“[God] gave you strength to do what your conscience told you was right; and I don’t see that we need any higher or holier strength than that; or wisdom either."
- Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
In this episode Rachel and Phoebe discuss North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Often dubbed ‘The Victorian Pride and Prejudice’ it is a wonderful love story but also a story of class struggles, the industrial revolution and religious turmoil. Throughout all these themes is Gaskell’s exploration of the importance of following your conscience, maintaining your principles and speaking and acting honestly. Rachel and Phoebe look at the ways in which each of these ‘unfashionable virtues’ are represented in the novel, and why they still apply to us in the modern day.
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Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod
Works Mentioned:
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux by Thérèse de Lisieux
Illustrated London News by G.K. Chesterton
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
What's Wrong with the World by G.K. Chesterton
"The Inner Ring" by C.S. Lewis
What We're Enjoying at the Moment
Phoebe: Garden's World
Rachel: From Up on Poppy Hill (film. 2013), Whisper of the Heart (film. 1995)
Entering the Anglo-Saxon Seasons: Poetry, Liturgy and Festivity, with Eleanor Parker
Let Nothing You Dismay: The Ghost of Christmas Storytelling
Do You Reject Satan?: The Godfather and the Path to Power, with Katie Marquette
Over the Garden Wall: Finding Dante in the Unknown
Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of Grace in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Autumnal Envy: A Season of Longing and Desire
Beauty in Brideshead Revisited: The Holy and the Hedonistic
The Golden Age of Musicals and the Desire for Beauty
The Universal Truths of C.S. Lewis, with Michael Ward
The World Turned Upside Down: Chesterton’s use of Paradox in Manalive and St. Francis of Assisi
The Silent Knight: Elizabeth Lev on St. Joseph in Art through the Ages
The Grace of Gardening: Encountering Christ in Creation
Jane Austen’s Moral Imagination: A Conversation with Haley Stewart
The Time That is Given Us: Productivity and Leisure in the Modern Age
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Doubles and Duplicity: Gothic Themes in The Woman in White Featuring Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
Stranger Things in Stranger Times: Navigating Nostalgia in the Digital Age
Tolkien: A Thoroughly Modern Medievalist featuring Dr. Holly Ordway
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