5/11/2023 0 Comments Cranford mrs gaskellHer monstrous father squandered three fortunes - his own, his wife's and £20,000 (the equivalent of £1.5 million today) - which Mary had won in a lottery at the age of ten. Miss Mitford wrote with wonderful enthusiasm about the people around her, though she herself had ample cause for bitterness. to learn to know and to love the people about us, with all their peculiarities, just as we learn to love the nooks and turns of the shady lanes and sunny commons that we pass every day!" where we know everyone, are known to everyone, interested in everyone, and authorised to hope that everyone feels an interest in us. "Of all situations for a constant residence," wrote Mary Russell Mitford, 'that which appears to me most delightful is a little village far in the country a small neighbourhood. Yet beneath their society's genteel pretensions was a kindness and sympathy towards each other, especially during the troubles and sorrows of which disease and premature death brought so many, which was beyond price.Ī few years before Mrs Gaskell, another wonderfully gifted writer chronicled the same world. That alliance, alas for both lonely souls, never did come off. She winced at the spectacle of Mr Holbrook (Michael Gambon), a rich farmer who wants to marry her even in her middle age, eating them off his knife. There was a touching little scene in last week's TV episode, in which Miss Matty (Judi Dench) struggled to eat her peas with a fork.
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