6 miles
A Walk around Manchester
with Elizabeth Gaskell
Home of Elizabeth Gaskell
Favorite Book
Cranford
Cranford is one of those books where
the humor is so subtle and laid
out in such elegant wording that you
are led into it's gentle trap without realizing it.
It is a story of 2 spinster sisters and the world
of women they inhabit.
Favorite Quote
My next visit to Cranford was in the summer. There had been neither
births, deaths, nor marriages since I was there last. Everybody lived in
the same house, and wore pretty nearly the same well-preserved,
old-fashioned clothes. The
greatest event was, that Miss Jenkyns had
purchased a new carpet for the drawing-room. Oh, the busy work Miss
Matty and I had in chasing the sunbeams, as they fell in an
afternoon
right down on this carpet through the blindless window! We spread
newspapers over the places and sat down to our book or our work;
and, lo!
in a quarter of an hour the sun had moved, and was blazing away on
a
fresh spot; and down again we went on our knees to alter the
position of
the newspapers. We were
very busy, too, one whole morning, before Miss
Jenkyns gave her party, in following her directions, and in
cutting out
and stitching together pieces of newspaper so as to form little
paths to
every chair set for the expected visitors, lest their shoes might
dirty
or defile the purity of the carpet. Do you make paper paths for every
guest to walk upon in London?
