It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the. And throughout, we sense the suffocating pressure of convention, which oppresses women and keeps the workers in their place. Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Also, in the extras, the makers mention that they do have another book ready to go. Ostensibly, Cranford is a gently comic novel of English village life: old. Housing for the poor is 'cottages built… of wattles and clay, and thatched with sods'-words from the book, graphically illustrated on screen. I bought my copy whilst in London recently, but BBC America might have it. Felicity James on Elizabeth Gaskell The narrator of Cranford (18513) knows. It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published with minor revisions as a book with the title Cranford in 1853. (Luckily he succeeds.) Criminal justice was far harsher then: a man could be transported to Australia for robbery and 'may be sent to prison for being a vagabond for no specific act, for his general mode of life.' In terms of social mobility, the character Lady Ludlow, played by Francesca Annis, would never consider engaging a servant who can write, and opposes the establishment of a school for local children. Cranford is an episodic novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. But the radical Dr Harrison is determined to save the arm and therefore the man's livelihood by setting it.

When a carpenter breaks his arm, it is expected that it will have to be amputated (this was the standard treatment of the day). But there is hardly a scene in Cranford which makes you think that you would like to live in those times-they were brutish and hard. Written by Polly Barbour Cranford is the type of small town where everyone knows everything about everyone else. It has become fashionable recently to favourably re-examine the Victorian era. But the real strength of the series was in showing how different it was. In its Radio Times coverage of the series, the BBC emphasised the similarities between life in the Victorian period and today.

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