Note to Self: Watch on PBS

Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford stories: Guardian Review: "Band of Women".

One of the very first of the Industrial Revolution-era "condition of England" novelists. Thrown in her youth into Manchester as a minister's wife.

Cf. David Lodge, Nice Work.

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[robertdfeinman]

Not her best novel to illustrate the genre, that would be "North and South". Cranford allows for a big collection of "characters" and overacting while "North and South" might bring up parallels to today that the powers who control Masterpiece Theater would rather avoid.