The Gaskell Society

Celebrating the life and work of Elizabeth Gaskell

The Women of Cranford – Part 2

Cranford is presented as an isolated community rooted in the past and inwardly focused on the minutiae of domestic routine and etiquette, yet the town has a railway; a dynamic […]

The Women of Cranford – Part 1

For April’s ‘This Month in Writing’ I have chosen to discuss Cranford as two episodes of the story were published in Household Words in April 1852 and April 1853. These […]