• Two of English writer Elizabeth Gaskell’s books are in this Kindle Cranford & North and South Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell portrays the residents of an English country town through a series of sketches that reveal their meddling, their dignity in reduced circumstances, and their old-fashioned habits and loyalties. We witness Matty's bankruptcy, the death of Captain Brown and the cruelty of Peter Jenkyns. It is a moving and satirical portrait of life in small town England. North and South Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire to the industrial north of England when her father leaves the church. For the first time, Margaret is introduced to poverty and develops a sense of social justice—and a sparring, stormy relationship with the mill owner. About The Author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 –1865) was a British author and the first to write a biography of Charlotte Bronte.