Cranford
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | s.l. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T09:56:02Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T09:56:02Z |
| dc.date.created | 1853 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3096 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3096 |
| dc.description.abstract | Header gives 1st ed. 1853 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.replaces | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2148 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English fiction -- 19th century |
| dc.title | Cranford |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 2246730 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1907 Edition. CHAPTER I — OUR SOCIETY IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. What could they do if they were there? The surgeon has his round of thirty miles, and sleeps at Cranford; but every man cannot be a surgeon. For keeping the trim gardens full of choice flowers without a weed to speck them; for frightening away little boys who look wistfully at the said flowers through the railings; for rushing out at the geese that . . .
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