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  1. Cranford is a British comedy drama series that adapts three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell set in a fictional village in the 1840s. The series features a large ensemble cast of female characters and explores their lives, loves and challenges in a changing society.

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  2. Cranford is an episodic novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published with minor revisions as a book with the title Cranford in 1853.

  3. In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip, and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.

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  4. Cranford is a suburban area in west London, near Heathrow Airport. It has a history of being a Saxon village, a Templar estate, and a Berkeley family property, and now has a park, a lock-up, and a shopping parade.

  5. Judi Dench, Philip Glenister, Francesca Annis and Michael Gambon star in Elizabeth Gaskell's five-part period drama which follows the small absurdities and m...

  6. Harkening back to memories of her childhood in the small Cheshire town of Knutsford, Cranford is Elizabeth Gaskell's affectionate portrait of people and customs that were already becoming anachronisms. Chapter 1 – Our Society. Chapter 2 – The Captain. Chapter 3 – A Love Affair of Long Ago.

  7. Cranford Series Two Trailer BBC Christmas 2009. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone Judi Dench, Philip Glenister, Francesca Annis and Michael Gambon star in Elizabeth Gaskell's five-part period drama ...