Publisher's Synopsis
Cranford is the sort of small city wherein all people knows the whole thing approximately absolutely everyone else. It is likewise a place with a hard and fast social hierarchy presided over by using a set of older ladies whose word about etiquette is law. One of the more youthful girls within the city, Mary Smith, is the narrator of the book and he or she manages to preserve abreast of all of the city happenings even when she is out of town because her buddies write to her and provide her all the updated facts.
