Cranford (Electronic book text)

Cranford, a secluded country village in 1830s England, is inhabited largely by women. Here, Mary Smith and her friends, a well-mannered group of spinsters and widows, enjoy a domestic peace and close community that is both fueled and threatened only by the gossip that runs through it. This Middleton Classics edition includes the 1849 essay, "The Last Generation in England" by Elizabeth Gaskell.