The Last Generation in England

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The Last Generation in England is a non-fiction article by Elizabeth Gaskell, published in the American Sartain's Union Magazine in July 1849, relating memories of a small country town in the generation prior to her own. As such, it is seen as the real-life background for her novel Cranford. Feeling she was living through a time of great and rapid change, she was inspired to write it by reading that a history of English domestic life had once been considered by the author Thomas Southey.

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Works by Elizabeth Gaskell
Novels:
Mary Barton (1848) • Cranford (1851–3) • Ruth (1853) • North and South (1854–5) • Sylvia's Lovers (1863) • Wives and Daughters (1865)
Short story collections:
The Moorland Cottage (1850) • The Old Nurse's Story (1852) • Lizzie Leigh (1855) • My Lady Ludlow (1859) • Round the Sofa (1859) • Lois the Witch (1861) • A Dark Night's Work (1863)
Short stories (partial):
"Christmas Storms and Sunshine" (1848) • "Mr. Harrison's Confessions" (1851) • "The Squire's Story" (1853) • "Half a Life-time Ago" (1855) • "An Accursed Race" (1855) • "The Manchester Marriage" (1858) • "The Half-brothers" (1859) • "The Grey Woman" (1861) • "Cousin Phillis" (1864)
Non-fiction:
The Last Generation in England (1849) • The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)