Ep. 686: Cranford | Chapter 8
Book talk begins at 15:54
Lady Glenmire (a real baron's widow!) is in town, and the Cranford ladies can't decide whether to curtsey or completely ignore her—Mrs. Jamieson prefers the latter.
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00:00 Episode start
1:55 - MAY RAFFLE - Sir Walter Scott Cross stitch from Rebecca S (Of Book it with Becca)
2:25 - Send your crafty videos: https://bit.ly/craftlit-be-crafty
4:45 - Plum Deluxe Tea-CraftLit's Discount Code! https://bit.ly/craftlit-pdtea
5:05 - Doom and Bloom book,
5:35 - Struthless's YouTube channel
8:01 - ELSIE BLOUSE on WEARING HISTORY wearinghistory.com
8:50 - American Dressmaking Step by Step book. Hope that helps!
10:40 - cool pollinator info to be found on sites like this! And Two-spotted Bumblebee on Coreopsis from Donna Schmidt
13:48-Anya's voice mail
BOOK TALK—Re-hash Notes
15:57 - Last week Visiting - RE-LISTEN
Pre-hash Notes
17:00 - Your Ladyship. Ended with Cherry Brandy (ha!) And Mrs Jamieson blurting out to everyone she would be hosting her SIL Lady Glenmire soon.
17:50 - shared subscription to newspaper. SOME REALLY CLEVER Austen-like wordplay in today's chapter. A lot of fun!
Characters in *Cranford* (Updated for Chs. 6–8)
18:25 - County families—the landed gentry in the county - you know…the only important people in the area :(
Miss Pole "I'll think of something to say back to her… tonight…"—nothing changes HA!
18:40 Peerage - prob refers to Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (first pub was 1826!!!) Only 16 Scottish peers were SELECTED to sit in the House of Lords; 19:00 -comparison to Job - God takes everything from him then torments him some more.
20:40 - The Arley's - we learned that Lady Arley shopped at Betty Barker's milliner shop last week and was part of why the shop eventually only served the well-to-do of Cranford ——which lets us know that there WAS a well-to-do set and our ladies are not they!
22:00 - Fourth at pool - another card game
22:45 - Sedulously-Dedication, diligence
22:55 - "thought you might want a description of Mrs Smith, Her being a bride". B/c often a bride's 1st appearance in society after honeymoon she wore her dress.
23:15 - ***nipped up her petticoats*** -
25:10 - Mr Milliner - introduce him to listeners - ignored back door (GASP)
25:15 - candle lighters as an excise LOL ALSO what's she making them out of?!??? - EXCELLENT WAY TO USE OLD BILLS & LETTERS!
Assumption no one will go LOL -
Poole's rationalization to go to party 🤣 - don't give her the satisfaction of hurting us (but mostly I HAVE A NEW CAP!!!)
27:23 - Phlegmatic - Mrs Jamieson - of the Four Temperaments: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic - UNemotional
Very smart cap - Miss Pole -
Duty was to FIRST buy a new cap - everyone does b/c
when wearing a new cap, Cranford ladies were like Ostriches and didn't care what was on their bodies - lol -
28:00 - Brooches - popular now??
Dogs eyes -
Hair insides - Mausoleum/weeping willow
Stiff muslin - like brooch mounted on florettes
We're brooches out of fashion??!? -
30:00- LISTEN to the description of Miss Pole! HA!
Scotch pebbles - not really timely. Victoria bought Balmoral in 1848 and suddenly Scottish agates (found in stream beds with other semi-precious stones) were VERY popular
30:45 - Hair powder Over his coat collar - started in 1715 and was WAY out of date by now
*St James' Chronicle* is a 4-way shared subscription with Cranford ladies - Quarter share -
Mr Mulliner —ADD to cheat sheet -
He looked like a Sulky cockatoo. lol -
31:25 - her furniture—Era predates-Louis 14th (1638-1715) - remember people were cheap, furniture was not
32:12 - pembrook table - drop-leaf table
32:45 - Kaleidoscope - invented in 1817 by Sir David Brewster; Conversation Cards and Puzzle Cards - seen in the Doctor sub-plot of the Mini-series/"Mr Harrisson's Confessions (1851)
34:30 - Drawings on tea chests - Might be Tole painting? might be like this (which happens to be ***japanned!*** A tinplate tea chest, c. 1760, painted with naturalistic flowers and containing two tinplate tea canisters and a sugar box. Private collection)
36:35 - torpid - mentally OR physically inactive
Agreeable and not formally - seated
36:40 - 10£ - would have purchased her whole ensemble - see below
A Lord, yet NOT a ***Lord*** - had become a common turn of phrase (A __- but not A ____), kind of like "because Reasons" has become shorthand in conversation.
Lady Glenmire and Mrs. Jaimeson - SIL
41:05 - Small lumps of sugar - b/c sugar was lumped in-house, not purchased in pre-squared form
Preference, Ombré, Quadrille, ***Basto***, Spadille - card games and Basto=Ace of Clubs is 3rd highest trump card in Ober and Quadrille. By playing it, Misss Pole makes Lady GLenmire use up the highest trump spadrille - the Ace of Spades
41:50 - Mrs Forrester's (of Cow fame) LACE STORY!
43:00 - Catholic Emancipation Bill = 1829 gave Catholics access to certain public offices from which they had previously been barred. This would have exactly ZERO impact on the making of Brussels Lace.
42:30 - Emetic + top-boot *(in the early 1800s, Wellingtons were sometimes referred to as "top boots". 42:50 - The term "top boots" was used for high-cut boots, often associated with riding or military wear, and Wellingtons were a popular type of boot in that category)* - emetic causes vomiting (NOT as done in the mini-series)
