A man, as one of them observed to me once, is so in the way in the house! Although the ladies of Cranford know all each other’s proceedings, they are exceedingly indifferent to each other’s opinions. For keeping the trim gardens full of choice flowers without a weed to speck them for frightening away little boys who look wistfully at the said flowers through the railings for rushing out at the geese that occasionally venture in to the gardens if the gates are left open for deciding all questions of literature and politics without troubling themselves with unnecessary reasons or arguments for obtaining clear and correct knowledge of everybody’s affairs in the parish for keeping their neat maid-servants in admirable order for kindness (somewhat dictatorial) to the poor, and real tender good offices to each other whenever they are in distress, the ladies of Cranford are quite sufficient. What could they do if they were there? The surgeon has his round of thirty miles, and sleeps at Cranford but every man cannot be a surgeon. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad.
IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851–53), North and South (1854–55), and Wives and Daughters (1865), each having been adapted for television by the BBC. In this biography, she wrote only of the moral, sophisticated things in Brontë's life the rest she omitted, deciding certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her work is of interest to social historians as well as readers of literature. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. 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.Įlizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. 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. Cranford is an episodic novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.
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