Cranford

Locations
Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Cranford submitted by pamelawright on July 2, 2018, 3:48pm This book took me a while to get interested in. I kept expecting more of a plot. I was able to find some ideas to discuss at book group though.

Well worth reading submitted by jimetzkorn on March 2, 2019, 2:05pm This is a beautiful set of stories, mostly about women in a small British town in the early 19th Century. Gaskell weaves together accounts of small, domestic conflicts with large life events, and she does it with grace and a consistent tone. More sentimental, perhaps, than Austen, but still she builds from a base of belief that women’s lives matter. She shows us that little things can have outsized drama, and large events can be missed sometimes by everyone but the one struggling to bear them.