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.
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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”
