# Cranford

Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell has 70,911 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Elizabeth Gaskell.

- **Author:** [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell](https://musael.com/books/authors/elizabeth-cleghorn-gaskell.md) (1810–1865)
- **First published:** 1851
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 70,911
- **Reading time:** 4 h 44 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 37 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 55 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 44 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 56 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

Cranford is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elizabeth-gaskell/cranford
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/394
- LibriVox audiobook (6 h 7 min): https://librivox.org/cranford-by-elizabeth-gaskell/

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 71,441
- Chapters: 16
- Dialogue: 27% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 25.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elizabeth-gaskell/cranford (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/394 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q265100
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranford_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1103093W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/394

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/cranford