5/21/2023 0 Comments Novel cranford![]() ![]() (Luckily he succeeds.) Criminal justice was far harsher then: a man could be transported to Australia for robbery and "may be sent to prison for being a vagabond for no specific act, for his general mode of life." In terms of social mobility, the character Lady Ludlow, played by Francesca Annis, would never consider engaging a servant who can write, and opposes the establishment of a school for local children. But the radical Dr Harrison is determined to save the arm and therefore the man's livelihood by setting it. When a carpenter breaks his arm, it is expected that it will have to be amputated (this was the standard treatment of the day). ![]() But there is hardly a scene in Cranford which makes you think that you would like to live in those times-they were brutish and hard. ![]() It has become fashionable recently to favourably re-examine the Victorian era. But the real strength of the series was in showing how different it was. In its Radio Times coverage of the series, the BBC emphasised the similarities between life in the Victorian period and today. ![]()
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