We are reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, chapter 25, with many thanks to our reader, Barbara Edleman. Book talk begins at 19:20 minutes.

The first N&S episode is 331.

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Literary Links of Interest for this chapter

• Jellies
• Various Victorian Medicine Sites
• History of Victorian Pharmacies
• Pills, Custard, and Plaster
• Early Victorian Era Make-up
• Knobhead = “scab” – crosses picket line to work
• Purring = “kicking” as in a fight
• “Clem” = “starve”
• Re: Pebbles—de·no·ta·tion (dēnōˈtāSHən) noun — the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
  “beyond their immediate denotation, the words have a connotative power”
  con·no·ta·tion (känəˈtāSHən) noun — an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
  “the word “discipline” has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression”

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