691: Ch 13 — Cranford

Ep. 691: Cranford | Chapter 13

Book talk begins at 19:20

Miss Matty finally does it—she picks out a gown all by herself. But just as she’s basking in her big main-character moment… BAM. Gossip hits the milliner’s like a dropped teacup.

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0:00 Episode start

02:00 July Raffle - Botanical Knits: 12 Designs inspired by trees and foliage by Alana Davos of Never Not Knitting

04:00 Dear Reader Game (iOS only So far) and a gif sample

10:05 Don’t forget to send us your crafty videos

10:45 Korean thimbles: I cobbled together a way to do it by combining this, and this, and this.

13:00 Knit Nation - I got the first three issues…I’ll let you know.

14:20 I also stumbled on an interesting Hogarth video that includes a bit on the Rake’s Progress which I mentioned several weeks ago

15:00 Here’s the Washington Post review of Frankenstein at STC and I THINK this is a gift link so you can read it without an account!

Future bonus episode coming on my thoughts about the whys and why nots behind So Much Frank — that will be out after the **Guillermo del Toro Netflix version (“This November Only Monsters Play God”) Oscar Isaac, Charles Dance (TULKINGHORN!), and Christoph Waltz (hell yeah!).

POLL QUESTION - there are several other Cranford-adjacent stories that E Gaskell wrote - would you like me to do those right after we’re done with Cranford?

18.20 - This week’s Tea - Bookshop Blend https://bit.ly/craftlit-pdtea

19:20 START BOOK TALK

19:30 welly stawed = well-stopped or well-stuffed

21:30 Shawl - 30 shillings (machine made) which would be £1.10 using historical economic calculators (e.g., the UK National Archives or measuringworth.com): - 30 shillings in 1845 ≈ £85–£120 today (2025 GBP) depending on the method (retail price index vs. average earnings).

 

Post-chapter Notes

55:55 Annotations said “green tea was FERMENTED tea” - nope, just partially oxidized then the process was halted, whereas Black teas were FULLY oxidized.

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