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Cranford

Cranford is a public-domain English adventure novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Themes include England, Female friendship, Older women, Pastoral fiction. Read clean chapter pages on Talezzo

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Creator: Public Domain Source 17 chapters Updated Jun 25, 2026 57.4K views 3K likes 0 comments

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Cranford is a public-domain English adventure novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, imported for Talezzo readers who want free online chapter pages and classic fiction discovery.

Subjects: England, Female friendship, Older women, Pastoral fiction, Sisters, Villages.

Source record: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/394. This page uses public-domain text metadata and stores the reading pages on Talezzo with clean SEO URLs.

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Cranford Chapter 1: PEACE TO CRANFORD

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“Oh, sir! Can you be Peter?” A magnificent family red silk umbrella Meekly going to her pasture Endeavouring to beguile her into conversation She brought the affrighted carter ... into the drawing-room “With his arm round Miss Jessie’s waist!” Mr Holbrook ... bade us good-bye Now, what colour are ash-buds in March? I made use of the time to think of many other things “Confound the woman!” The temptation of the comfortable arm-chair had been too much for her Mr Mulliner We gave her a tea-spoonful of currant jelly Afraid of matrimonial reports Asked him to take care of us Slaughterous and indiscriminate directions Would stretch out their little arms “What do you think, Miss Matty?” Standing over him like a bold dragoon “You must give me your note, Mr Dobson, if you please” “Please, ma’am, he wants to marry me off hand” Miss Matty and I sat assenting to accounts Smiling glory ... and becoming blushes I went to call Miss Matty

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_Most of the three-colour blocks used in this book have been made by the Graphic Photo-Engraving Co._, _London_

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Cranford Chapter List

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