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.
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Literary Links of Interest for this chapter |
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- 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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