens, between December 1851 and May 1853, Cranford appeared in volume form in June 1853. ![]() An episodic novel of linked stories set in Cranford, a fictitious country town in northern England. ![]()
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