Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte wrote: “Thank you for your letter, it was as pleasant as a quiet chat, as welcome as spring showers, as reviving as a friend’s visit in short, it was very like a page of Cranford.”. The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well.Īppended to this recording is a short sequel, The Cage at Cranford, written ten years later and published in the journal All the Year Round. The book is a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters. Cranford is a genteel and humorous look at Victorian society by Elizabeth Gaskell, and is quite a change from her more gritty novels like Mary Barton or North and South. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gossip and their romances as they face the challenges of dealing with new inhabitants to their society and innovations to their settled existence. Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.Ī collection of comic sketches, these stories look to sympathetically portray changing small-town customs and values. Download the Vurbl app and listen, snip or save Chapter 17 | The Cage at Cranford on the fly.Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. When you make a playlist, you can include your favorite chapters or snippets so you can share or listen to them any time. Make snippets of your favorite quotes and moments from Chapter 17 | The Cage at Cranford and organize them with all your favorite classic book quotes in a playlist.
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Appended to this recording is a short sequel, The Cage at Cranford, written ten years later and published in the journal All the Year Round. It was first published between 18 as episodes in Charles Dickens’ Journal Household Words.
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