Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Porges Watson

This portrait of life in a quiet English country town in the mid-nineteenth century follows the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters living in reduced circumstances.

Cranford

Paige mandia 

I did really love the themes of sisterhood, nostalgia, and community in this novel, and I loved the wit and absurd situations. But I just didn’t vibe with the overall structure of the novel as a set of vignettes. It didn’t flow easily to me and there were just a lot of characters that were hard to keep track of popping in and out. I definitely would’ve enjoyed this more if it were structured like an actual novel rather than episodically.

Cranford

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