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🎤008-Cranford Ch 8-686-05.30.25

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tags: [shownotes, Cranford, Gaskell, cranford] release date: 2025-05-30

Podcast Literature Note: Cranford

Date: 2025-05-30

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Cranford — THE BEES!

Chapters

  • Starting Chapter: 8—Your Ladyship
  • Ending Chapter: 8

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  • 05:05 - CARD LINK out to Struthless’ channel,
    • “Doom and Bloom” GET BOOKSHOP.ORG link from Farley’s
    • Get fonts video link
  • 07:17 - CARD LINK out to ELSIE PATTERN I think there’s a better pic of the blouse online

ELSIE BLOUSE on WEARING HISTORY wearinghistory.com 08:50 - https://books.google.com/books?id=ULJCAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=waist+stay&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnqI6grKSNAxVCQzABHd2yHf84ChDoAXoECAUQAw Hope that helps! 10:40 - cool pollinator info to be found on sites like this Two-spotted Bumblebee on Coreopsis Donna Schmidt

13:40-Anya voice mail (love the speech visuals!)

BOOK TALK—Re-hash Notes

15:57 - Last week Visiting - RE-LISTEN

Pre-hash Notes

17:00 - Your Ladyship

  • Ended with Cherry Brandy (ha!) And Mrs Jamieson blurting out to everyone she would be hosting her SIL Lady Glenmire soon. 17:50 - shared subscription to newspaper

SOME REALLY CLEVER Austen-like wordplay in today’s chapter. A lot of fun!

Characters in Cranford (Updated for Chs. 6–8)

  • 18:25 - County families—the landed gentry in the county - you know…the only important people in the area :(
  • Miss Pole “I’ll think of something to say back to her… tonight…”—nothing changes HA!
  • 18:40 Peerage - prob refers to Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage (first pub was 1826!!!) Only 16 Scottish peers were SELECTED to sit in the House of Lords; 19:00 -comparison to Job - God takes everything from him then torments him some more.
  • 20:40 - The Arley’s - we learned that Lady Arley shopped at Betty Barker’s milliner shop last week and was part of why the shop eventually only served the well-to-do of Cranford ——which lets us know that there WAS a well-to-do set and our ladies are not they!
  • 22:00 - Fourth at pool - another card game
  • 22:45 - Sedulously-Dedication, diligence
  • 22:55 - “thought you might want a description of Mrs Smith, Her being a bride”. B/c often a bride’s 1st appearance in society after honeymoon she wore her dress.
  • 23:15 - nipped up her petticoats -
  • 25:10 - Mr Milliner - introduce him to listeners - ignored back door (GASP)
  • 25:15 - candle lighters as an excise LOL ALSO what’s she making them out of?!??? - EXCELLENT WAY TO USE OLD BILLS & LETTERS!
  • assumption no one will go LOL -
  • Poole’s rationalization to go to party 🤣 - don’t give her the satisfaction of hurting us (but mostly I HAVE A NEW CAP!!!)
  • 27:23 - Phlegmatic - Mrs Jamieson - of the Four Temperaments: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic - UNemotional
  • Very smart cap - Miss Pole -
  • Duty was to FIRST buy a new cap - everyone does b/c
  • when wearing a new cap, Cranford ladies were like Ostriches and didn’t care what was on their bodies - lol -
  • 28:00 - Brooches - popular now??
    • Dogs eyes -
    • Hair insides - Mausoleum/weeping willow
    • Stiff muslin - like brooch mounted on florettes
    • We’re brooches out of fashion??!? -
  • LISTEN to description of Miss Pole! HA!
    • Scotch pebbles - not really timely. Victoria bought Balmoral in 1848 and suddenly Scottish agates (found in stream beds with other semi-precious stones) were VERY popular
    • 30:00 HEATHER-GEMS LINK and picture
  • 30:45 - Hair powder Over his coat collar - started in 1715 and was WAY out of date by now
  • St James’ Chronicle is a 4-way shared subscription with Cranford ladies - Quarter share -
  • Mr Mulliner —ADD to cheat sheet -
  • He looked like a Sulky cockatoo. lol -
  • 31:25 - her furniture—Era predates-Louis 14th (1638-1715) - remember people were cheap, furniture was not
  • 32:12 - pembrook table - drop-leaf table
  • 32:45 - Kaleidoscope - invented in 1817 by Sir David Brewster; Conversation Cards and Puzzle Cards - seen in the Doctor sub-plot of the Mini-series/“Mr Harrisson’s Confessions (1851)
  • 34:30 - Drawings on tea chests - Might be Tole painting? might be like this (which happens to be japanned! A tinplate tea chest, c. 1760, painted with naturalistic flowers and containing two tinplate tea canisters and a sugar box. Private collection)
  • 36:35 - torpid - mentally OR physically inactive
  • Agreeable and not formally - seated
  • 36:40 - 10ÂŁ - would have purchased her whole ensemble - see below
  • A Lord, yet NOT a Lord - had become a common turn of phrase (A __- but not A ____), kind of like “because Reasons” has become shorthand in conversation.
  • Lady Glenmire and Mrs. Jaimeson - SIL
  • 41:05 - Small lumps of sugar - b/c sugar was lumped in-house, not purchased in pre-squared form
  • Preference, OmbrĂ©, Quadrille, Basto, Spadille - card games and Basto=Ace of Clubs is 3rd highest trump card in Ober and Quadrille. By playing it, Misss Pole makes Lady GLenmire use up the highest trump spadrille - the Ace of Spades
  • 41:50 - Mrs Forrester’s (of Cow fame) LACE STORY!
  • 43:00 - Catholic Emancipation Bill = 1829 gave Catholics access to certain public offices from which they had previously been barred. This would have exactly ZERO impact on the making of Brussels Lace. GET LEANNE TO TALK
  • 42:30 - Emetic + top-boot (in the early 1800s, Wellingtons were sometimes referred to as “top boots”. 42:50 - The term “top boots” was used for high-cut boots, often associated with riding or military wear, and Wellingtons were a popular type of boot in that category) - emetic causes vomiting (NOT as done in the mini-series)
  • 43:30 - astronomy/astrology - Francis Moor’s astrological predictions

Post-chapter Notes

  • Martha no family in town?
  • LOVE the “How do we address a Lady - I forgot!”
  • HA! Mrs Jaimeson seems pretty desperate for company by the time the ladies visit! HA!
    • LOVE Mulliner relationship with All The Women - ugh…mansplaining.
  • miss Pole’s triumphant first comment -
  • The DOG gets the cream!!?!? We were as intelligent and sensible as the dog - HA!!!
  • Mrs Forrester is wearing VOMIT LACE! HA!
  • LACE EPISODE PUT “PLAUSIBLE” on screen like mythbusters
  • LEANNE LACE VIDEO

Miscellaneous

Clothing costs research (some)

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