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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Cranford
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(1853) Vignettes by Mrs *Gaskell, serialized in *Household Words 1851–3. They add up to a delightful novel, low-keyed but sharp-eyed, about a group of middle-aged and middle-class people, almost all female, in a fictionalized version of the small town of Knutsford, in Cheshire, where the author herself grew up. The central character is Matilda Jenkyns, known as Miss Matty.
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