We are reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, chapter 17, with many thanks to our reader, Barbara Edleman. Book talk begins at 8:45 minutes.

The first N&S episode is 331.

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Literary Links of Interest for this chapter

• A taste of Victorian Child Labour Laws… (to show to your kids when they think they’ve got it bad).
• skin off a flint and some of the odd theories…

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