This is the Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. North and South (The Penguin English Library) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,Elizabeth Gaskell 4.

The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty's days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness and an endless appetite for scandal, until change comes into their world - whether it is the modern ideas of Captain Brown, a bank collapse, rumours of burglars or an unexpected reappearance from the past. One of Elizabeth Gaskell's most beloved works, it centres on a community dominated by women and governed by old-fashioned ways. For more than two decades, Library Journals Day of Dialog has been the most anticipated librarian-only gathering of the year. Features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian.

'Cranford' is an affectionate and often moving portrait of genteel poverty and intertwined lives in a nineteenth-century village. Description for North and South (Penguin English Library) Paperback. 'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it'.

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