Some notes on Green Candleford

 

 

Humor

She had her moments of ecstasy in the contemplation of beauty, periods of religious doubts, hours of religious faith

Candleford was a pleasanat and peaceful place but it was no second Garden of Eden…sometimes one would break his neck falling…

Cycling was considered such a sangeorus pastime that they telegraphed news of their arrival embellished only ran down two fouls, one pig and…

Only for those with means, then for most and only men, then some women …soon almost anyone under forty was ‘awheel’

life at the post office was not dull, she reads between clients, though miss Lane would enter and ask if she knew all in the rules manual

This postman converted at a chapel revivalist meeting and now he would ask people ‘how is it with your soul? Have you found salvation?’ impertinent questions people thought

Laura invited to join the Primsrose League, but her father was a liberal, so she said so and then she was ‘contrarian’, did not think like the majority

Most men who retunred from India had no regerets, except these two, one syas I wish back there, hot, the other says we will never be back

Irish harvesters wrork so much that Miss Lane helps them with postal orders after hours to send money back home

They asked her to write the letters for them and they were very tender, different from the englsih loving to the wives

Gipsies – Laura liked gypsies, though she wished they would not come with their baskets in the office, 3, 4 at a time now how about Rosenau

This gypsy told her her fortune for writing a letter, and said you will be loved by people who don’t know you, presumably knowing she will be a writer

Mothers horrified when told about the Oscar Wilde trial – never let me hear that name again they said

Laura to deliver letters parents worried

Philip under keeper self satisfied he wants her to visit the idea that anyone could refuse an invitation was unthinkable to him. You will be my girl the most unromantic scene ever

Maybe your own tales titan and Rosenau

 

 

Flora departs in the first lines, she was fourteen and a half and would work in the Post Office in Candleford Green , perhaps like Thompson

This was a village very diffrenet from the hamlet in which she was born just like life in a country town is different from a city

At the beginning of the eighteen nineties any new subject for conversation was precious in such places

Podtmistress old friend of mother, Miss Lane

Her salary of half a crown a wekk left no margin for saving

Miss Lane was not a tall woman, but an erect carriage, commanding air gave her what was then called a ‘presence’ – she had inherited the family business, her post office work also provided her with entertainment

‘Clever’ was the general village description of her, she also had this blacksmith business, where men worked for her

Zillah is the servant good name

This postman converted at a chapel revivalist meeting and now he would ask people ‘how is it with your soul? Have you found salvation?’ impertinent questions people thought

Laura reads Don Juan by Byron in hiding miss lane wanted to burn the bbad book then Shakespeare

This man did not want to work on Sunday because he had converted above

Then Dickens Austen

Some rich lived nearby, small world while hamlet was just a segment in hamlet all poor, here some were better off

Luney Jo deaf and dumb so he was not sent to school – poor man sent to a sort of asylum, when his mother died

Baths were complicated back home, where water had to be fetched from well and fuel was scarce, but at Green Candleford, a different matter –‘unlimited hot water’

Some life Church Social with games, no films for twenty years yet would arrive or pass through

Sewing parties where one of the members read aloud, while the others sewed

Also on listening – people showed so much intrest you would expect them to go and take the books of Dickens from library, but they listened did not read

Pratt girls, somewhat pretentious fashion store well, considering and their father, aid of Laura why Miss Lane could not get someone else instead of that little country girl did not see father disappeared and returned after one year claiming he did not know the itme passed last night he ///

Baker and wife eighteen children, every eighteen months they added a new unit to their life or family

Susan gets a black eye from Sammy and she goes to the police…now that is something for people to talk about

Woman who sends workmen to take down fence with notion she has a right, like Lucky and his sister in ocurt