Gaskell, Elizabeth C & Dixon, A A [illustrator] — Cranford

The British India Publishing Company, Calcutta nd c 1940 reprint. Faux leather, G. 305pp, b/w frontis, 4 b/w plates, binding bright, some worming, a reading copy. The text block is that of Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics series, here called the 'Masterpieces of Literature' & intended for the colonial market. Mrs Gaskell's fictional account of life in & around Knutsford in Cheshire in the mid Victorian era. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [ 1810 - 1865 ]. Popular English novelist noted for her realism & the potrayal of the lives of the very poor in Victorian England.