![]() ![]() Two Mondays: July 24 and 31, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Week 2: Cranford, chapters 9-16 supplemental materials: “The Last Generation in England” and “The Cage at Cranford” (Appendices I and II in the Oxford edition). Please join us for discussion of this short novel to discover its charm for yourself. The novel explores and questions gender, class, and social change in subtle but interesting ways. Loosely and episodically organized, the book lacks a tight plot but has consistently been critically praised as “charming” in its portrayal of the women who dominate the town’s social structure. ![]() ![]() Later gathered together, they became the novel, Cranford, a fictionalized portrait of the small-town social world in which Gaskell grew up. She wrote a series of short stories for publication in Charles Dickens’s magazine, Household Words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, ne Stevenson (29 September 1810 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short. ![]() Elizabeth Gaskell was a popular Victorian novelist, most famous for her social criticism of the costs of industrialism in novels such as Mary Barton and North and South, her unfinished masterpiece Wives and Daughters, and her biography of her friend, Charlotte Brontë. ![]()
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