Fun fact: the woman who played Elinor in this adaption of Sense and Sensibility played Charlotte Lucas in the same year’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. And, actually, you know what? Fair play. There’s a tendency when making a visual medium product with a heroine whose thing is that she’s not ... Read more »
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Things I Liked April 2022
Committing to writing one of these posts every month was probably a mistake because it means I get increasingly regular doses of oh-my-god-time-is-slipping-away that I have to work through, type up, and stick on the internet. Like every so often I’ll be listening to a YouTube video and it will be ... Read more »
The Austathon – Pride and Prejudice (1980)
I watched this series on a DVD that I had to import from the Netherlands and because I haven’t watched a DVD in literal years I couldn’t quite work out how to turn the subtitles off, which meant I wound up restarting the DVD and watching its mandatory intro reel about ten times. As a result, my ... Read more »
Metabridgerton
I vaguely considered writing something about Bridgerton eighteen months ago because it was the big thing in romance at the time and it seemed like every Ambitious Mama and Determined Batchelor on the internet was required to have a take on it, and I kind of didn’t have one. Or rather I did, but ... Read more »
Things I Liked – March 2022
Insert ye standard “oh my God, is it really 2022 already, oh my God is March really over already.” Here are some Things I Liked this month. Snacking Cheese I’m going to be trotting out the “I don’t have guilty pleasures” line several times in this post. For those who are new to the blog, I ... Read more »
The Austathon – Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
This is going to be either a really short or a really long post because I kind of have nothing to say about this film but I also feel I could say nothing about it at great length. Very, very technically speaking Jane Austen in Manhattan is an adaption of a work by Jane Austen. Where to ... Read more »
The Austathon – Emma (1972)
This is a difficult adaptation to talk about because I had very mixed feelings about it. It’s another BBC adaptation, from the same person who did Sense and Sensibility (1971) but not the same person who did Persuasion (1971). That was Granada, which may explain why it seems to have had a much ... Read more »
Books for Ukraine
EDIT: BOOKS ARE ALL GONE. FORM IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROSITY. IF YOU HAVE SLIPPED THROUGH THE NET SOMEHOW AND HAVE MADE A DONATION BEFORE THE FORM CLOSED PLEASE EMAIL MARY(AT)QUICUNQUEVULT(DOT)COM AND WE'LL SORT YOU OUT! Hello. Here’s a thing ... Read more »