There were nine editions of Cranford during EG
's lifetime, but another 160 appeared between her death and 1947 (almost as many in the USA as in Britain), and it appeared twice in German translations...
Reception
Elizabeth Gaskell
The quality of EG
's fiction was recognised early by her contemporaries. George Eliot
exempted her, along with Harriet Martineau
and Charlotte Brontë
, from the ranks of Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, noting...
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Texts
Recchio, Thomas. “"Charming and Sane": School Editions of Cranford in America, 1905-1914”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
45
, No. 4, 2003, pp. 597-23.
Recchio, Thomas. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, A Publishing History. Ashgate, 2009.