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2005., Penguin Call No: Fic Gas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. The novel's narrator (a young woman who periodically visits Cranford) describes the small adventures in the lives of two sisters in reduced circumstances who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. Using an intimate, gossipy voice that never turns sentimental, Gaskell conveys the old-fashioned habits, subtle class distinctions, and genteel poverty of the village.
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c2011., General, Knopf Canada Call No: MYS Fic Jam Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a marvelous, thrilling re-creation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P.D. James fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her own great talent for writing crime fiction. The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome, healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seventeen miles, the ordered and secure life of Pemberley seems unassailable, and Elizabeth's happiness in her marriage is complete. But their peace is threatened and old sins and misunderstandings are rekindled on the eve of the annual autumn ball. The Darcys and their guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland, and as it pulls up, Lydia Wickham, an uninvited guest, tumbles out, screaming that her husband has been murdered.
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2019., Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: SC Fic Mac Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly, her world begins to expand beyond her wildest dreams--but she has no idea that evil is waiting in the shadows. Silas has only thought of one thing since that chance meeting, and his obsession is darkening by the day." --Amazon.com.
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2005, p1981., General, Warner Home Video : BBC Video Limited Call No: DVD Fic Great Exp (1981) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
![Great expectations [DVD] (1981). Directed by Julian Amyes](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Great expectations [DVD] (1981). Directed by Julian Amyes")
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2005., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Hard Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.
![Hard times [DVD] (1994) Directed by Peter Barnes](/Library/images/~imageCT78884.JPG "Hard times [DVD] (1994) Directed by Peter Barnes")
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2012., Adult, Bloomsbury Call No: SC 941.081 S955m Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A compelling story of romance and fidelity, insanity, fantasy, and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace brings vividly to life a complex, frustrated Victorian wife, longing for passion and learning, companionship and love.
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1992., General, Everyman's Library Call No: Fic Aus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) Volume: 109Summary Note: Novel published posthumously in 1817. Northanger Abbey, which was published with Persuasion in four volumes, was written about 1798 or 1799, probably under the title "Susan." In 1803 the manuscript of "Susan" was sold to the publisher Richard Crosby, who advertised for it, but unaccountably it was not published at that time. The novel combines a satire on conventional novels of polite society with one on gothic tales of terror. Catherine Morland, the daughter of a country parson, is the innocent abroad who gains worldly wisdom: first in the fashionable society of Bath and then at Northanger Abbey itself, where she learns not to interpret the world through her reading of gothic thrillers.
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2008., General, BBC Video ; Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Tenant Edition: DVD format ; region 1 ; widescreen (14:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo., DVD-9, NTSC. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Bronte collectionSummary Note: When the beautiful widow Helen Graham moves into the derelict Wildfell Hall with her son, she arouses great curiosity from the local villagers. Gilbert Markham is a handsome young farmer who finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Helen and encourages her to open up to him. But even the sympathetic Markham is unprepared for the secrets Helen will ultimately reveal, secrets which the repressed Victorian society would rather bury forever.
![The tenant of Wildfell Hall [DVD] (1996) Directed by Mike Barker](/Library/images/~imageCT73988.JPG "The tenant of Wildfell Hall [DVD] (1996) Directed by Mike Barker")
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-- Victorian lady's guide to sex, marriage, and manners.2016., Little, Brown and company Call No: NEW 305.42 O58u Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we secretly wanted to know about the Victorian era, but didn't think to ask. Knickers with no crotches? Check. Arsenic as a facial scrub? Check. The infrequency of bathing and the stench of the Victorian human body? Check mate.
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c1976., Holt, Rinehart and Winston Call No: 791.45 H267w Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library