Penguin, London, 1994, 1st pr thus.  Penguin Popular Classics.  ISBN 0-14-062059-1.  MMPB, 228 pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, creases, corner creases and reading creases; binding sound with a slight lean.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; one straightened dog ear.  ‘Cranford explores the dying way of life of the ‘Amazons’ – unwarlike maiden ladies and widows of a certain age.  They practise elegant economies; their days are passed in visits, cards and genteel gossip.  But alongside the comedy is the pathos of restricted lives borne with courage.’ (from rear wrap)