Saturday, May 3, 2008

looks like another great Masterpiece

This Sunday night, Cranford (by Elizabeth Gaskill...also wrote Wives & Daughters...Kimber just introduced her to me this year) will be on Masterpiece Theatre. If you long for another trip back to the Dickens/Austen era, then this will be right up your alley.
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2 comments:

Kimberly said...

Thanks for the tip...we enjoyed it tonight! So many layers...loved it! Of course, hoping for some happiness to redeem the sad ending of Part I tonight...

May 4, 2008 at 8:44 PM
jenny said...

I loved it too! I read a review in the newspaper (which is how I heard about it in the first place) that said Gaskill's work is not as amusing or lighthearted as Austen's but not quite as severe as Dickens either. I think this work definitely shows a harsher view of the severe classism of those times (and our times more than we think).

I definitely am anxious to check out Wives & Daughters and give it a second go this summer. Thanks so much for introducing me to her stuff, Kimber!!

May 5, 2008 at 5:02 AM

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