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I kept waiting for something *more* to happen in this plot but it was pretty uneventful.

This story is set in 1691 and it was inspired about what happened during the Salem witch hunt. It is a sad story but so well described how dangerous, terrible was this collective hysteria.
Slow read to me t due to the writing style but it was so interesting and the story motivates to seek more information about this period of time.
3.5/3.8⭐️

Yes this was very much a Victorian melodrama, and I fully see the argument that this was a weaker earlier precursor to Tess of the d‘Urbervilles, but I love Gaskell‘s writing and I loved this. Surprisingly progressive to see a fallen woman helped into a meaningful life by a disabled man who was never treated as pathetic or monstrous by the narrative - my heart was in my throat so much.

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"I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me."

They call it an industrial 'Pride and Prejudice'. Placed somewhere between the socialist realisation of Dickens and the female oriented romantic narratives of Austen, Gaskell offers a perfect balance between so many binaries.

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Book 4. Finished “My Lady Ludlow”, the second country life novel in “The Cranford Chronicles “ book. This one was very slow for me, but full of little heart warming and heart wrenching gems Gaskell writes so well.

How did I not know of this book‘s existence before now? I love Cranford. I so enjoyed returning to that little village and seeing the world through an outsider‘s eye.

Sweet and easy read, enjoyed it very much

Fun fact: the guy who sold it to me was absolutely sure the title was Elizabeth Gaskell and the author was Mary Barton 😂 #MaryBarton #ElizabethGaskell

Bought this one at a university fair three years ago, and it's been lying on my shelf ever since *facepalm*. Well, better late than never. #MaryBarton #ElizabethGaskell