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Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford (unabridged)

Read by Clare Wille

The BBC 1 costume-drama version shouldn’t put Wille’s telling of the original in the shade.

Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford (unabridged)

Read by Clare Wille

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About

In the village of Cranford, decorum is maintained at all times. Despite their poverty, the ladies are never vulgar about money (or their lack of it), and always follow the rules of propriety. But this discretion and gentility does not keep away tragedy; and when the worst happens, the Amazons of Cranford show the true strength of their honest affections. A masterpiece of social comedy, Cranford is as moving as it is funny, and as sharp as it is tender.

Contents and tracklist

Chapter 1: Our Society
Track length5:44
There were one or two consequences arising...
Track length5:43
Captain Brown had taken a small house...
Track length6:21
When the trays reappeared with biscuits and wine...
Track length4:28
Chapter 2: The Captain
Track length4:24
Such was the state of things when I left Cranford...
Track length4:29
My next visit to Cranford was in the summer.
Track length6:09
That afternoon we perceived little groups in the street...
Track length6:23
Miss Pole, Miss Matty, and I, meanwhile...
Track length5:45
We were both startled when Miss Jenkyns reappeared...
Track length5:44
Chapter 3: A Love Affair of Long Ago
Track length6:49
However, it so fell out that Fanny had to leave...
Track length7:43
And now I come to the love affair.
Track length5:40
Chapter 4: A Visit to an Old Bachelor
Track length5:57
We had pudding before meat...
Track length5:41
When we came back, nothing would serve him...
Track length4:55
Soon after this I took my leave...
Track length5:11
The next day Miss Pole brought us word that Mr. Holbrook...
Track length2:58
Chapter 5: Old Letters
Track length5:45
Miss Matty undid the packet with a sigh...
Track length5:55
There was a great gap before any of the rector’s letters...
Track length7:18
I can’t quite remember the date...
Track length5:16
Chapter 6: Poor Peter
Track length5:22
Miss Matty drew herself up, and as soon as we were alone...
Track length5:56
Presently my mother went to my father.
Track length5:21
‘The next day Deborah was at home before I was myself again.’
Track length7:06
‘Well, my dear, it’s very foolish of me...’
Track length6:15
Chapter 7: Visiting
Track length6:51
My prophetic soul foretold a visit that afternoon...
Track length5:00
The spring evenings were getting bright and long...
Track length6:32
Presently the door was thrown wide open...
Track length3:58
Chapter 8: Your Ladyship
Track length5:52
In coming out of church, the first Sunday...
Track length6:03
The expenditure on dress in Cranford..
Track length6:45
We were all very silent at first.
Track length4:53
As a proof of how thoroughly we had forgotten…
Track length5:47
Chapter 9: Signor Brunoni
Track length4:51
Miss Pole was always the person...
Track length7:09
The next evening we were all in a gentle flutter...
Track length5:15
But we had not time for more conversation...
Track length5:27
Chapter 10: The Panic
Track length5:49
One afternoon, about five o’clock, we were startled...
Track length4:48
When Lady Glenmire came, we almost felt jealous of her.
Track length5:27
Miss Pole was very much inclined to install herself...
Track length5:53
But when the evening came...
Track length4:42
Still this was no confession...
Track length5:00
Chapter 11: Samuel Brown
Track length5:11
Before Miss Pole left us, Miss Matty and I...
Track length5:30
We were all of us far too full of the signor’s precarious state.
Track length4:46
‘My father once made us,’ she began...
Track length5:11
‘Have you been in India?’ said I, rather astonished.
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Chapter 12: Engaged to be Married
Track length5:31
We were sitting – Miss Matty and I – much as usual...
Track length7:39
Mrs Forrester surprised us in our darned caps...
Track length5:49
Chapter 13: Stopped Payment
Track length6:02
It was a very uncomfortable subject to me...
Track length6:01
I never saw a man’s countenance fall so suddenly...
Track length5:24
We inspected the fashions...
Track length3:56
We had neither of us much appetite for dinner...
Track length5:44
Chapter 14: Friends in Need
Track length5:45
I found Miss Matty very quiet, and not a little sad...
Track length4:34
Miss Matty had a few little peculiarities...
Track length5:04
‘Please ma’am,’ said Martha...
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The next morning, very early, I received a note from Miss Pole…
Track length6:44
When the ceremony had been gone through…
Track length6:06
I am not going to weary you with the details...
Track length6:45
Chapter 15: A Happy Return
Track length5:10
But to return to Miss Matty.
Track length4:32
About a year after Miss Matty set up shop...
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Martha was beginning to go about again..
Track length7:02
Long, long into the night far, far into the morning...
Track length4:26
Chapter 16: Peace to Cranford
Track length7:14
There had been some talk of establishing Martha and Jem...
Track length5:24
When I got back to Miss Matty’s...
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The BBC 1 costume-drama version shouldn’t put Wille’s telling of the original in the shade.

for once, in Clare Wille, they’ve got the right-aged reader.
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