Cranford
In a small Cheshire town where every household that matters is run by a woman of small means and unbending manners, the great questions are whether a shopkeeper's family may be received, how to economise without appearing to, and what became of a brother who went to India. A bank failure and a travelling conjuror disturb an order the narrator records with affection and a straight face. Serialised at Dickens's invitation, it turned Gaskell's Knutsford childhood into the most enduringly loved of her books.
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- alludes to ↑ The Pickwick Papers
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