Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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12/22/22

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Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.

The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well. The book has little in the way of plot and is more a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters. The 'major' event in the story is the return to Cranford of their long-lost brother, Peter, which in itself is only a minor portion of the work...

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:52) Chapter 02

(00:51:21) Chapter 03

(01:09:08) Chapter 04

(01:30:42) Chapter 05

(01:52:54) Chapter 06

(02:16:37) Chapter 07

(02:37:21) Chapter 08

(03:02:56) Chapter 09

(03:22:27) Chapter 10

(03:50:04) Chapter 11

(04:12:36) Chapter 12

(04:28:58) Chapter 13

(04:51:01) Chapter 14

(05:26:06) Chapter 15

(05:51:11) Chapter 16

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Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 22, 2022

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233m

Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: drama

In a quiet corner of rural England, young Paul Manning begins his first job on a new railway line, commuting between the noise of industry and the calm of his relatives' farm. There he meets Cousin Phillis Holman, a gifted, well-read minister's daughter whose life is shaped by hard work, faith, and the close-knit rhythms of family. Phillis is intelligent and passionate, yet sheltered, and Paul quickly finds himself drawn into the warmth of the Holman household and the subtle tensions that come with a changing world. When an older engineer arrives, bringing wider experience and an easy charm, Paul becomes an uneasy witness to shifting affections and unspoken hopes. As the railway pushes forward, so do questions about duty, love, and the cost of awakening to feelings that cannot be neatly managed. Elizabeth Gaskell paints a tender, realistic portrait of first love, friendship, and moral responsibility, set against the contrast between pastoral tradition and modern progress, where small choices carry lasting emotional weight.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:24:38) Chapter 2

(00:54:05) Chapter 3

(01:25:47) Chapter 4

(01:51:28) Chapter 5

(02:15:40) Chapter 6

(02:35:20) Chapter 7

(03:08:15) Chapter 8

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Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

December 22, 2022

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213m

Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: comedy

It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for a while as a young woman. This assertion is born out by an essay she wrote in 1849 entitled The Last Generation in England, in which she writes about 'The town in which I once resided ...'. There can be little doubt when reading this that it provided her with the template for Cranford.

In 1851 the year she began to write Cranford, she also wrote a novella entitled Mr. Harrison's Confessions. It describes the life of a country doctor in a small provincial town. Mrs. Gaskell's model for this town could also only have been Knutsford which she knew and loved so well. The story revolves around the arrival in the town of a young doctor and the attempts of the ladies of the town to place his status within their society and of course to find him a suitable wife. It is often thought of as a prequel to Cranford

Both of these pieces together with the novels, My Lady Ludlow and Cranford were used by the BBC to create the Television series Cranford in 2007.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:22:14) Chapter 2

(00:53:34) Chapter 3

(01:11:17) Chapter 4

(01:36:12) Chapter 5

(01:57:37) Chapter 6

(02:17:14) Chapter 7

(02:41:36) Chapter 8

(03:03:08) Chapter 9