Cranford Group Read Invitation

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.

Katherine of the Elizabeth Gaskell Blog
requests the pleasure of your company as we visit the dear little town of Cranford each Tuesday from Nov. 9th through Dec. 14th

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Event Schedule

November 9th

• Welcome
• Cranford Writing & Publishing

November 16th – 22th

• Chapter 1 – Summary and Thoughts
• Chapter 2 – Summary and Thoughts
• Chapter 3 – Summary and Thoughts
• Betsy Barker’s Alderney Cow
• Music: Jock of Hazeldean
• “But don’t you forget the white worsted at Flints”
• Deborah the prophetess
• The Rasselas, the Rambler, & Just a few notes on Dr. Johnson
• Pickwick Papers Chapter 37
• Old Poz, the Parent’s Assistant by Maria Edgeworth
• “Leave me to Repose

November 23rd – 29th

• Chapter 4 – Summary and Thoughts
  
• Chapter 5 – Summary and Thoughts
  
• Chapter 6 – Summary and Thoguhts
• A Don Quixote Appearance
• Poetry: Goethe & Tennyson
• Blackwood’s Magazine
• The Honorable Mrs. Jamieson’s Mourning Cap
• “Paduasoy” – whatever that might be
• David & Goliah, and other Biblical metaphors
• Cowslip Wine

November 30th – December 6rd

• Chapter 7 – Summary and Thoughts
• Chapter 8 – Summary and Thoughts
  
• Chapter 9 – Summary and Thoughts
  
• Do you know what a calash is?
• Addressing Lady Glenmire
• Mrs Jamieson’s Furniture
• Wombwell’s Lions

December 7th – 12th

• Chapter 10 – Summary and Thoughts
• Chapter 11 – Summary and Thoughts
• Chapter 12 – Summary and Thoughts
  
• Chapter 13
  
• General Burgoyne
• Turbans in Victorian Fashion & Madame de Staël
• Lord Chesterfield’s Letters
• Surveying Mankind from China to Peru

December 13th – 14th

• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
  
• Tea: Congou, Souchong, Gunpowder, and Pekoe
• Sinbad the Sailor
• Event Wrap Up
• Review of BBC’s 2007 production of Cranford
• Review of Naxos Audiobooks Cranford

I hope that you will join us!