Black and white line drawings throughout by Hugh Thomson, frontispiece (of Miss Matty) tissue protected. The Manchester home of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell opens to the public on Sunday after a £2.5m restoration.

Internally: generally very clean and tightly bound both paper hinges cracked but still sound dark green paste downs and front free end papers owner's signature in neat, elegant hand, dated 1893 to verso front free end paper all edges gilded, small mark to top edge gilding some foxing throughout possible small insect erosion in past to top of rear free end paper and 3 pages into rear of book (see photos) otherwise in very good condition. Cover: Dark Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and design of flowers to front and spine gilding very bright and clean especially to the front ( slight wearing to spine) and generally very good for a book of its age (120 years plus) some rubbing to all edges and corners commensurate with age 6cm (approx) split to front fore edge of spine. Read Cranford (1853) by all means - it is sublime. 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. A prolific author who wrote for money when she needed to, Mrs Gaskell's oeuvre is patchy. Gaskell (Author) 719 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover from 49.99 1 Collectible from 49.99 Paperback 4.00 28 Used from 1.17 1 New from 4.00 Mass Market Paperback 30.95 17 Used from 0.01 4 New from 30. A Tale of Manchester Life, was published anonymously in 1848. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era.

Gaskell's most famous novel, in remarkably good condition for its age. Cranford is an episodic novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell née Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. The 'major' event in the story is the return to Cranford of their long-lost brother, Peter, which in itself is only a minor portion of the work.Cloth. The book has little in the way of plot and is more a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters. The amazing secret life of Cranford creator Elizabeth Gaskell By TONY RENNELL Last updated at 00:30 27 November 2007 On the surface, she was the ideal Victorian wife and mother, a 19th-century. The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. Cranford, the BBCs adaptation of three novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, must be one of the most joyously innocent series any broadcaster has screened for a long day.

Download cover art Download CD case insert CranfordĬranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson.

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