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image captionBridgerton (right) has been seen by 82 million viewers worldwide, ten times the audience the BBC s Cranford garnered in 2007
It is 170 years since Elizabeth Gaskell first published her most popular work Cranford but thanks to more recent period dramas, the author s novels are seeing a surge of interest from new, young fans. I call it the Bridgerton effect, says Sally Jastrzebski-Lloyd, the manager of the museum at the author s former Manchester home, which is currently hosting an exhibition on her novel.
Based on Julia Quinn s novels, Netflix s Bridgerton, owes at least some of its success to the pioneering 19th Century works of authors like Gaskell, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and to previous retellings of their works, including the BBC s 2007 adaptation of Cranford.
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She may be small in stature, but that hasnât kept Mary Francis Clifton from living life in a big way. nearly 102 years of it.
âI was born May 10, 1919,â she said sitting in the living room of her quaint Fulton home.
Sheâs surrounded by colorful walls and all her favorite things.photos, silk flowers, and lots of stuffed animals she has collected.
âYoung people today wouldnât live through what we had too, they couldnât take it,â she said matter-of-factually. âI did, I had to.â
The family matriarch of six generations was dressed to the nines as she told her story. Her red lipstick matched her sequined red hat and dress. She added a beaded gold necklace to accent her ensemble.
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Performance of hope: Amanda Gorman recites a poem during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States.
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Should Amanda Gorman’s poem be celebrated as a poem?
You can read the poem Amanda Gorman recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony celebrated by even snooty publications like
The New Yorker simply as a speech. It cannot be faulted there. It is full of the right sentiments and hopes, coming at the end of the long night of Donald Trump’s misrule. It does not come close to the great speeches of history by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth or Martin Luther King but we do not live in an age that sets exacting standards in oratory. If we had, Trump would never have existed.
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