Feb 14, 2014
With apologies to John Jakes, we are reading Elizabeth
Gaskell's
North and South
chapters
2–3, with many thanks to our reader, Barbara
Edleman. Book talk begins at 15 minutes.
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Literary Links of Interest for this chapter:
I thought you might want to see these pix again. Margaret
mentions The New Forest which is located in the counties of
Hampshire and Dorset, between the major cities of Christchurch to
the west and Southampton to the east.
You can see why Margaret would have liked it.
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