_Return to Cranford_ on the Internet.

I was able to catch the first episode of _Return to Cranford_ when it was broadcast a while ago, but missed the second episode. However, they're both available (at least for a while) on the PBS website. Here is the link for episode 1: http://video.pbs.org/video/1380421882/ and for episode 2: http://video.pbs.org/video/1384538881/ It's as charming as the first part of the series. Enjoy!

Elizabeth Gaskell to be honored at Westminster Abbey.

image from Clipart ETC.
Along with many of you, I really enjoyed watching the recent adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's work, Cranford, which was broadcast on KTEH and KQED in this area last year. It turns out that Elizabeth Gaskell is about to be included -- with Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, and other 19th century English novelists -- in a memorial window in Westminster Abbey, overlooking Poet's Corner. I wish I could be there to see it! Here's the link: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/mrs-gaskell-gets-her-place-in-the-sun-1786618.html

Maybe the South Bay Ladies' Tea Guild needs to have Tea with Elizabeth Gaskell when the new Cranford Christmas special is broadcast ...

The Gaskell Society
The Elizabeth Gaskell House in Plymouth Grove
Wikipedia entry for Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell's pages on the Victorian Web
Cranford at Internet Movie Database website

This just in: _Cranford_ will be broadcast again!

The makers of the Cranford series, based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novels, are making a Christmas special, scheduled to be broadcast in December 2009!

http://enchantedserenityperiodfilms.blogspot.com/2009/06/cranford-chirstmas-special-2009.html