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Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford
'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, was expelled for reading from unsuitable passages of "Cranford" in copy left in drawing-room used for music practice.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosie Print: Book
Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford
Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, after Elizabeth Sewell had omitted a passage of Gaskell's Cranford as unsuitable to be read aloud to her pupils: '"Cranford" was left on the table in the drawing room [...] Alas, poor Rosie [a new girl from what Fraser describes as a 'a family in business'] could not resist the temptation. When I came into the room the next morning I found her devouring the forbidden page [goes on to report how the girl had to leave the school, and how Sewell and her sisters acknowledged themselves as having been to blame for admitting a child who, 'with her bar sinister of trade, had had no opportunity of knowing what honour meant.']'
