The story follows the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters in the fictional town of Cranford closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well.
Two Years Before the Mast : Enriched edition. A Vivid First-Person Maritime Memoir of Hardship, Labor, and Transformation on an Early 19th-Century Voyage
