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Cranford eBook
64,980 words, approx. 217 pages
 The complete online text of Cranford by Thomas More.




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Biography of Thomas More, Sir
1086 words, approx. 3.6 pages
 The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the religious policy of Henry VIII. Thomas More was born...
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Biography of Sir Thomas More
9555 words, approx. 31.9 pages
 Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritual works in Latin and English and thereby contributed...
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Biography of Sir Thomas More
3778 words, approx. 12.6 pages
 Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature to produce a new literature keyed to his age; second,...


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Cranford Information
655 words, approx. 2 pages
 Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles...




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 The Daily Mail (London, England)
Welcome to Cranford...
04/20/2007: 338 words, approx. 1 pages Byline: BAZ BAMIGBOYE PHILIP GLENISTER went back to 1973 in the hit cop drama Life On Mars, but he's going back much further in The Cranford Chronicles - all the way back to 1843. There's no time travel involved, though. The...
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Gillian Anderson to host `Masterpiece'
12/11/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages After 37 years, PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre" is getting spruced up.The revered anthology series will be split into three mini-seasons, each with its own theme and host — one of whom is Gillian Anderson, already familiar to "Masterpiece" fans for her 2006 performance as Lady Dedlock...
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 AP Features
Rose festivals and gardens
5/14/2007: 800 words, approx. 3 pages June is the month when everything comes up roses. All over the country, there are rose festivals, rose tours, and rose bushes heavy with blossoms, from Elizabeth Park in West Hartford, Conn., the oldest municipal rose garden in the country, to Portland, Ore., which is...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Dennis W. Allen
10,099 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following excerpt, Allen studies Victorian anxieties concerning sexuality and traditional gender roles as they are represented in Cranford.
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Critical Essay by Hilary M. Schor
9,187 words, approx. 31 pages
 In the following essay, Schor analyzes Cranford as an experimental woman's narrative concerned with the cultural factors of women as writers and readers.
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Critical Essay by Adrienne E. Gavin
9,160 words, approx. 31 pages
 In the following essay, Gavin discusses how the Cranford women create oral fictions while their male counterparts are merely readers and quoters.


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