Cranford

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Title: Cranford

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Release Date: January, 1996 [EBook #394] [This file was first posted on December 7, 1995] [Most recently updated: August 18, 2002]

Edition: 10

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Transcribed from the 1907 J. M. Dent edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk. Extra proofing by Margaret Price.

CRANFORD

CHAPTER I

--OUR SOCIETY

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by be

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