Cranford.
Elizabeth Gaskell.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 0-19-283209-3
Originally published as a series of stories between 1851 and 1853, and then as a book in 1853. This edition includes an excellent introduction, a chronology of Elizabeth Gaskell’s life, and an essential section of explanatory notes.
If you ever read “Flambards”, then you might recognize the juxtaposition of small flying machines and pastoral England.
Can fictional characters leave ghosts?
To Whitby to see where Dracula lurked in England.
After a bracing English breakfast we spend the day on the fells.
Treading in the footsteps of the Brontes.
An afternoon at England’s best example of Tudor timber-framed manor. Discover a new food.
Our neighborhood pub in its 6th century of operation.
From the fells and dales, perfect English countryside.
Visiting his alma mater.