Mary Smith

About Miss Mary Smith, the young lady from Manchester who comes to live with the Misses Deborah and Matty Jenkyns.

Description
In her very early 20s, Mary is a level-headed, kind girl, and fits right in to the unchanging society in Cranford. Her mother died when she was eight and her father remarried and has a second family. She describes herself as "indiscreet and incautious." She is portrayed by Lisa Dillon.

Relationships
Mary comes from a large family, her father, Mr. Smith, stepmother, Mrs. Clara Smith, and 5 children, the oldest only seven years old. Her relationship with Mrs. Smith is hardly satisfactory--Mary only wishing to be left alone, and her stepmother constantly trying to marry her off.

She is very good friends with Deborah and Matty Jenkyns, who knew her as a child before her mother died and her father remarried. She also becomes good friends with Sophy Hutton.

Dr. Marshland, who comes to Cranford, seems to take a slight interest in Mary but it never comes to anything. They correspond about the spectacles Mary must wear for her astigmatism, but other than that their relationship is only friendly.

In Return to Cranford, Mary becomes engaged to a Mr. Turnbull, only to break off the engagement later, much to her stepmother's disapproval.

Episodes present
Episode 1 (Cranford)

Episode 2 (Cranford)

Episode 3 (Cranford)

Episode 4 (Cranford)

Episode 5 (Cranford)

Episode 6 (Return to Cranford)

Episode 7 (Return to Cranford)