A Literary Walk #14

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?