Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Such a weird little book...given my proclivity for novels set in this time I was willing to go along with it but once I was done I was like-What did I just do?  At the end of the day this was really a set of vingettes that take place when a occasional visitor to a small town makes her observations.  After having read W&D, its almost like Gaskell was setting up the town in which she later set Molly Gibson and her father into.  Scholars