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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Miss
Betty
Barker
was
the
daughter
of
the
old
clerk
at
Cranford
who
had
officiated
in
Mr
Jenkyns’s
time.
She
and
her
sister
had
had
pretty
good
situations
as
ladies’
maids,
and
had
saved
money
enough
to
set
up
a
milliner’s
shop,
which
had
been
patronised
by
the
ladies
in
the
neighbourhood.
Lady
Arley,
for
instance,
would
occasionally
give
Miss
Barkers
the
pattern
of
an
old
cap
of
hers,
which
they
immediately
copied
and
circulated
among
the
élite
of
Cranford.
I
say
the
élite,
for
Miss
Barkers
had
caught
the
trick
of
the
place,
and
piqued
themselves
upon
their
“aristocratic
connection.”
They
would
not
sell
their
caps
and
ribbons
to
anyone
without
a
pedigree.
Many
a
farmer’s
wife
or
daughter
turned
away
huffed
from
Miss
Barkers’
select
millinery,
and
went
rather
to
the
universal
shop,
where
the
profits
of
brown
soap
and
moist
sugar
enabled
the
proprietor
to
go
straight
to
(Paris,
he
said,
until
he
found
his
customers
too
patriotic
and
John
Bullish
to
wear
what
the
Mounseers
wore)
London,
where,
as
he
often
told
his
customers,
Queen
Adelaide
had
appeared,
only
the
very
week
before,
in
a
cap
exactly
like
the
one
he
showed
them,
trimmed
with
yellow
and
blue
ribbons,
and
had
been
complimented
by
King
William
on
the
becoming
nature
of
her
head-dress.
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