precursor and preview to its famous cousin Cranford", but one that is "by no means a perfectly crafted story". It has also been located as occurring "at a pivotal moment of recollection" which led from "the semi-factual reporting of her earlier "The Last Generation in England"" via her story Mr Harrison's Confession to its final transmutation into the novel. The culmination of such perceptions came when episodes drawn from these precursors, and from the later novella My Lady Ludlow, were combined in the five-part television series based on Cranford, first broadcast in 2007. References External links Mr. Harrison's Confessions, online text Ernest Albert Baker, The History of the English Novel, vol.8, (New York, 1950) Marie Fitzwilliam, "Mr Harrison's Confessions": A Study of the General Practitioner's Social and Professional Disease in Mid-Nineteenth Century England, The Gaskell Society Journal, vol.12 (1998), pp. 28–36 Short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell 1851 short stories Short stories adapted into films Medicine and health in fiction