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{{Short description|Non-fiction article by Elizabeth Gaskell}}
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'''"The Last Generation in England"''' is a non-fiction article by [[Elizabeth Gaskell]], published in the American ''[[Sartain's Magazine|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 1853 novel ''[[Cranford (novel)|Cranford]]''.{{by whom|date=January 2021}}  Recognising she was living through a time of great and rapid change, Gaskell was inspired to write the article by reading that the author [[Robert Southey]] had himself once considered composing a history of English domestic life.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

==External links==
*[http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/54/49.pdf "The Last Generation in England"], first page
*{{cite news|first=Jenny|last=Uglow|work=The Guardian|title= Band of women|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2204287,00.html|date=3 November 2007|accessdate=2007-11-06 }}

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