This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskell. Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs making such a graceful bow in reply to which I dropped a curtsey
- all foreigners have such polite manners one catches something of it. " Cranford" is an affectionate & often moving portrait of genteel poverty & intertwined lives in a nineteenth-century village. One of Elizabeth Gaskells most beloved works it centres on a community dominated by women & governed by old-fashioned ways. The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns & the kindly Miss Mattys days revolve around card games tea thriftiness & an endless appetite for scandal until change comes into their world
- whether it is the modern ideas of Captain Brown a bank collapse rumours of burglars or an unexpected reappearance from the past. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."