We are reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, chapter 5, with many thanks to our reader, Barbara Edleman. Book talk begins at 16:20 minutes. The first N&S episode is 331.

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Literary Links of Interest for this chapter:

The Thirty-Nine Articles in question.

Manchester = Milton-Northern

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