One day Signor Brunoni, a conjurer, comes to Cranford. Jamieson isn’t happy about the second marriage of her sister in law. This marriage causes a lot of friction because Mrs. Lady Glenmire is a fancy lady all the women in Cranford love her. Jamieson, who is a dear fried of Miss Matty. There is a lot commotion around Lady Glenmire. Miss Matty is devastated when she hears the news. But this trip is too much for him and he dies. He has always wanted to see Paris once in his life, so at his old age he travels all the way to France. In chapter IV Miss Matty goes to visit Mr. Miss Matty will always feel a feeling of loss and this is the reason she never got married her whole life. After a few weeks she feels regret, but it is too late. She was very young at the time and when he asked her to marry him, she got scared and said no. Miss Matty was once in love with a man, Mr. For a long time everyone assumed he was dead, till, at the end of the book, he comes back to his town of birth and to his sister Mathilda. And Peter left England to go live in India. Peter had always been a very outgoing, spontaneous person, but in a small town like Cranford, there is no place for such people. He ran away from home after a fight with his father. Miss Matty has lost her older brother Peter when she was very young. But fortunately for her, Miss Matty has the company of Mary Smith, who loves to spend some months in Cranford now and then. From now on she doesn’t have the help of her older sister anymore she has to manage all her ‘politeness problems’ by herself. The sisters used to live together and this loss is a big shock for Miss Matty. In the beginning of the book, Mathilda Jenkyn (or Miss Matty for close friends) looses her older sister Deborah Jenkyns. Mary herself is not originally from Cranford, she lives in an other town with her father. Mary Smith lodges at lady Mathilda Jenkyn’s place. She doesn’t tell anything about her own feelings or thoughts she just reports all the occurrences in chronological order. The story is written through the eyes of Mary Smith, she tells the story about the life of the women in Cranford. There are no great events that attract special attention. This story is comparable with a small rippling stream.
You can tell by the way people live, the way of transport and the polite manners of the main characters. The time this story plays is the mid-19th century. Al the events in this book take place in the proper houses of the best friends of the narrator.
No man ever felt comfortable enough to settle in Cranford, because of the female society. In Cranford, all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women. The whole story takes place in Cranford, a small imaginary town in the north-west of England. Cranford, Longmans, London W.1., 1958, 234 paged (first published in 1958)
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