Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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12/22/22

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Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: comedy

It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for a while as a young woman. This assertion is born out by an essay she wrote in 1849 entitled The Last Generation in England, in which she writes about 'The town in which I once resided ...'. There can be little doubt when reading this that it provided her with the template for Cranford.

In 1851 the year she began to write Cranford, she also wrote a novella entitled Mr. Harrison's Confessions. It describes the life of a country doctor in a small provincial town. Mrs. Gaskell's model for this town could also only have been Knutsford which she knew and loved so well. The story revolves around the arrival in the town of a young doctor and the attempts of the ladies of the town to place his status within their society and of course to find him a suitable wife. It is often thought of as a prequel to Cranford

Both of these pieces together with the novels, My Lady Ludlow and Cranford were used by the BBC to create the Television series Cranford in 2007.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:22:14) Chapter 2

(00:53:34) Chapter 3

(01:11:17) Chapter 4

(01:36:12) Chapter 5

(01:57:37) Chapter 6

(02:17:14) Chapter 7

(02:41:36) Chapter 8

(03:03:08) Chapter 9

(03:25:04) Chapter 10

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Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

December 22, 2022

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376m

Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.

The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well. The book has little in the way of plot and is more a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters. The 'major' event in the story is the return to Cranford of their long-lost brother, Peter, which in itself is only a minor portion of the work...

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:52) Chapter 02

(00:51:21) Chapter 03

(01:09:08) Chapter 04

(01:30:42) Chapter 05

(01:52:54) Chapter 06

(02:16:37) Chapter 07

(02:37:21) Chapter 08

(03:02:56) Chapter 09

(03:22:27) Chapter 10

(03:50:04) Chapter 11

(04:12:36) Chapter 12

(04:28:58) Chapter 13

(04:51:01) Chapter 14

(05:26:06) Chapter 15

(05:51:11) Chapter 16

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North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 22, 2022

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1156m

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the aggressive northerners of the dirty, smoky industrial town of Milton. But as she adapts to her new home, she defies social conventions with her ready sympathy and defense of the working poor. Her passionate advocacy leads her to repeatedly clash with charismatic mill owner John Thornton over his treatment of his workers. While Margaret denies her growing attraction to him, Thornton agonizes over his foolish passion for her, in spite of their heated disagreements. As tensions mount between them, a violent unionization strike explodes in Milton, leaving everyone to deal with the aftermath in the town and in their personal lives.

Elizabeth Gaskell serialized North and South between September 1854 and January 1855 in Charles Dickens’s magazine Household Words. Upon its publication, Gaskell established herself as a novelist capable of serious discourse on social responsibility and advocacy for change in defiance of established authority.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:19) Chapter 02

(00:44:09) Chapter 03

(01:06:59) Chapter 04

(01:33:01) Chapter 05

(02:02:25) Chapter 06

(02:17:21) Chapter 07

(02:36:06) Chapter 08

(02:59:07) Chapter 09

(03:08:58) Chapter 10

(03:29:29) Chapter 11

(03:47:35) Chapter 12

(04:01:13) Chapter 13

(04:17:29) Chapter 14

(04:31:13) Chapter 15

(05:09:16) Chapter 16

(05:29:20) Chapter 17

(05:49:54) Chapter 18

(06:10:34) Chapter 19

(06:39:34) Chapter 20

(07:03:01) Chapter 21

(07:23:16) Chapter 22

(07:57:52) Chapter 23

(08:15:47) Chapter 24

(08:30:55) Chapter 25

(08:58:14) Chapter 26

(09:11:48) Chapter 27

(09:27:10) Chapter 28

(10:10:45) Chapter 29

(10:25:34) Chapter 30

(10:56:38) Chapter 31

(11:21:23) Chapter 32

(11:33:00) Chapter 33

(11:45:58) Chapter 34

(11:58:14) Chapter 35

(12:34:34) Chapter 36

(13:01:12) Chapter 37

(13:25:29) Chapter 38

(13:57:45) Chapter 39

(14:20:42) Chapter 40

(14:53:15) Chapter 41

(15:22:52) Chapter 42

(15:49:49) Chapter 43

(16:11:30) Chapter 44

(16:35:50) Chapter 45

(16:43:03) Chapter 46

(17:29:33) Chapter 47

(17:42:24) Chapter 48

(17:57:22) Chapter 49

(18:12:15) Chapter 50

(18:37:11) Chapter 51

(18:53:20) Chapter 52

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