SOURCE: “Language Among the Amazons: Conjuring and Creativity in Cranford,” in Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. 23, 1994, pp. 205-25.
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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