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 ...

Comments

[deensey.livejournal.com]

this is why we love her?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I thought that was because Richard Armitage is a natural piece of casting for her adaptations?

[deensey.livejournal.com]

That too. Oh, yes, that too.

Just no killing him.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That should be a rule.