Canford

Elizabeth Gaskell 지음

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Cranford is an episodic novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published with minor revisions as a book with the title Cranford in 1853. The work slowly became popular and from the start of the 20th century it saw a number of dramatic treatments for the stage, the radio and TV.

The fictional Cranford is based on the small Cheshire town of Knutsford in which Elizabeth Gaskell grew up. She had already drawn on her childhood memories for an article published in America, "The Last Generation in England" (1849), and for the town of Duncombe which featured in her extended story "Mr. Harrisons Confessions" (1851). These accounts of life in a country town and the old-fashioned class snobbery prevailing there were carried over into what was originally intended simply as another story, published as "Our Society in Cranford" in the magazine Household Words in December 1851. Seeing the possibilities of a longer w.....

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저자(글) Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (n e Stevenson; 29 September 1810 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her work is of interest to social historians as well as readers of literature. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskells The Life of Charlotte Bront, published in 1857, was the first biography of Charlotte Bront. In this biography, she wrote only of the moral, sophisticated things in Bronts life; the rest she omitted, deciding certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden. Among Gaskells best known novels are Cranford (185153), North and South (185455), and Wives and Daughters (1865), each having been adapted for television by the BBC.