Cranford

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Cranford

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Cranford

Chapter I. Our Society

Chapter II. The Captain

Chapter III. A Love Affair of Long Ago

Chapter IV. A Visit to an Old Bachelor

Chapter V. Old Letters

Chapter VI. Poor Peter

Chapter VII. Visiting

Chapter VIII “Your Ladyship”

Chapter IX. Signor Brunoni

Chapter X. The Panic

Chapter XI. Samuel Brown

Chapter XII. Engaged to be Married

Chapter XIII. Stopped Payment

Chapter XIV. Friends in Need

Chapter XV. A Happy Return

Chapter XVI. Peace to Cranford

Mrs. Gaskell and Knutsford. by George A. Payne

Preface

Preface to Second Edition

Introduction

Chapter I: Knutsford

Knutsford

Changes in Knutsford

The Bellman

The Rhymster

Is Knutsford the Original of "Cranford"?

Cranford Notes

Brook Street Chapel

Chapter II: Mrs. Gaskell

Biography and Criticism

Memorials of Mrs. Gaskell

Bibliography

Chapter III: The Rev. William Gaskell. M. A

The Rev. William Gaskell, M.A

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Mrs. Gaskell and Knutsford by George A. Payne

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After this second funeral, Miss Jenkyns insisted that Miss Jessie should come to stay with her rather than go back to the desolate house, which, in fact, we learned from Miss Jessie, must now be given up, as she had not wherewithal to maintain it. She had something above twenty pounds a year, besides the interest of the money for which the furniture would sell; but she could not live upon that: and so we talked over her qualifications for earning money.

“I can sew neatly,” said she, “and I like nursing. I think, too, I could manage a house, if any one would try me as housekeeper; or I would go into a shop as saleswoman, if they would have patience with me at first.”

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