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  • Novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
    In Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    … where her next major work, Cranford (1853), appeared. This social history of a gentler era, which describes, without sentimentalizing or satirizing, her girlhood village of Knutsford and the efforts of its shabby-genteel inhabitants to keep up appearances, has remained her most popular work.

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set in Knutsford