Arts
Should you read North and South without seeing Richard Armitage play Mr. Thornton first? Our hosts say: mmmmmmaybe not. But we still (mostly) enjoyed reading it, and giving a hearty middle finger to Charles Dickens, whose fault it is that the book ends so abruptly.Other works mentioned: E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class; Sven Beckert Empire of Cotton: A Global History Mary Brinker Post, Annie JordanBlood Brothers musical.Death Comes to Pemberly miniseriesBabylon Berlinhttps://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-unjustly-overlooked-victorian-novelist-elizabeth-gaskell