Enter your state here</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Three BBC miniseries adapted from Mary Gaskells classic novels. Cranford a market town in the North West of England is a place governed by etiquette custom and above all an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules but Cranford is on the cusp of change& North & South follows Margaret Hale the daughter of a middle-class parson who uproots the family from rural southern England to start a new life in Milton - a northern mill town in the throes of the industrial revolution. Wives and Daughters is set in a richly portrayed society well-stocked with eccentric nobles and gossipy villagers. The well-ordered world of 17-year-old Molly Gibson becomes complicated when her father a respected country doctor remarries after many years of widowhood.</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br><i>Cranford</i><br><br> Adapted from Elizabeth Gaskell's novels the five-episode miniseries <I>Cranford</I> focuses on female characters in the 19th-century British town to thematically contemplate encroaching modernity in rural England. With the camera roving house to house each drama within the grander story is constructed of scenes featuring dialogue between several gossipy ladies obsessed with moral code romantic ideas about courtship and social occasions. Three main characters the ever-appropriate Deborah Jenkyns (Eileen Atkins) her sweet sister Matilda (Judi Dench) and their younger more savvy relative Miss Smith (Lisa Dillon) continuously weigh in on situations providing a dependable view when other ladies like the nosey Miss Pole (Imelda Staunton) are too judgmental. In fine period dress the women of <I>Cranford</I> remind the viewer of how little action was needed in their small-town lives to provide unceasing entertainment. The series'most intriguing aspect lies not in the ample female conversation but rather in its display of earlier technologies and ways of life. Part One for example quickly launches a main narrative thread that runs throughout the series namely the arrival and assimilation of London doctor Frank Harrison (Simon Woods) into village society. Dr. Harrison's medical practices?? such as his refusal to amputate a man's arm because it's broken?? are all the more radical because they are so fundamental by today's standards. In subsequent episodes?? he recommends Miss Smith get spectacles to cure her headaches?? and saves his love's life