My enjoyment of Cranford may be deeply colored by having seen the miniseries on PBS first. It's a charming collection of stories about ladies trying to maintain their gentility in an English village in the mid-1800s.
Cranford is a series of short stories about a charming country town in Victorian England that seems to be dominated by a close knit group of nosy spinsters. The stories revolve around the life of elderly Miss Maddie. Although the stories don't have detailed earth shattering plots, they ooze charm....
Fairly self-contained chapters recalling a woman's visits to the town she grew up in. Charming, amusing, female-centred ("Cranford is in possession of the Amazons"). Fortunately I read it before the dreadful BBC adaptation.
This is a sweet tale of the little old ladies living in a small town in England. It's told from the perspective of a young visitor, including her affectionate yet sly remarks about the quirks of life in Cranford. The story mostly follows Miss Matty, a elderly, dimwitted but incredibly kind spinste...
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders above houses of a certain rent are women. If a married couple comes 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...
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