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Old 11-19-2008, 10:16 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by RedHeadGal View Post
I'm not sure why you should be ashamed about this. Because it's a period drama or something? And period dramas are for girls? Gaskell was a Victorian author, not a contemporary of the much malingned (around here) Jane Austen. Would you be ashamed to watch a Dickens piece as well?
Having posted I loved Cranford, obviously I don't see a reason to be ashamed of that fact. I stated that "I'm not ashamed" to swat preemptively anyone who thinks to the contrary.

Love Austen; and Dickens.
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