CRANFORD

This christmas holidays I have read a book called Cranford.
The first thing to say is that Cranford is held by the ladies (first sentence of the book)

Cranford is narrated in the first person by Mary Smith. She tells the little adventures that occur in the small English town of Cranford in the first half of the nineteenth century.

 The rules of society were different 150 years ago, buy people stay the same, they can be happy, sad, brave, angry... but above the ladies of Cranford are very kind, and she show it when Miss Matty has problems, all of them wants to help her somehow.

 In Cranford nobody is very rich, but you must not talk about being poor. Indeed not!  That would be a very vulgar thing to do. And in Cranford it is important not to be vulgar...

This is one of the sentences that begins the book and I think it reflects very well the history of the book.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Mrs. Gaskell decided to write her first novel after the tragic death of her first son.

Other novels of Elizabeth are: Mary Barton, Ruth, Sylvia’s lovers, North and South…

I have enjoyed reading this book and also I have learnt how live and think ladies 150 years ago but I think that there were some parts that were a bit long and boring.

I recommend it to anyone who wants to have a good time reading and, at the same time, wants to learn about Victorian society. 

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