![]() ![]() On Mary’s visits to her sweet, impoverished friend Miss Matti, they knit in the dark–Matti claims she can knit without seeing– and light only a single candle when Matti admits night has fallen beyond a shadow of a doubt. (But her descriptions are tongue-in-cheek.) Money is never discussed in Cranford, and it is considered “vulgar” to serve expensive food at the evening entertainments, which end very early because everyone keeps such early hours. Mary is so precise that she has almost an anthropological turn of mind. And men take a secondary place to them, except for the doctor. ![]() ![]() Yes, the residents are mostly ladies, some of whom live in genteel poverty. The narrator, Mary Smith, a former resident of Cranford, wittily explains and analyzes the domestic arrangements and social doings of the “Amazons” in Cranford. But I discovered Cranford is a delight when I broke down and perused it over the holidays. ![]()
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