Cranford Abbey is based on Yolen's scholarship and schooling. The Latin, she says, comes from her high school Latin teacher.
The canonical hours that appear in the story probably come from her extensive research not only into history but into religious practices. The abbey has a problem; it needs money. The new abbot, Aelian, has a solution to the problem: the selling of cider made from the.....
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