Cranford | Two Weeks of Gaskell
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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"My father was a man and I know what they are like."
I really do love it so much - this community of women and their relationships is just so heartwarming.
Agreed! It's just so brilliant.
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I am still reading Cranford and it’s allright. Since I am not at all used to reading 19th century books, it’s a little tough but I love the story and the characters. I’ve seen the BBC adaptation and it is amazing! I think it may just well be the best period drama I’ve ever seen. The BBC doesn’t make series like that anymore. :( My favorite character has to be Ms. Octavia Pole, Cranford’s biggest gossip, I also love the character of Mrs. Jamieson!!
It's got a slightly unusual narrative style too, but it is wonderful. The BBC adaptation is brilliant!
I just finished reading it and I absolutely ADORED IT!!!!!!! I laughed and laughed! I've read North and South, Wives and Daughters, and now Cranford. Cranford was a delight! Wives and Daughters was my favorite I think, even though left unfinished....it left me haunted and Molly Gibson still lives in my mind and heart and I just know she ended up with her love! I adore your channel. You've directed me to so many of my favorite books! Thank you!
Yay, so glad you enjoyed it :) It's a wonderful novel. I love Wives and Daughters and North and South so much too.
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I adored this book. It's the first (and so far only) Gaskell I've read, and it's wonderful. I loved those women, I loved there relationships, I loved their support system. It's become one of my favorite novels.
Agreed - it is such a great book and I certainly have a soft spot for it.
Great review! I’ve just started reading it and I’m really loving it. Elizabeth Gaskell’s wit is wonderful. I find it interesting that her sense of humour is timeless. Loved the description of the woman beating time, out of time. Her characterisation is so good, so so good 😉.
I just love Gaskell. I have her set of novels by Folio Society and they are my treasured possessions.
Gaskell is just so great! :)
This is a remarkable work when you consider that a century later Willa Cather will be bemoaning the way the elderly are abandoned within a full house
l just finished Cranford for Victober and loved it. It's the first book that I've read by Gaskell and didn't have an issue with it. I'm now looking forward to reading the rest of her novels.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it :) You have so many more great books to go!
There is so much to love about Cranford! This book warms my heart as does this video! ❤
Thank you :D It really is such a lovely book.
This sounds fantastic! I’ll definitely add it to my TBR but I’ll pick it up after I read a bit more by Gaskell. As always great video!
I highly recommend it :)
Cranford is the only Gaskell I've tried and I really didn't get on with it! I'm not sure if my expectations were just wrong or if I was in the wrong reading mood. I just kept waiting for the plot to start!
It's good to hear you say it's not the best place to start, gives me hope for starting somewhere else and then coming back to it haha
It's quite different from her other books so I'd highly recommend something else by her. (Especially North and South and Wives and Daughters.) One of my favourite things about Gaskell is that all of her works are very different - the others are much more plot driven than Cranford, in general.
I've just started reading Cranford for the first time since I recently re-watched the TV adaptation. I'm enjoying it a lot at the moment although the structure is rather confusing! My favourite character in the TV series is probably Mr Carter but he isn't in the book :(
Ah, so Mr Carter is based on Mr Horner from Gaskell's other novella My Lady Ludlow - do go and read that for that character :)
Books and Things Thank you! I think I'll read My Lady Ludlow and Dr. Harrison's confessions after I read Cranford as they are both in included the edition I have 😄
I'm currently reading Cranford. Alas, it is the first Gaskell I have read and I do agree with you somewhat about it being confusing - however, I have found this foray into Gaskell's fiction rather humorous as I'm quite fond of tales about older ladies.
I'm glad you're enjoying it to an extent. It is a little confusing and I'm not sure it's her best structured novel, but I do thoroughly enjoy it.
I just finished it, the 5th work by Elizabeth Gaskell I have read and it definitely does not have the drama, plot or structure that the other works have. The reader, a man who continues to call De BOR ah DEB orah and has no voice changes or local accents makes it less enjoyable than the others. I mention that in case people are able to read but just prefer audios. I think this would be much, much better to read than listen to.
That said, since so many of her other works are so dark and sad (but with so many redeeming qualities I love them), this is a great comedy mixed with the very real sorrows. It has a much lighter overall tone. It reminds me of Pickwick Papers, but about women instead of men! Since PP is referenced in the book itself, I suspect Gaskell had this writing style and general overview of daily life and adventures in mind. As with Gaskell's other works, I am so very happy to read the details of daily life, fashion, etiquette, culture, etc. As a professional in the areas of sociology/psychology and a lover of history from the personal point of view, I thoroughly enjoyed this book for what it is.
One note, since I like to look up the locations on Google Maps and see photos of the locations of the various Gaskell works, this, I believe is based on Knutsford, UK. Thanks again for an interesting review even if I am coming to it late.
Yes, Cranford is based on Knutsford. I've been there once. It's quite a different book, more episodic than her others (like The Pickwick Papers), but I do really enjoy it.
I quite liked Cranford. I thought it was light comedy, a bit like Three Men in a Boat, or A Diary of a Nobody. I liked Miss Matty the most. I thought most the characters were life like. I thought the likelihood of Miss Matty's long lost brother turning up to solve her financial problems was pretty small, and one or two other things were over-dramatic, like the captain's death. Overall I thought it was good and rather unusual. I was surprised because Cranford is completely unlike Mary Barton and North and South.
One of the things I like about Gaskell is how different all her books are - Cranford and North and South are just miles apart in terms of themes and settings.
Ok. I think I'll have to do re-read on this one, I totally didn't get it the first time around....( question: you had mentioned before that you're reading a lot on your kindle, as am I, but don't you miss being able to note passages with post it's?!) I do!
I do a little, although I use the underline / highlight feature on my kindle quite a lot for the same purpose.
Gunna slither off and buy this book!
You should :) :)
I suppose I'm ever damned as this was my first Gaskell novel. It was quite short and fun but not particularly endearing or memorable.
Faint remembrances of a French magician they bethought a spy, one of the ladies opening a tea-shop and an elderly gentleman reading Dickens (?) (and arguing over Dickens' literary sense against Dr Johnson's) at the very beginning and getting killed by the railway when he saved a child (??)
Maybe a reread is in order!
It sure is! ^_^