{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"686: Ch 8 \u2014 Cranford","description":"Ep. 686: Cranford | Chapter 8 Book talk begins at 15:54 Lady Glenmire (a real baron\u2019s widow!) is in town, and the Cranford ladies can\u2019t decide whether to curtsey or completely ignore her\u2014Mrs. Jamieson prefers the latter. --------------------------------------------------------------- 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\u2019s 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\u2019s voice mail   BOOK TALK\u2014Re-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\u2019s chapter. A lot of fun! Characters in *Cranford* (Updated for Chs. 6\u20138) 18:25 - County families\u2014the landed gentry in the county - you know\u2026the only important people in the area :( Miss Pole \u201cI\u2019ll think of something to say back to her\u2026 tonight\u2026\u201d\u2014nothing changes HA! 18:40 Peerage - prob refers to Burke\u2019s 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\u2019s  - we learned that Lady Arley shopped at Betty Barker\u2019s milliner shop last week and was part of why the shop eventually only served the well-to-do of Cranford \u2014\u2014which 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 - \u201cthought you might want a description of Mrs Smith, Her being a bride\u201d. B\/c often a bride\u2019s 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\u2019s she making them out of?!??? - EXCELLENT WAY TO USE OLD BILLS & LETTERS! Assumption no one will go LOL - Poole\u2019s rationalization to go to party \ud83e\udd23 - don\u2019t 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\u2019t 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\u2019re 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\u2019 Chronicle* is a 4-way shared subscription with Cranford ladies - Quarter share - Mr Mulliner \u2014ADD to cheat sheet - He looked like a Sulky cockatoo. lol  - 31:25 - her furniture\u2014Era 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\/\u201cMr Harrisson\u2019s 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) Essential guide to tea chests and caddies 36:35 - torpid - mentally OR physically inactive Agreeable and not formally - seated 36:40 - 10\u00a3 - 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 \u201cbecause Reasons\u201d 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, Ombr\u00e9, 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\u2019s (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) 43:30 - astronomy\/astrology - Francis Moor\u2019s astrological predictions   Post-chapter Notes Martha no family in town? LOVE the \u201cHow do we address a Lady - I forgot!\u201d HA! Mrs Jaimeson seems pretty desperate for company by the time the ladies visit! HA! - LOVE Mulliner relationship with All The Women - ugh\u2026mansplaining. miss Pole\u2019s triumphant first comment - The DOG gets the cream!!?!? We were as intelligent and sensible as the dog - HA!!! Mrs Forrester is wearing VOMIT LACE! HA! LACE EPISODE PUT "PLAUSIBLE" on screen like mythbusters LEANNE LACE VIDEO   Additional notes for the lace video at the end: Lace of Long Ago 1920s Belgian Lace Makers Nalbinding Kerouac's manuscript   Miscellaneous Clothing costs research (some) MeasuringWorth.com Cunnington, C. 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