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tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
Yes, I've been reading Emma and browsing the Masterpiece Theatre website. I've also been mentally noting how many weeks there are 'till October 6 (premier of the Forsyte Saga on PBS) and reminding myself to look up Elizabeth Gaskell next time at the library. 'Tis official my friends, Tari is in a Victorian rut and she will not get out until she watches plenty of Merchant-Ivory productions, reads all the Sherlock Holmes stories for the fourth time, and finds all the historical GW fanfics online. Oh and this is why I want to go watch that new Kate Hudson movie, "Four Feathers," which is set in Sudan and involves lots of young dashing British officers in red uniforms.
This is your cue to run.
But seriously, it's not too surprising. I grew up on Victorian-era books, and for quite some time, I thought it was normal to have amahs if you were rich and living in India or to dress up in several layers of petticoats (I wondered why I never wore any myself and concluded that I was still too young). Then I went to school and was most severely disillusioned.
...Tari
Post-script: Have just found e-texts online for many Victorian authors, including Gaskell at List of E-Texts. Annoyingly, the files are often too big to download.
Yes, I've been reading Emma and browsing the Masterpiece Theatre website. I've also been mentally noting how many weeks there are 'till October 6 (premier of the Forsyte Saga on PBS) and reminding myself to look up Elizabeth Gaskell next time at the library. 'Tis official my friends, Tari is in a Victorian rut and she will not get out until she watches plenty of Merchant-Ivory productions, reads all the Sherlock Holmes stories for the fourth time, and finds all the historical GW fanfics online. Oh and this is why I want to go watch that new Kate Hudson movie, "Four Feathers," which is set in Sudan and involves lots of young dashing British officers in red uniforms.
This is your cue to run.
But seriously, it's not too surprising. I grew up on Victorian-era books, and for quite some time, I thought it was normal to have amahs if you were rich and living in India or to dress up in several layers of petticoats (I wondered why I never wore any myself and concluded that I was still too young). Then I went to school and was most severely disillusioned.
...Tari
Post-script: Have just found e-texts online for many Victorian authors, including Gaskell at List of E-Texts. Annoyingly, the files are often too big to download.
