Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Cranford

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Editor/introduction - Patricia Ingham

Penguin Classics
Paperback : 30 Jun 2005

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Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster, imagined burglaries, tragic accidents, and the reapparance of long-lost relatives.