num_pages: 144
description: A sensitive and moving portrait of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s, 'Cranford' recounts the events and activities in the lives of a group of spinsters and widows who struggle in genteel poverty to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness.
language: English
title: Cranford
titlecomplete: Cranford
characters: Peter Jenkyns, Miss Deborah Jenkyns, Betty Barker, Miss Matty Jenkyns, Miss Pole, Captain Brown, Mary Smith, Mary Smith, Miss Matty Jenkyns, Miss Deborah Jenkyns, Miss Pole, Betty Barker, Captain Brown, Thomas Holbrook, Peter Jenkyn, Thomas Holbrook
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Victorian
ratings_count: 42832
places: England
publisher: Dover Publications