Ep. 686: Cranford | Chapter 8
Book talk begins at 15:54
Lady Glenmire (a real baron’s widow!) is in town, and the Cranford ladies can’t decide whether to curtsey or completely ignore her—Mrs. Jamieson prefers the latter.
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8:01 – ELSIE BLOUSE on WEARING HISTORY wearinghistory.com
8:50 – American Dressmaking Step by Step book. Hope that helps!
10:40 – cool pollinator info to be found on sites like this! And Two-spotted Bumblebee on Coreopsis from Donna Schmidt
13:48-Anya’s voice mail
BOOK TALK—Re-hash Notes
15:57 – Last week Visiting – RE-LISTEN
Pre-hash Notes
17:00 – Your Ladyship. Ended with Cherry Brandy (ha!) And Mrs Jamieson blurting out to everyone she would be hosting her SIL Lady Glenmire soon.
17:50 – shared subscription to newspaper. SOME REALLY CLEVER Austen-like wordplay in today’s chapter. A lot of fun!
Characters in *Cranford* (Updated for Chs. 6–8)
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18:25 – County families—the landed gentry in the county – you know…the only important people in the area 🙁
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Miss Pole “I’ll think of something to say back to her… tonight…”—nothing changes HA!
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18:40 Peerage – prob refers to Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage (first pub was 1826!!!) Only 16 Scottish peers were SELECTED to sit in the House of Lords; 19:00 -comparison to Job – God takes everything from him then torments him some more.
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20:40 – The Arley’s – we learned that Lady Arley shopped at Betty Barker’s milliner shop last week and was part of why the shop eventually only served the well-to-do of Cranford ——which lets us know that there WAS a well-to-do set and our ladies are not they!
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22:00 – Fourth at pool – another card game
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22:45 – Sedulously-Dedication, diligence
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22:55 – “thought you might want a description of Mrs Smith, Her being a bride”. B/c often a bride’s 1st appearance in society after honeymoon she wore her dress.
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23:15 – ***nipped up her petticoats*** –
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25:10 – Mr Milliner – introduce him to listeners – ignored back door (GASP)
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25:15 – candle lighters as an excise LOL ALSO what’s she making them out of?!??? – EXCELLENT WAY TO USE OLD BILLS & LETTERS!
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Assumption no one will go LOL –
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Poole’s rationalization to go to party 🤣 – don’t give her the satisfaction of hurting us (but mostly I HAVE A NEW CAP!!!)
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27:23 – Phlegmatic – Mrs Jamieson – of the Four Temperaments: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic – UNemotional
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Very smart cap – Miss Pole –
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Duty was to FIRST buy a new cap – everyone does b/c
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when wearing a new cap, Cranford ladies were like Ostriches and didn’t care what was on their bodies – lol –
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28:00 – Brooches – popular now??
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Dogs eyes –
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Hair insides – Mausoleum/weeping willow
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Stiff muslin – like brooch mounted on florettes
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We’re brooches out of fashion??!? –
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30:00- LISTEN to the description of Miss Pole! HA!
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Scotch pebbles – not really timely. Victoria bought Balmoral in 1848 and suddenly Scottish agates (found in stream beds with other semi-precious stones) were VERY popular
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30:45 – Hair powder Over his coat collar – started in 1715 and was WAY out of date by now
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*St James’ Chronicle* is a 4-way shared subscription with Cranford ladies – Quarter share –
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Mr Mulliner —ADD to cheat sheet –
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He looked like a Sulky cockatoo. lol –
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31:25 – her furniture—Era predates-Louis 14th (1638-1715) – remember people were cheap, furniture was not
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32:12 – pembrook table – drop-leaf table
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32:45 – Kaleidoscope – invented in 1817 by Sir David Brewster; Conversation Cards and Puzzle Cards – seen in the Doctor sub-plot of the Mini-series/“Mr Harrisson’s Confessions (1851)
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34:30 – Drawings on tea chests – Might be Tole painting? might be like this (which happens to be ***japanned!*** A tinplate tea chest, c. 1760, painted with naturalistic flowers and containing two tinplate tea canisters and a sugar box. Private collection)
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36:35 – torpid – mentally OR physically inactive
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Agreeable and not formally – seated
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36:40 – 10£ – would have purchased her whole ensemble – see below
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A Lord, yet NOT a ***Lord*** – had become a common turn of phrase (A __- but not A ____), kind of like “because Reasons” has become shorthand in conversation.
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Lady Glenmire and Mrs. Jaimeson – SIL
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41:05 – Small lumps of sugar – b/c sugar was lumped in-house, not purchased in pre-squared form
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Preference, Ombré, Quadrille, ***Basto***, Spadille – card games and Basto=Ace of Clubs is 3rd highest trump card in Ober and Quadrille. By playing it, Misss Pole makes Lady GLenmire use up the highest trump spadrille – the Ace of Spades
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41:50 – Mrs Forrester’s (of Cow fame) LACE STORY!
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43:00 – Catholic Emancipation Bill = 1829 gave Catholics access to certain public offices from which they had previously been barred. This would have exactly ZERO impact on the making of Brussels Lace.
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42:30 – Emetic + top-boot *(in the early 1800s, Wellingtons were sometimes referred to as “top boots”. 42:50 – The term “top boots” was used for high-cut boots, often associated with riding or military wear, and Wellingtons were a popular type of boot in that category)* – emetic causes vomiting (NOT as done in the mini-series)
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43:30 – astronomy/astrology – Francis Moor’s astrological predictions
Post-chapter Notes
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Martha no family in town?
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LOVE the “How do we address a Lady – I forgot!”
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HA! Mrs Jaimeson seems pretty desperate for company by the time the ladies visit! HA!
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– LOVE Mulliner relationship with All The Women – ugh…mansplaining.
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miss Pole’s triumphant first comment –
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The DOG gets the cream!!?!? We were as intelligent and sensible as the dog – HA!!!
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Mrs Forrester is wearing VOMIT LACE! HA!
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LACE EPISODE PUT “PLAUSIBLE” on screen like mythbusters
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LEANNE LACE VIDEO
Additional notes for the lace video at the end:
Miscellaneous
Clothing costs research (some)
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Cunnington, C. Willett. *English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century* (1937)
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Ribeiro, Aileen. *Dress and Morality* (1986)
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