Inside the story
Meet Peter Jenkyns
Peter Jenkyns is the long-lost brother of the Jenkyns sisters, absent from Cranford for decades after running away as a mischievous boy. Now a wealthy man from India, he returns with a store of tales and the old family connection still linking him to his sisters.
On the page
As a youth, a handsome, high-spirited practical joker; as the returned old man, a sun-browned, weather-beaten, white-haired gentleman with an exotic, faintly Oriental air and dress, animated when telling wonderful travellers' stories.
