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From: The Northern Echo
Date: 20071110
Author:Steve Pratt

A SCHOOLGIRL in Yorkshire first came across Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford some "60-odd years ago".Today that York-born student is better known as Dame Judi Dench, who's reunited with the book in BBC1's muchheralded series based on the three novels."Recently, a neighbour lent me a copy of it, just like the little red copy that I read at school with a raised oval featuring a portrait of Mrs Gaskell in the corner, " says the Oscar-winning actress."I remember I used to lick my finger and press it against that raised oval and have the outline of her on my thumb. I remember that so terribly well, ...

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