![]() ![]() ![]() Thereafter Mrs Gaskell added eight further episodes over the next 18 months, with an eight-month gap between the sections ending at what is now chapter 8 (written between December 1851 and April 1852) and the later sections (written between January and May 1853). Seeing the possibilities of a longer work in the piece, which eventually formed the first two chapters of her novel, Charles Dickens, the magazine's editor, encouraged the author to write more episodes. These accounts of life in a country town and the old-fashioned class snobbery prevailing there were carried over into what was originally intended simply as another story, published as "Our Society in Cranford" in the magazine Household Words in December 1851. She had already drawn on her childhood memories for an article published in America, " The Last Generation in England" (1849), and for the town of Duncombe which featured in her extended story " Mr. The fictional Cranford is based on the small Cheshire town of Knutsford in which Elizabeth Gaskell grew up. ![]()
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