Cranford (novel)
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Elizabeth Gaskell had not done entirely with Knutsford with the publication of ''Cranford''. Thomas Higgins, an 18th-century highwayman and former inhabitant of the town, was made the subject of "The Squire’s Story", published in the Christmas 1853 number of ''Household Words'', although it was there set in the fictitious Derbyshire town of Barford.Chadwick, p. 56 Then years later she made the arrival of the [[hoop skirt]] the subject of an additional farcical episode in "The Cage at Cranford", published by Dickens in his new magazine ''[[All the Year Round]]'' in November 1863.''All the Year Round'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=bd0NAAAAQAAJ vol.10, pp. 332–336] |
Elizabeth Gaskell had not done entirely with Knutsford with the publication of ''Cranford''. Thomas Higgins, an 18th-century highwayman and former inhabitant of the town, was made the subject of "The Squire’s Story", published in the Christmas 1853 number of ''Household Words'', although it was there set in the fictitious Derbyshire town of Barford.Chadwick, p. 56 Then years later she made the arrival of the [[hoop skirt]] the subject of an additional farcical episode in "The Cage at Cranford", published by Dickens in his new magazine ''[[All the Year Round]]'' in November 1863.''All the Year Round'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=bd0NAAAAQAAJ vol.10, pp. 332–336] |
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Theatrical adaptations of the novel began at the turn of the century, the first few of which were produced in the US.Recchio p. 253 ff Among these were Alice Byington's ''Cranford Dames'', a play in five scenes (New York, 1900),[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t11n8kd0c&view=1up&seq=4 |
Theatrical adaptations of the novel began at the turn of the century, the first few of which were produced in the US.Recchio p. 253 ff Among these were Alice Byington's ''Cranford Dames'', a play in five scenes (New York, 1900),[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t11n8kd0c&view=1up&seq=4 HathiTrust] and [[Marguerite Merington]]'s ''Cranford: A Play'', a three-act comedy set in the time of [[William IV]], (New York 1905).[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxdicp&view=1up&seq=2 HathiTrust] Some of the later British examples were merely dramatic episodes and included "The Bank Breaks" by Arthur Phosphor Mallam (1872–1948), based on chapters 13–15 (1912); Guy Pertwee's "A Cranford Card Party" (1913); Harry Brighouse's 'Cranford sketch', "Followers" (1915); and Amy M. Robertson's "The Panic from ''Cranford''" (1930), based on chapter 10. 1930 also saw the tangential 'play for boys', ''Higgins, the Highwayman of Cranford'', by [[Ronald Gow]]. |
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In America the novel was adapted for [[NBC]] radio in 1946. Martyn Coleman's three-act play for theatre, first produced in 1951, was adapted for British television that year. Subsequently, a four-part television adaptation from the novel was broadcast by [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] in 1972. There was also a British musical based on the novel staged in 1975 and another broadcast by [[Thames Television]] in 1976.Recchio, pp. 185–186 |
In America the novel was adapted for [[NBC]] radio in 1946. Martyn Coleman's three-act play for theatre, first produced in 1951, was adapted for British television that year. Subsequently, a four-part television adaptation from the novel was broadcast by [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] in 1972. There was also a British musical based on the novel staged in 1975 and another broadcast by [[Thames Television]] in 1976.Recchio, pp. 185–186 |
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