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All about the BBC TV show Cranford!

In the words of Mary Smith, "All around the world shifts and changes, but Cranford stands fast. Women are like Amazons, and to those who live here, it is the world entire."

Set in the early 1840s in the fictional village of Cranford in the county of Cheshire in North West England, the story focuses primarily on the town's single and widowed middle class female inhabitants who are comfortable with their traditional way of life and place great store in propriety and maintaining an appearance of gentility.

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About the BBC show Cranford
Cranford (and Return to Cranford, a two-part christmas special) is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, and Mr Harrison's Confessions. (The Last Generation in England was also used as a source.)

The series was transmitted in five parts in the UK by BBC in November and December 2007. In the United States, it was broadcast in three episodes by PBS as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series in May 2008.

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