{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"683: Ch 5 \u2014 Cranford","description":"Ep. 683: Cranford | Chapter 5 Book talk begins at 9:31 A mysterious stranger arrives in town, and you just know the ladies of Cranford are ready to investigate... politely, of course. --------------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Episode start 01:28 2:42 Plum Deluxe Full Body Reset green tea. Plum Deluxe\u2019s CraftLit tea collection is here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/craftlit-pdtea Also, MAY RAFFLE - Sir Walter Scott Cross stitch from Rebecca S (Of Book it with Becca, who wrote the wonderful post: \u201cWhat do you do with a problem like Emma?\u201d 04:25 Gardening! 09:30 - START BOOK TALK: Last week, the lovely Mr Holbrook and his very sad passing. 12:06 Joint- Stock bank: > A bank owned by shareholders, operating under a charter or act of Parliament, and offering services to the public. Unlike older private banks (run by individuals or families), joint-stock banks were corporations, meaning shared risk and more capital. How bank books worked\u2014 A bank book (also called a passbook) was given to bank customers to record all transactions in their account\u2014- Every deposit and withdrawal was manually written into the book by a bank clerk. The customer\u2019s copy was their only proof of the account\u2019s balance. 14:12 Envelope usage \/ turning inside out (ETSY doing this NOW) Whole vs half sheet and crossed letters 16:36 STRING and Indian-rubber rings 17:24 \u201cIndia-rubber\u201d was the 19th-century term for what we now just call rubber\u2014and India-rubber rings were small rubber loops or bands like we use today. Came from the latex of tropical trees (especially Hevea brasiliensis) 18:42 TONQUIN beans: TONKA beans: Tonka beans are the wrinkled, black seeds of the Dipteryx odorata tree, native to South America. Chefs outside the US use them in desserts and to replace nuts. AND ILLEGAL in the USA since 1954 due to the presence of liver damaging \u201ccoumarin\u201d - video on the beans - and this video was released just after I recorded this episode! 20:54 Full bottomed wig: 22:43 PADUASOY: heavy, rich corded or embossed silk fabric, From French - peau de soie, a cloth resembling serge (twill fabric with diagonal lines\/ridges on both inner and outer surfaces per a two-up\/two-down weave.) 24:19 Bottom of page a small \u201cT.O.\u201d = turn over \/ Molly\u2019s writing is full of spelling like \u201cBewty\u201d which is a subsequent joke line 25:49 Dum memor ipse Mei, dum Spiritus regift artus - Virgil, \u00c6neid, IV.382, \u201cWhile memory shall last and breath still control my limbs\u201d 25:28 Carmen (lowercase) like CARMINA (song poem or verse) 26:54 Gentleman\u2019s Magazine 1782\u2014Kind of an Atlantic Monthly\u2014guess who contributed? Samuel Johnson! 27:18 M. T. Ciceroni\u2019s Epistolae: The letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BCE) Roman statesman, orator, philosopher, and writer with 800+ letters surviving Heather before recording, in garden, with skewer pack: 28:41 \u201cRod in a pickle\u201d - rod, method of punishment; pickle, something preserved for future use. 29:42 Life is a vale of tears: Psalm 84:6 also, description of a helicopter parent feels marvelously modern 30:21 Mrs Chapone (1727-1801) Contributed to the Rambler AND Gentleman\u2019s Magazine and wrote \u201cLetters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773) and Mrs Carter (1717-1806) many languages and in 1758 published first translation of Epictetus THE Stoic Philosopher. 31:32 \u201cBefore Miss Edgeworth\u2019s \u2018Patronage\u2019 had banished wafers from polite society\u2026\u201d: Patronage was a book (1814) with a character who was offended by a letter she received that was sealed with a wafer: \u201cI wonder how any man can have the impertinence to send me his spittle\u201d (I, 248) 33:06 \u201cOld original post with stamp in the corner\u201d not exactly the right watermark, but you get the idea\u2026 34:30 \u201cSesquipedalian\u201d writing - foot and a half long sesqui = 1-\u00bd pedalis =foot looonng polysyllabic words 35:13 Buonaparte (Bony)1805 invasion fears - In case you still need to build your own BUG OUT BAG 36:55 David and Goliath, son of Jesse (I Samuel 17) Apollyon (Greek version) and Abbadon (Hebrew version) are names for an archangel In Revelation 9:11\u2014> _\u201cAnd they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.\u201d (Revelation 9:11, KJV) Meaning: Abaddon (Hebrew) means \u201cdestruction\u201d or \u201cplace of destruction.\u201d Apollyon (Greek) means \u201cdestroyer.\u201d It\u2019s overblown biblical satire\u2014calling someone \u201cApollyon\u201d in Cranford is like referring to a strict schoolmarm as \u201cBeelzebub.\u201d 38:08 Bonus Bernardus non video omnia The Blessed Bernard does not see everything - maybe said by St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)\u2014 This quote is often attributed (possibly apocryphally) to Peter Abelard, the 12th-century theologian, as a gentle jab at St. Bernard of Clairvaux, with whom he clashed theologically. Meaning: Even the wisest man (here, Blessed Bernard) can be wrong sometimes. Post-chapter Notes Chapone and Carter and Bluestockings (see below for big notes) real historical women writers, both part of the 18th-century English Bluestocking movement\u2014educated, literary women who promoted female intellectualism and moral development. Gaskell is absolutely name-dropping intentionally here for Cranford\u2019s themes of domestic gentility, moral seriousness, and self-improvement. \u2e3b Mrs. Hester Chapone (1727\u20131801) Best known for Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773), addressed to her niece. It was a conduct book for young women, offering advice on moral character, reading habits, and proper behavior. Hugely popular\u2014Cranford-adjacent readers would know her by name. \u2e3b Mrs. Elizabeth Carter (1717\u20131806) A respected scholar, translator, and poet\u2014a genuine intellectual heavyweight. Famously translated the Discourses of Epictetus from Greek in 1758\u2014the first English translation by a woman, and one of the first of Epictetus at all. 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