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So... I just moved to Philadelphia, and this week has been all boxes and chaos. So no new episode this week, but I hope to be back next week. Come see the new room in the video!

Also, a contest: every move, I come up with a fun new opening line for the podcast — but nothing I've tried for Philly feels right. Send me your Philly-themed ideas! If I get enough good ones, I'll feature them in upcoming episodes and let listeners vote.

You can send your ideas to:

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Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans!

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It's been a rough few months. Between a nasty virus, a torn cornea (multiple times), and an upcoming move to Philadelphia, things got delayed. But we're getting back on track.

If you have a Nancy Drew (or Hardy Boys, Bobbsey Twins, Rover Boys) story to share, we want to hear it!

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Here's a mid-December update from Heather with some important CraftLit news.

We're officially moving CraftLit off Patreon and onto Supercast, and while the transition took a lot of work, the result is a much easier and better experience for listeners.

In this update, I cover: • 00:00 Why CraftLit is leaving Patreon and why there's no Moby Dick this week • 01:10 How easy the move to Supercast is (no extra charges, no double payments): *helper videos for the process listed below* • 1:20 Where to find *Christmas playlists* across platforms: all on Supercast, CraftLit.com/christmas has BOTH CraftLit.com and Libsyn playlists. • 2:30 What *Patreon Patrons* need to do: craftlit.supercast.com/patreons (check your email from craftlit/patreon) • 4:03 Help for *app orphans* who lost access to premium audio: craftlit.com/app-orphan/ • 05:49 *Discounts ONLY available through the end of December 2025*: craftlit.com/supercast/ • 07:35 How *gift subscriptions* work on Supercast: craftlit.supercast.com/gifts/new • A quick programming update (Brain Broke—no Moby-Dick this week) • 08:59 Upcoming holiday audio and a new spooky Christmas story over at @chillingtalesfordarknights ("The Portal"—NOT goofy—coming soon, written by Mr Chilling Tales himself. Author of my fave—goofy—voicework I've done for them: "My Closet is Trying to Kill Me" youtu.be/ql09GEF-lF4?si=broWKLqI7ooV96cE)

If you've ever supported CraftLit, use the app, or are thinking about becoming a premium subscriber, this video walks you through what's changing and how to get set up.

Thank you for supporting CraftLit and for your patience as the tech finally caught up with what we've wanted to do all along.

Happy holidays 💜

Here are some more helper videos for you, in case you'd like to see the processes before diving in—I filmed these all on my phone:

• The Sign-up Process
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Chapters 25-31 – iTunes Season 35, episodes 1-9

Book talk begins at 19:44

Elopements, mistaken romances, and surprise weddings? Yes. ALL of that.

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0:00 - Start 01:48 - Don't forget to send us your crafty videos

03:08 - BOOKMARKS sign up closed - if you made a bookmark and didn't sign up, email Heather@craftlit.com

03:40 - Game of Wool a review on Nimble Needles, interview (pre-show) with a real Fair Isle knitter, and Gordon's explanation of: (a) What happened on the show (b) steeking.

07:23 - GOOD EATS IS BACK?! Alton Brown Cooks Food

08:50 - Saw Nuremberg— I found Charles Burns'—the editor's—papers of Doug Kelly's book "22 Cells in Nuremberg," but I believe they're jpgs of every page—please share if you find a better copy https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501848?rsc=112566&cv=1&x=1352&y=1746&z=3.3e-4), also saw Death by Lightning—very funny until it's not. Trailer: Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix - and How Accurate was Netflix's "Death by Lightning?" – Episode 1: Garfield's Nomination —the one character I thought was a composite in Nuremberg was not: Howard Triest Howard Triest Documentary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Triest#cite_note-6). He was portrayed by Leo Woodall in the 2025 film Nuremberg.

14:07 - Frankenstein—Non-gory scenes by request: Elizabeth non-gory scene with meeting Creature https://youtu.be/1rO8QDtsvNA?si=m2Ls0B9GXLmHDGJr (Actress Mia Goth, Harriet from Anya Taylor Joy's Emma)

Short of Elizabeth's costumes https://youtube.com/shorts/2S9SqvN_5aA?si=Q-meab1xvqiG2CgM, Someone edited together her entire character arc from when the creature is awakened to her end—100% no gore: https://youtu.be/OUezG3wmwHE?si=HtbMGoXXaF3zTrmn, Jacob Elordi's transformation in the makeup chair: https://youtube.com/shorts/UbrtReRi408?si=qYlbDdsVZtRNpJ1T+ for this short—which is nearly the whole film—close your eyes for a long blink when you see the shower of sparks fly in the laboratory. You'll skip the only semi-gruesome 1 second cut: https://youtube.com/shorts/aUfoXryGQR0?si=gO96SXPs1tYbu8Tp

17:03 - BUYER BEWARE link on Substack 17:31 - New Listening options COMING SECOND WEEK OF DECEMBER—better-than-Patreon: Supercast If you're having issues with CraftLit.com's Premium pages, please let us know! Heather@Craftlit.com (put TECH SUPPORT in the subject line)

BOOK TALK 19:44 - Book talk

19:53 - WE NEED A MY LADY LUDLOW READER! 24:19 - Jenny Lind - HUGELY famous Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale

25:10 - Prolix—too many words

27:40 - Fermented brined pickles have probiotics—share any recipes you like!

29:39 - CHAPTER AUDIO chapters 25–31

Miscellaneous 1:00:46 - December 18th—Last Book Party of 2025, 8 pm Eastern: Dec Book Party — Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (book)

01:02:34 - Making the Profane, Profound - interview with Christopher Moore, author of Lamb: https://youtu.be/1ZBuWQqIgEk?si=aI0aZqt96WP1bFa_

1:04:10 - Free movie on December 4th—It's a Wonderful Life, on Discord in the Free movie channel, 8 pm Eastern

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Ep. 702: Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Chapters 20-24

Book talk begins at 20:12

Poor Mr. Harrison is stuck in Peak Gaskell Mayhem, and honestly, it's delicious.

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0:00 - Start

1:49 - Bookmark Exchange https://bit.ly/bookmark-exchange

2:31 - Catherine (rug-hooker, knitter, and writer http://youngestofseven.com) sent in two links: sent in more fabric store info—state by state list: https://swoodsonsays.com/a-creative-reuse-center-near-me-map-resource/ and an independent fabric store in Bucks County, Pennsylvania! - Gemma Fabric https://gemmafabrics.com/

3:13 - Heather got a bolt of the family tartan (MacPherson, I'm Gillies on my maternal grandmother's side and I'm 2-½ in the photo <3 )

3:56 - Heather will make a vest for everybody in the family.

5:07- Caveat Emptor—Buyer Beware of AI Slop in the crafting space.

5:39 - Materials for fighting AI Slop

13:34 - Substack

17:47 - THIMTEC / thimble tape — so cool and available in many places

19:16 - Finger cots — https://www.uline.com/Grp_362/Finger-Cots-Tape?pricode=WX478&AdKeyword=finger%20cots

20:12 - Mr. Harrison's Confessions. Book talk begins

20:15 - Last week rehash.

20:42 - Assembly halls

21:21 - Granadiers

21:50 - The story of Paris and the apple

23:17 - Mr Morgan wrote "Direct to Meurice's"...and what does that mean?

24:04 - The Peace Society in England

25:08 - Chapters 20 - 24

51:04 - Please do visit my Substack for the suggestions for dealing with AI-Slop

51:44 - 1888 book from the Pinterest pin was NOT AI-Slop…but it WAS deeply misleading. Here's the REAL book and here's the cheater version making you think you can find/buy the earlier 5 volumes.

54:04 - If you have any tricks or tips to recognize A.I.-Slop - please add it to the Substack page

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Ep. 701: Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Chapters 15-19

Book talk begins at 12:20

Let's just say: gossip is blooming faster than the primroses.

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1:46 - Naltrexone

3:01 - Don't forget to send us your crafty videos

03:23 - BOOKMARKS sign up through November 21st, send by December 6 for International and 13th for in-country — link: https://bit.ly/bookmark-exchange

4:04 - Philly fabric stores video (send info on your local/indie fabric stores for us to share!):

05:50 - I saw Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN

7:00 - Frankenstein's Gay Maker: James Whale, The Queen of Hollywood

12:20 - BOOKTALK

15:48 - Fire Screens

BOOK/WATCH PARTIES coming up in 2025:

46:48 - all parties are at 8pm Eastern:

• Nov 20th— Random Harvest (movie)
• Dec 18th — Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (book)

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Ep. 700: Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Chapter 14

Book talk begins at 17:02

But just when everything seems rosy, a tragic accident turns Duncombe upside down.

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04:10 - Bone Tatting Bobbins 05:06 - Fichu

05:29 - Tatting Shuttle

06:47 - Heather with Pangolin Picture

07:19 - Drive around the country - Mexico Chili (Casita)

08:53 - Santa Fe

09:07 - Georgia O'Keeffe Home

12:06 - Abiquiú

14:37 - Libsyn made all premium available? Problem

15:09 - Solution

17:06 - Book Talk

17:31 - Monetary Gift

18:01 - Mr. Harrison buys flowers (Camellias) for Sopie

18:53 - Good Gaskell Humor

19:06 - We find out more about Miss Bullock

19:27 - Overly Sarcastic production

20:05 - Accidents happened, John Brownker

22:17 - More proof that humans just haven't changed

22:45 - Mister Morgan, the other doctor

22:56 - Miss Horsman

23:19 - Reminder if you're dealing with the wrist.

24:08 - Chapter 14 Started

Post Chapter Notes

48:27 - Post Chapter talk begins - Mrs. Rose

49:18 - Miss Horsman and Everyone, the assumption for why might not want to do the amputation of the carpenter's arm.

50:00 - Mister Morgan took the long rounds.

51:55 - The reason why it being on February in Valentine's Day.

52:32 - What we see from Ms. Caroline is interesting.

53:23 - Mr. Harrison's not sorry. He is sorry for being caught.

53:38 - Mrs. Rose was going to Brownkers to the beach

54:25 - Heather from the future. https://bit.ly/bookmark-exchange - Bookmark exchange to celebrate Christmas 2025

Miscellaneous

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Ep. 699: Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Chapters 9-13

Book talk begins at 12:56

Between Christmas dinners gone wrong, mixed signals with Sophy, and a stethoscope scandal that sets tongues wagging, life in Duncombe just keeps getting messier (and funnier).

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Ep. 698: Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Chapters 7-8

Book talk begins at 16:51

Want to hear how Gaskell balances grief, comedy, and social satire all in one breath? Tune in and let the story carry you away.

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• Gaskell knew from dying children, shame we don't read more of these old books b/c vaxx-preventable deaths might be more recognized
• HORRIBLE NURSE blaming Sophie
• Sophie had to be an adult from a young age - she speaks to Mary Wollstonecraft's points about women's educational restrictions being BS b/c women had to take on running the home which (if done right) was no less heavy than what the men did at work. Part of how we got here in this mess - only valuing $
• Mrs Rose and her hair dye
• Bernadette Banner depilatory video
• him teasing her presets his friend Jack Marchand's description of his jokey youth
• Paper Game

Miscellaneous

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• Illigitimate kids podcast - Harriet Smith mentioned -https://pca.st/episode/00e31d8e-6b0d-4f0d-9630-54d0fcebf39d
• CHECK NEWSLETTER AND SHOWNOTES FOR UPDATES ON FREE MOVIE NIGHTS - We've done Jaws and Jurassic Park, for Nov 6th we will watch Dead Mean Don't Wear Plaid - first Thursday of month, 8pm Eastern, on Discord (FREE)
• BOOK/WATCH PARTIES coming up in 2025: Last Thursday of every month, 8pm Eastern:
• Sep—The Last Unicorn (movie)
• Oct—Random Harvest (book)
• Nov—Random Harvest (movie)
• Dec—Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (book)

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Ep. 697: Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Chapters 5-6

Book talk begins at 23:29

It's picnic time in Duncombe! But our poor Mr. Harrison is wondering if this "pleasure outing" was anything but pleasant.

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BE THE ALGORITHM YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD Struthless videos

• Why doesn't 2025 feel like "the future"?
• Alive Internet Theory - Hope is Punk
• Self Sabotage? In this economy?

Evie Science video

Snoods

• the Free Snood Pattern I (sort of) used (and now that I'm looking at Ysolde's page, I could also use the Ishbel Beret or Snapdragon Tam as defacto snoods—I really do love Ysolde's patterns—including several free patterns and ).
• Ysolde's RIPLEY hat pattern

Miscellaneous

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• Oct—Random Harvest (book)
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Ep. 696: Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Chapters 3-4

Book talk begins at 25:15

Pears, parties, and peculiar housemates—Mr. Harrison's adventures just keep getting more awkward (and more entertaining).

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• Durham U English Courselist
• And a close up of a class and one from the U of York (thank you LilyM)
• We caught Hank Mansplaining Knitting
• The Ultimate "We Have Notes" video from @KristineVike
• And the evil of Private Equity predatory practices (actually, she has a LOT of useful informational videos!)
• Spectacular FIXED SciShow video: I Remade the SciShow Knitting Video (with accurate SCIENCE) https://youtu.be/5btQokB32dQ

Solomon's Seal:

• Dutch Tiles—as with Cranford, these were out of style when the story was written/takes place. They have a resurgence of popularity during the Arts & Crafts movement: https://www.regtsdelfttiles.com/antique-delft-wall-tile-18th-century-horseman-in-manganese-rosette-corner-motifs.html
• The Jargonelle pear (Pyrus communis 'Jargonelle') is an ancient, hardy, long-lived pear variety, first mentioned in the 17th century. It produces medium-sized, yellow-green fruit with a reddish flush and musky, sweet, juicy flesh, ripe in late summer. The fruit must be eaten fresh as it does not store well.
• Sir Astley Cooper & Sir Robert Peel again
• Duncombe (silent final "be")
• The back room was my consulting-room ("the library," he advised me to call it), and he gave me a skull to put on the top of my bookcase, in which the medical books were all ranged on the conspicuous shelves; while Miss Austen, Dickens and Thackeray were, by Mr. Morgan himself, skilfully placed in a careless way, upside down or with their backs turned to the wall. HA!
• Women's veils: https://www.sewhistorically.com/mourning-in-the-1850s/ deep widow's mourning; such veils and fails, and capes and cloaks, that she looked like a black crape1 haycock2.
• very mal-àpropos that I could hardly keep from smiling; 3but I would not have done it for the world, … '"I have the 'dognoses' of my dear husband's complaint in my desk, Mr. Harrison, if you would like to draw up the case for the Lancet.

Ep. 695: Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Chapters 1-2

Book talk begins at 14:46

You'll want to tune in to our latest story—because in Duncombe, even saying you feel "pretty well" can cause a stir.

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Ep. 694: Cranford | Chapter 16

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Will peace be restored in Cranford society? Or will Mr. Peter's antics shake things up for good?

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• Sizing knitted sweaters
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080:15 and 12:00 START BOOK TALK

• 16:00 - Edward Said (Palestinian American, 1935-2003) book Orientalism in 1978 was news, now it's just "well, duh".

• 24:48 - Negus (182) - hot port, sugar, lemon, spices Negus recipe and if you search there are MANY variations. (Mrs Beeton had something to say about the recipe - FOR KIDS!—not these Beetons)

THIS Beeton

• Preston Guild (1179) has held fair in Lancashire town every 20 years since 1542. Last in 2012, next in 2032 (only ever postponed in 1942)

• 30:43 - Chapter Audio
• 51:27 - Post-chapter Notes
• 58:33 - "The Last Generation in England" read by Noel Badrian
• 1:23:56 - "The Cage at Cranford" read by listener Lily M (THANK YOU!)

Next up! • Mr Harrison's Confessions

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Ep. 693: Cranford | Chapter 15

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Cranford wraps up with surprise marriages, booming tea sales, Mrs. Jamieson's selective approval, and the long-awaited return of a familiar face—serving one final cup of genteel drama and heartwarming resolution.

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9:00 stitch of the month

around 10:08 - I'm talking about what NOT to use the stitch for around 10:29 here's my swatch

around 12:18 color header pic The inner edge of odd pages has the page number :(

22:26 START BOOK TALK

22:30 We had a marvelous chapter 14, and the start of Miss Matty's tea chop (and comfit dispensary) 23:17 HumanKind: a hopeful history by Rutger Bregman

25:00 TEA!

• Congou - Chinese Black tea popular in 19th Century
• (Lapsang) Souchong - fine variety of above; smoked-dried over pinewood fires (so it takes kind of marvelously smokey)
• Gunpowder - fine type of green tea - EACH LEAF is rolled up to look granular (I checked, and yes, you can watch the leaves unroll while it steeps!)
• Pekoe - superior black tea picked when leaves are still young and downy (Plum Deluxe has a Pekoe Ceylon Tea—because pekoe is actually a tea grade not a falvor profile!)

26:31 - Holy smoke! Samuel Johnson's Dictionary is ONLINE now!

26:50 - The old Hundredth - musical version of Psalm 100 "All people that on earth do dwell" (Heather actually played it on the piano for you!)

28:05 - Baron Munchausen stories, all free to read or download: Public Domain Texts - Raspe's Original English Edition (1785) The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

→ Project Gutenberg - Bürger's German Expansion (1786)

Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und Lande, Feldzüge und lustige Abenteuer des Freiherrn von Münchhausen

→ German Text on Projekt Gutenberg-DE - Illustrated Edition (Gustave Doré, 1862)

Beautifully illustrated version:

→ Internet Archive Scan - English Edition with Illustrations (1895)

Baron Munchausen: His Travels and Surprising Adventures in Russia (Includes famous illustrations)

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→ Wunderbare Reisen… (LibriVox)

30:46 - More on the Siege of Rangoon (1824)

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Ep. 692: Cranford | Chapter 14

Book talk begins at 11:49

Will Miss Matty accept help from her loyal friends? And what's this about Martha and Jem... and a lodger?

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06:10 - Janine Barchas and Isabel Greenberg's new book "The Novel Life of Jane Austen: a Graphic Biography"

10:20 We had a very Sad chapter 13, which ended with Miss Matty thinking about Martha. :(

11:49 START BOOK TALK

Rubric- The Book of Common prayer printed directions for teh service in red. Hens the Rubric (from the Latin word for 'Red") signified someting of importance and later came to mean "injunction" or general rule. REALLY??? LATIN FOR RED????

13:50 - Mammon - Matthew 6:24, Devil of Covetovness or Demon of Greed (medieval and Milton - lowercase) (in hebrew meant money, modern hebrew. = wealth), , unjust worldly gain - ANNOTATION is partly WRONG, But there WAS a Syrian God of Wealth

19:45 - AAah Voo DEER-ray zhuh Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman - Basically Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - the easiest piece of music one could learn to play. Mozart had done one of his 12 variations (though, personally, I'm partial to Tom Lehrer's Clementine)

21:25 - She could "trace out patterns very nicely for Muslin Embroidery, by dint of placing a piece of silver-paper over the design to be copied, and holding both against the window-pane, while she marked the scollop and eyelet-holes". ANNOTATION SAYS "Probably broderie anglaise which used scalloped edges and a pattern of holes sewn round with thread like a button-hole."

22:55 - a Celestial Globe to learn simple astronomy/constellations https://fi.edu/en/science-and-education/collection/celestial-globe

24:35 - Wool-work and counting threads - think of needlepoint and petit-point, but you have to COUNT THE THREADS in a muslin or light canvas backing. Around 1830 v popular to stitch portraits of royalty (again, at least 10 years out of popularity elsewhere, but still popular in Cranford). Printed, gridded patterrns (Beeton's Book of Needlework)

27:05 - Under a glass shade - put a glass dome or CLOCHE over things to keep dust off—would have been REALLY important b/c it was DUSTY back then and only got worse in London as the Century went on (also used in gerdening for heat retention)

27:55 - Couchant - lying down in Heraldry Image from Sodacan, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

28:35 - East India Tea Company - Founded in 1600 by QE1 and held the chartered right to trade with India and China and IMPORT the tea as a monopoly until 1834 (BTW, Twining's started as a coffee SHOP/Room adding tea in 1717 , bought adjacent building for ladies to take tea(might be Western world's oldest dry tea and coffee shop) at No. 216 Strand london in 1706; still operating today - and logo created in 1787 is worlds oldest in continuous use) B/c the EIC's charter was for trade/importing, anyone could SELL the tea.

31:25 - our mites: Biblical times a mite was the lowest denomination of coin in Judea (two mites = one lepta (thin or small in Greek) which was equivalent to a quadran, the smallest Roman coin), (also see Mark 12:43 re: the Widow's Mite where Christ praises the window who gives her last two mites in the temple) Two mites were worth about 1/64th of a denari - a day's wage for a common worker, toay about 1/8 of a US penny (1 cent)

33:40 - Spills - QUILLING (thank you Aimee!) video of making Quilled spills

37:15 - Comfit - nut,…

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

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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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Ep. 690: Cranford | Chapter 12

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Peter may be lost to the mists of time (or possibly crowned the llama of Tibet, if Miss Pole is to be believed) but it's Lady Glenmire who's dropped the real bombshell in this week's chapter.

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03:55 - Foundation Paper Piecing patterns

04:30 - Benjamin Dryer of "Dryer's English" & Andrew on AI this is what he wrote to me to introduce all these interactions:

• The reason I was remembering this book (that I can't quite remember) is that the idea of scale has been on my mind. It started with this story, and then this post that I wrote in response to it—and then this post by Benjamin Dreyer, which I asked my Chat-GPT to respond to, which then led to THIS piece from America's Copy Editor, with both of us being a little dazzled and a little terrified by a "mere" predictive-text engine's ability to create a phrase like "phrenology for prose."

07:30 - CraftLit is now on Audible—please check and let us know if it worked!

08:20 - Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah

10:25 - Jameella Jamil's article

12:17 - Don't forget to send us your crafty videos like Steph!!!

13:00 - Listener Margaret had JUST read this book on the Porter Sisters when their books were mentioned on a Cranford episode! ZEITGEIST!!!!

13:46 - I just listened to the podcast Haptic and Hue: Tales of Textiles. the June 4 episode is on The Witches of Scotland: How a New Tartan Became a Living Memorial - and thought Craftlit people would be interested—thank you JayKay

15:20 - And from Maia a BBC podcast on the same topic

15:30 - And another podcast from Lily M

15:55 START BOOK TALK

16:05 - A Moving Chess Pieces Chapter

17:49 - "veiled prophet in Lalla Rookh" by Thomas Moore (1799-1852), verse tales joined by prose text, first tale "The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan" Edward Said's book Orientalism

19:00 - Rowland's Kalydor: a skin tonic with a basis of almond oil.

19:20 - Bonds are issued by governments or companies wishing to raise money. Foreign bonds in Cranford = risky (a kind of South Sea bubble).

22:56 - "Tibbie Fowler"—poem by Robert Burns (1756 to 1796)

24:30 - "Queen of Spain's Legs"—just sayin' 🤣

47:21 - Post Chapter Chat

51:10 - it's not The Kiss scene, it's "The Reunion Scene" and you can find it here.

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Ep. 689: Cranford | Chapter 11

Book talk begins at 13:40

Who's really behind the name Signor Brunoni? And could Aga Jenkyns be…?

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Ep. 688: Cranford | Chapter 10

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Robbers, suspicion, and just when things couldn't get more tragic (or absurd), Mrs. Jamieson's dog dies—and she mourns harder than she did her own husband.

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14:11 START BOOK TALK Signor Brunoni and Miss Pole's Magicsplaining - she only gets worse in this chapter

15:03 - Doctors are also dentists - don't forget

16:10 - Remember that the French fought with the Colonists against Britain AND The Brits also fought the French in Spain during the Peninsular War (1808-1815) vs Napoleon.

17:12 - Madame de Staël with a turban on and another of Mr Denon-

Denon was an art expert who travelled with Napoleon to Egypt. One of his sketches is of a man in a turban:

18:35 - There is a reference to Philomel / Nightingale

20:34 - You'll hear a reference to a mysterious "deadly force" - or "the gaze"

21:32 - Cheltenham, spa town.

21:46 - Virago—domineering bad tempered woman

21:50 - Videlicet - viz: Videlicet (2. > vi-DEL-i-sit or wi-del-eh-ket in Latin) is a Latin adverb meaning "namely," "that is to say," or "as follows." It's abbreviated as viz.

22:56 - Dr. John Ferrier—(1761 to 1815)—author of an essay "Towards a Theory of Apparitions" and Dr Samuel Hibbard—(1782 to 1848)—the author of Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions (or an Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes (1825)

59:27 Post-chapter Chat

01:02:00 - LOGICAL FALLACY - Miss Pole: "I beleive he was robbed…"

Appeal to Belief ** - (argumentum ad consequentiam or ad populum)** Definition: Claiming that something must be true (or false) simply because one believes it, regardless of the evidence or reasoning - the Plural of Anecdote is NOT Data.

1:03:39 Mrs Forester - cold pigged in the morning to get out of bed

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Ep. 687: Cranford | Chapter 9

Book talk begins at 20:20

This week we bring the razzle-dazzle of Signor Brunoni's magic act—and the unstoppable commentary of Miss Pole. 😆

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• CIDER in Jim Thorpe - Cidery https://wildelder.com/ and Elderberry - WHAT IS? https://hildaskitchenblog.com/recipe/easy-elderberry-wine-recipe/

20:20 START BOOK TALK

• Michaelmas to ladies day Sept 29–Mar25

• Wombwell's Lions: https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/warwephem/id/1376/ George Wombwell (1777-1850) had a traveling menagerie, bred first lion born in England - which fought the bull mastiffs

• Saracen's Head Turban (OG demolished 1868): the Inn, Saracen = Crusade-era term for Arab/Muslim (actually there are MANY Saracen Head pubs and Inns still around!)

• https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/oU8AAOSw5B9iBiju/s-l400.jpg

• TURBAN WEARING - WAS popular in 1840s - so Miss Matty is quite en Vogue!

• The George / the Assembly Rooms

• Clothes Maids

• PORTER SISTER'S BOOKS: Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) / The Hungarian Brothers (1807) & Don Sebastian (1809), Young Protector of Santo Sebastiani (1814) = all referenced by Miss Pole who clearly reads too much - a la Northanger Abby

• Witch of Endor - Saul summons Prophet Samuel to ask why God has forsaken him. Oops, God Said, Yer dead.

• Death Watches (Beetles) and winding sheets again, all apparently Omens of death so Miss Jenkyns only ever said Rolly-polly's (rolls of wax)

• card game preference—pool is basically a kitty

• Queen Charlottte (Yes, Bridgerton, wife of George III) &The Gunning Sisters—actresses briefly, then found husbands.

• Chapeau Bras - A chapeau-bras is a specific type of hat, often a bicorne or tricorne, designed to be folded and carried under the arm. It translates literally from French as "hat arm". These hats were a popular style worn by gentlemen, particularly during the 18th century, for dress occasions and could be easily stowed when not worn—NOT IN FASHION NOW

• National School boys - elementary schools set up by C of E - listen to the story of the minister with the boys HA!

• leg·er·de·main - /ˌlejərdəˈmān/ skillful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks.

Post-chapter Chat

• MISS POLE IS OUTTA CONTROL

• Assembly Room has seen better days like Emma's Highbury

• It was "not the thing" says Miss Pole - just like Emma's dad! and yet SHE was the one annoying the Signore

Miscellaneous

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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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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 s…

Ep. 685: Cranford | Chapter 7

Book talk begins at 17:04

This week, we're invited to one of the most exclusive tea-and-card parties in all of Cranford.

The guest list? Curated with surgical precision. The food? Shockingly abundant. The social stakes? Sky-high—especially when THE Mrs. Jamieson dozes off mid-soirée and then drops a bombshell: her sister-in-law, Lady Glenmire, is coming to town! Cue the wardrobe panic.

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8:35 - Explaining TARIFFS with a Textile History Lesson with Jillian Eve: https://youtu.be/2qALHS-QJ28?si=fyQx1Lk8vZ1Rdw0A&t=160

17:04 - Poor Peter last week - ends with Martha…KISSING!

17:41 - the Cranford Character Cheat Sheet through Chapter 7: https://bit.ly/cranford-characters-1-8

19:36 - Anyone know—was she the queen who may have suffered from an eating disorder? Queen Adelaide - Wife of William IV who reigned 1830-37

25:03 - Bombazine - a twilled dress fabric of worsted and silk or cotton - black bombazine was classic for mourning clothes.

26:38 - Spadille (the game is also known as "Spades") https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/06/15/how-to-play-spades-card-game/72260535007/#:~:text=In%20Spades%2C%20players%20bet%20how,10%20cards%20to%20each%20player. and Manille https://www.extremis.com/en/playing-manille

27:58 - The Rake's Progress all paintings AND engravings are all visible on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rake%27s_Progress#/media/File:William_Hogarth_021.jpg)

28:57 - Seed cake - recipes please!- A Seed Cake – History in the Making

30:24 Damson tart - and apparently a fun way to use leftover damsons from gin making! Anyone have any Damson tart recipes?

31:05 START OF CHAPTER AUDIO

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59:10 - Thin Man Watch Party Thursday, May 29, 8pm Eastern time

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• Jun—Princess Bride (book—there are many versions - Heather has notes on which Forward to read)
• Jul—Princess Bride (movie)
• Aug—The Last Unicorn (book)
• Sep—The Last…

Ep. 684: Cranford | Chapter 6

Book talk begins at 15:15

Oh, you're not ready for this one. This week, Miss Matty lets us in on a long-held family secret—and you know when the ladies of Cranford whisper, it's worth leaning in.

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01:45 Plum Deluxe Cinnamon Nourish Black Tea—part of the Winter Collection

Also, MAY RAFFLE - Sir Walter Scott Cross stitch from Rebecca S (Of Book it with Becca, who wrote the wonderful post: "What do you do with a problem like Emma?"

03:30 Parkrose Permaculture video on unintended consequences. Then I found that I'd watched several of her videos on the subject of Individualism:

• Toxic Individualism #1
• Toxic Individualism #2 Rugged Individualism (and another video on the same topic from Robert Reich) Pioneer Women book

8:20 Bug and Bee house (I love this guy's VERY DIY attitude) and Ladybug Hotel #1 and Bug Hotel #2

12:00 Barbara Edelman show - BEE EPISODE

15:15 Read all the letters and ended with "poor Peter" which will be where we begin today

15:30 Reminder From Ch 5: Bonus Bernardus non video omnia* The Blessed Bernard does not see everything - maybe said by St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)— 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.

16:00 Hoaxing - slang when it first came in to use 1796 but by 1820 it was common use. So by 1840-50 it was no longer improper to use.

16:44 St James's Chronicle - Library of Congress

18:00 Rhododendron - in late 1840s and in to the 1850s, Botanist Sir Joseph Hooker bro und exotic species back from the Himalayas which was VERY exciting and the reason that the Rhododendron Dell was put in at Kew Gardens… IS IT STILL THERE? heather@craftlit.com or 1-206-350-1642, or speakpipe.com/craftlit

20:10 Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus - ONLY BOOK THAT DOESN'T MENTION GOD

LOOK! ⬆️ It's a Whole Megillah! 😂

26:00 No overland route for Poor Peter - this clues us in on when Peter went to India. [An overland route via the Red Sea was opened in the late 1830s](https://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2017/06/full-steam-ahead-overland-route-home.html

27:30 "Some Great War in India" - probably the First Anglo Burmese War (1824-26)

28:54 here's your chapter summary: Summary: Miss Matty shares the story of her brother, Peter, who left Cranford after a disagreement with their father. His absence left a lasting impact on Miss Matty, highlighting the deep bonds of family despite misunderstandings.

Post-chapter Notes

01:02:29 "Jack and Jilling it" is shorthand for when Heather refers to this article: Journal of Reading, Volume 24, No. 2, November 1980, p. 101, William H. Smith, "What they didn't tell you about Jack and Jill"

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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.

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01:28 2:42 Plum Deluxe Full Body Reset green tea. Plum Deluxe's 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: "What do you do with a problem like Emma?"

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— A bank book (also called a passbook) was given to bank customers to record all transactions in their account—- Every deposit and withdrawal was manually written into the book by a bank clerk. The customer's copy was their only proof of the account's 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 "India-rubber" was the 19th-century term for what we now just call rubber—and 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 "coumarin" - 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 "T.O." = turn over / Molly's writing is full of spelling like "Bewty" which is a subsequent joke line

25:49 Dum memor ipse Mei, dum Spiritus regift artus - Virgil, Æneid, IV.382, "While memory shall last and breath still control my limbs"

25:28 Carmen (lowercase) like CARMINA (song poem or verse)

26:54 Gentleman's Magazine 1782—Kind of an Atlantic Monthly—guess who contributed? Samuel Johnson!

27:18 M. T. Ciceroni's 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 "Rod in a pickle" - 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's Magazine and wrote "Letters 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 "Before Miss Edgeworth's 'Patronage' had banished wafers from polite society…": Patronage was a book (1814) with a character who was offended by a letter she received that was sealed with a wafer: "I wonder how any man can have the impertinence to send me his spittle" (I, 248)

33:06 "Old original post with stamp in the corner" not exactly the right watermark, but you get the idea…

34:30 "Sesquipedalian" writing - foot and a half long sesqui = 1-½ pedalis =foot looonng polysyllabic words

35:13 Buonaparte (Bony)1805 invasion fears - In case you still need to build your own

Ep. 682: Cranford | Chapter 4

Book talk begins at 10:00

A mysterious stranger stirs up gossip, secrets slip out over tea, and Miss Matty's world gets just a little more complicated.

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01:56 MAY RAFFLE - Sir Walter Scott Cross stitch from Rebecca S (Of Book it with Becca, who wrote the wonderful post: "What do you do with a problem like Emma?"

2:42 The dimensions of the cross-stitch are 9"x11" (23cmx30cm)

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03:55 - Gardening Olla DIY video 1 and a plastic bottle version and gardening video with fake drip irrigation

06:12 Send us your crafty videos!

07:18 - Thin Man Movie Watch Party, May 24, 2025. If you need to level-up to join us we've made it easy!

09:54 - Re- hash Chapter 3: A Love Affair of Long Ago - Miss Matty Jenkyns reminisces about her past romance with Mr. Holbrook, which was thwarted by her family's disapproval.

• Miss J couldn't SUCK an orange (then by ch 3 she was gone from us)
• Martha, the new girl of all work trying to learn how to do her job and nudging Major Jenkyns when he didn't serve himself fast enough

11:00 Miss Matilda SATE bolt upright (not a typo)

11:16 Poetry today from George Herbert—selections from will be featured at the end of the episodes, Euan Bartlett is the reader

12:00 "Pudding before meat" and "no broth no ball; no ball, no beef"

14:00 Yorkshire Pudding, a Humble History

15:32 Old fashioned forks - like 16th Century/1500s - were two-tine forks.

16:44 "Aminé at her grains of rice after her previous feast with the Ghoul" - from "The Story of Sidi-Nouman" from One Thousand and One Nights (1765-8) Aminé is wife of Sidi Nouman who notices she only eats rice with a bodkin. He figures out she's a Ghoul who goes to cemeteries at night to feast on the newly-buried dead so rice was pretty 'meh' for her.

17:48 "Unbecoming calashes to put on over their caps" - threw me b/c of the Caleche's in Dracula - turns out they're related! Retractable hood to put over a cap!

19:34 Tennyson - a line about cedars from 1842's "The Gardiner's Daughter" and in the original text It's missing from the published version so a conversation turn would have been less of an utter non-sequiter in the OG version.

20:30 Headsup for the crocheters in our midst.

20:48 "Locksley Hall" by Tennyson - not included accidentally.

21:04 Visiting rules - more

49:40 '"My cousin might make a drive, I think," said Miss Pole, who was afraid of ear-ache, and had only her cap on. '— spectacular set of non-sequiters (p41)

53:30 I saw, I imitated, I survived - Mary Smith as Cæsar - using rounded knife tip as a spoon-ish food delivery device

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George Herbert's poetry often draws on the natural world, gardens, and quiet reflection:

1. "The Flower"

Theme: Renewal, the seasons of the soul, joy in growth Perfect for July because: It celebrates the resurgence of beauty and hope—after cold or darkness, flowers bloom again.

"Grief melts away

Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing."

"Who would have thought my shriveled heart

Could have recovered greenness? It was gone Quite underground; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they have blown."

"Thy garden is not bare;

And I shall find once more The sweet communion with thy saints."

2. "Easter"

Yes, it's tied to the holiday, but it also celebrates light and blooming.

"Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise

Without delays, Wh…

Ep. 681: Cranford | Chapter 3

Book talk begins at 15:00

A mysterious gentleman caller? A missed dinner invite gone socially sideways? Things are getting awkwardly entertaining in the most delightfully proper way.

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03:00 Knitting Comfortably: The ergonomics of knitting by Carson Demers https://bit.ly/april-raffle

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OLD FARLEY'S (with the cat older than I am)

Pics of The Salt House

13:28 Heather attempts gardening on a deck without a hose. Sympathy and/or hints are welcomed ;) heather@craftlit.com

15:35 START OF BOOK TALK

19:20 Hortus Siccus - an arranged collection of dried plants

20:19 Judi Dench as Miss Matty in the miniseries

21:14 Articles of Engagement - rules for your servants (a contract)

22:00 wine and dessert (really wine and nuts)

22:44 Recondite - something difficult to understand

23:15 Army Lists

23:42 Bluebeard by Charles Perrault (who did NOT write the version of Tristan and Isolde we listened to)

• Moral: Curiosity, in spite of its appeal, often leads to deep regret. To the displeasure of many a maiden, its enjoyment is short lived. Once satisfied, it ceases to exist, and always costs dearly.
• Another moral: Apply logic to this grim story, and you will ascertain that it took place many years ago. No husband of our age would be so terrible as to demand the impossible of his wife, nor would he be such a jealous malcontent. For, whatever the color of her husband's beard, the wife of today will let him know who the master is. (Heather's note: I just had to add those here as I found them after I recorded)
• Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, ca. 1889), pp. 290-295.
• Lang's source: Charles Perrault, "La Barbe bleüe, "Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités: Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Paris, 1697).
• And just for fun because I've mentioned it before: Blue Beard. Additional folktales of Aarne-Thompson types 312 and 312A and - The Robber Bridegroom. Another tale by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm about a sinister bridegroom (Aarne-Thompson type 955).—The **Aarne-Thompson**-Uther Index is wrapped around the Bluebeard story like a tourniquet!

24:50 "Leave me to repose…" from poem "The Descent of Odin" by Thomas Gray (of "<…

Ep. 680: Cranford | Chapter 2

Book talk begins at 6:13.

This week's chapter is a sobering reminder that small towns sometimes carry the heaviest stories.

Also, we get another battle over Dickens vs. Johnson (yep, that again).

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• 02:40 - ME/CFS info: Listen to "The Blog" (4 min vs 19 min on "The Gist—yes, he titled them in reverse). This is one of the Long-Covid papers we've been waiting for. PEM—post-exertional malaise is "feeling tired/sore a day after a workout" on crack.

• PEM pain and brain fog can last up to two weeks after exertion…The Rank Study he mentions is the group saying "duh m'dude. If you've been in bed for a year yer gonna be tired after a workouta. You gotta get back on your exercise routine and qitcherbellyaching" —a theory that's led to permanent patient paralysis. The other study is big because it indicates that the damage is mitochondrial, not systematic (i.e., we're getting plenty of blood to our muscles. The muscles just can't do anything WITH that oxygen)

• —and podcast episode from the People who created the Visible app that has saved my life (MakeVisible.com)

• 03:20 Snake Oil!!! https://www.snakeoilgame.com/

• 04:03 RAFFLE of "Knitting Companion," the amazing ergonomic book. Join the raffle here: bit.ly/april-raffle

• 06:13 BOOK TALK BEGINS

• 06:40 - Re-hash Ch 1

• 09:35 - Humor and Gaskell

• 10:40 - I'm drinking Plum Deluxe Bookshop Blend White. To pick your own from The CraftLit Collection of Plum Deluxe Teas, visit bit.ly/craftlit-pdtea to learn more.

• 11:20 - Who's the narrator?!

• 12:26 - Bakehouses

• 14:20 - Flints haberdashery in London (UPDATE - apparently NOT a real place! But the meaning is the same.)

• 15:15 - Biblical DebORah (the pronunciation that should be used ahem) read about her in Judges 4:4.

• 15:36 - "Strong minded" women - yeah, that was an insult. Kinda like "She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted…" when Elizabeth Warren tried to read a letter from Coretta Scott King into the Congressional Record in February 2017. See Mary Wollstonecraft on masculine women on CraftLit's Weekly Constitutional playlist

• 17:50 - Sampler from Irish museum - this is not the one I remembered (they haven't digitised their entire collection) but it DOES have a shocking poem in it—by a 14 year old girl.

• 18:50 - Just a heads up: Gaskell sort of doesn't really quote things accurately—at this time code she's sort of quoting Hamlet, she also makes up words like Brunonian

• 20:02 - Sort of quoting Alexander Pope "Imitations of Horace" 1733

• 20:17 - Sort of quoting/sub-referencing Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" IV:3;32, 1596

• 20:55 - Nasty cruel Railroads. Yup.

• 22:17 - The guy who got a railroad spike through his head - Phineas Gage (podcast dispelling myths with SCIENCE!)

• 23:13 - Bonnet as helmet

• In fashion in 1820. Not in fashion by the 1840s:

• 24:50 Galignani's Messenger

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Ep. 679: Cranford | Chapter 1

Book talk begins at 16:10.

We're diving into a brand-new book, and this one's got all the charm, wit, and genteel gossip you could ask for!

The reigning queen of propriety, Miss Deborah Jenkyns, has thoughts about everything—from how to properly serve dinner to why men are mostly unnecessary. But when a certain Captain Brown dares to disrupt the delicate social balance, will Cranford's ladies be able to keep their composure?

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• 03:20 - Actually, we announced the raffle on 4/4/25. More info and entry information here: https://youtu.be/5-G_UP1AL38

• 04:50 - Elizabeth Gaskell's biography

• Chelsea in London and before the embarkment

• 05:50 - Knutsford, Cheshire

• 06:07 - Young Mr. Gaskell

• 06:37 - Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

• 06:44 - Other books of Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South, Sylvia's Lovers, and Wives and Daughters

• 07:31 - Ellen Nussey was THE friend

• 07:50 - The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family and the bookshop.org link

• 10:25 - Penguin Classics Cranford

• 10:42 - The Lawn - her home she never enjoyed

• 12:34 - Gaskell's house

• 12:41 - Rev. Gaskell's portrait

• 16:20 - Cranford mini-series

• 16:43 - Imelda Staunton at the musical, 'Gypsy' and THIS

• 17:39 - Count of Monte Cristo CraftLit book and The Three Musketeers

• 20:00 - Gigot sleeve

• 21:00 -

• 00:00 Raffle Announcement & Cranford Start Date
• 00:21 Special Book Raffle: Knitting Comfortably - bit.ly/april-raffle
• 04:17 Personal Update: Long Covid and Lecture Gigs
• 08:01 CraftLit Podcast Updates and Future Plans
• 12:14 Technical Issues and App Information - bit.ly/craftlit-newsletter
• 14:51 Upcoming Events and Watch Parties - craftlit.gumroad.com/l/craftlit-party
• 16:45 Final Thoughts and Farewell