686: Ch 8 — Cranford

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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8:01 - ELSIE BLOUSE on WEARING HISTORY wearinghistory.com

8:50 - American Dressmaking Step by Step book. Hope that helps!

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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)

• Essential guide to tea chests and caddies

• 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)

• 43:30 - astronomy/astrology - Francis Moor’s astrological predictions

 

Post-chapter Notes

• Martha no family in town?

• LOVE the “How do we address a Lady - I forgot!”

• HA! Mrs Jaimeson seems pretty desperate for company by the time the ladies visit! HA!

• - LOVE Mulliner relationship with All The Women - ugh…mansplaining.

• miss Pole’s 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. Willett. *English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century* (1937)

• Ribeiro, Aileen. *Dress and Morality* (1986)

• Recollections: Victorian Clothing Costs

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