Elizabeth Gaskell: The Victorian author feeling the Bridgerton effect
BBC News By Rumeana Jahangir image copyrightBBC/Netflix image captionBridgerton (right) has been seen by 82 million viewers worldwide, ten times the audience the BBC's Cranford garnered in 2007 It is 170 years since Elizabeth Gaskell first published her most popular work Cranford but thanks to more recent period dramas, the author's novels are seeing a surge of interest from new, young fans. "I call it the Bridgerton effect," says Sally Jastrzebski-Lloyd, the manager of the museum at the author's former Manchester home, which is currently hosting an exhibition on her novel. Based on Julia Qui...
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