Cranford, Part 1 of 16
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Tonight, Elizabeth reads Chapter 1 of "Cranford" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, first published in 1853.
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| 1:30.0 | Good evening and welcome to the sleepy book shelf where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book. I'm your host, Elizabeth, and it is |
| 1:39.5 | fabulous to have you here with me tonight. Because this evening I'm excited to be beginning |
| 1:46.4 | our new book, Cranford, which is one of the earliest books by the English writer and biographer, Elizabeth Cleghorne Gascal. |
| 1:59.0 | It was first published episodically in the magazine, |
| 2:03.2 | Household Words, and was released as a full-length novel in 1853. |
| 2:10.5 | Like much of Gascals' work, Cranford gives readers a detailed look at Victorian English society. |
| 2:19.0 | As an author, she often focused on relationships between different social strata from the richest |
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