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Cranford (novel)
1851–1853 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford is an episodic novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell.
It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published with minor revisions as a book with the title Cranford in 1853. The work slowly became popular and from the start of the 20th century it saw a number of dramatic treatments for the stage, the radio and TV.
Background
The fictional Cranford is based on the small Cheshire town of Knutsford in which Elizabeth Gaskell grew up.
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She had already drawn on her childhood memories for an article published in America, "The Last Generation in England" (1849), and for the town of Duncombe which featured in her extended story "Mr. Harrison's Confessions" (1851).
These accounts of life in a country town and the old-fashioned class snobbery prevailing there were carried over into what was originally intended simply as another story, published as "Our Society in Cranford" in the ma