An omnibus edition that includes Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel "Cranford", which is a comic portrait of the lives of Cranford's genteel female inhabitants, as well as a novella and a short story. It presents poignant portraits of early Victorian country village life.
These two diaries, by the nineteenth-century novelist Elizabeth Gaskell and her cousin Sophia Holland, provide us with uniquely personal and revealing accounts of Victorian womanhood and motherhood.