Cranford (Gaskell, 1853)
From Commonplace Book
Elizabeth Gaskell. Cranford. Pub. 1851-3. Ed. Elizabeth Porges Watson and Dinah Birch. Oxford World's Classics, 2011.
General
- serialized in Household Words Dec 1851-May 1853, whilst Bleak House (1853) was being published
- Forster a fan (Intro)
- 4 positioning the audience as urban: "Have you any red silk umbrellas in London?"
- also not talking about money and the class contrast with commerce and trade prefiguring North and South (Gaskell, 1855)
- 5 vulgarity, "elegant economy" keywords
- 6 protesting against the train - modernity
Theme Tracking
Reading/Writing
Materiality
- cross ref with Schaffer 2011 on handicraft
