Good god, Elizabeth Gaskell!

[blamebrampton]

Death, death, death and a bit more death! 

Why yes, I am watching Cranford and remembering why I was so horribly scarred in the days I was reading through the Gaskell oeuvre ... So many magnificent male characters, each cut off just as his life reached the possibility of happiness. And no, leaving Jem and Dr Harrison to have happy endings is not sufficient recompense.

Elizabeth Gaskell. Great-Grandmother of Emos everywhere ...

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[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

You make me laugh. :)

I saw the ad for Cranford tonight and thought 'Oh, look, that's where old Austen cast members go to die ...'

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You may well be right. (It's certainly one of the silliest periods of costumes for women!) Lost in Austen next week, ah ABC, it's as though I never left England some days.