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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[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

Heh - I've been enjoying Cranford a lot, but it was a wee bit focused, wasn't it?

Although... I went and read the original last week (I have to confess I hadn't heard of it until three weeks ago), and there was a definite addition of happy endings to the TV version.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes, from very vague memory it's Greatest Tragedies culled from several novels. They should have the Happy Moments edition ;-)