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Henry Tilney: “We’re in England! No one locks up people and behaves like that here!”

Edward Fairfax Rochester, freak extraordinaire: *throws the keys to the third floor out the window*

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Jonathan Burton’s art for Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Folio Society edition.

#jane austen #northanger abbey

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Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey'

#northanger abbey #catherine moreland

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Ladyhawke (1985) dir. Richard Donner

#ladyhawke #rule of lol #gif

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Henry Tilney + Costumes, (requested by anonymous).

#northanger abbey #henry tilney #gif

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Jane Austen associating the word “rational” with women over six books:

Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart. - Elizabeth Bennet, Pride & Prejudice

“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.” - Mrs. Croft, Persuasion

She dearly loved her father, but he was no companion for her. He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful. - Emma Woodhouse, Emma

“Oh! never, never, never! he never will succeed with me.” And she spoke with a warmth which quite astonished Edmund, and which she blushed at the recollection of herself, when she saw his look, and heard him reply, “Never! Fanny!—so very determined and positive! This is not like yourself, your rational self.” Fanny Price, Mansfield Park (we know that this is very much her rational self, also after a marriage proposal)

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. -Elinor Dashwood, Sense & Sensibility

You talked of expected horrors in London—and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, - Henry Tilney, teasing his sister, Northanger Abbey

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Reading Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley and this passage got me.

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Guy who only knows thomas paine from his stay-making career in 1792: hey honey they're having to try the guy who made your bra for sedition and treason in absentia after he fled the country to avoid arrest

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Haha I’m very glad my tags passed peer review!

Imma say it. Henry Tilney. He's too charming. I don't trust it.

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I do find it fascinating that Northanger Abbey is Austen’s book that is most about other books (which is probably why I love it, honestly), and her hero is someone who LOVES words and loves interpreting them.

Henry Tilney goes on pendantic rants on the meaning of words, he manages to clear up a misunderstanding about words (and books) between Eleanor and Catherine, he makes a lot of observations on the different genres of writing that appear in the book (gothic novels and letters come to mind). He’s also a hero who by profession puts words together every week that everyone in his immediate surroundings has to hear— and someone professionally trained in the art of interpretation of very specific words in specific books.

I love the cleverness of having a hero trained in the interpretation of books then read as metaphor with heroine who has to learn how exactly to interpret gothic novels (as exaggerations and metaphors for commonplace problems) in order to mature.

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Imma say it. Henry Tilney. He's too charming. I don't trust it.

#Eleanor tolney coming in with the steel chair! #the thing about Henry is that he LOVES words #he likes saying them #he loves thinking about them #he likes arranging them in nice ways #he also likes going on pendant if rants about the word ‘nice’ #which is kind of fascinating because a lot of Austen’s rakes are very glib #they like using words to obscure their wrongdoings and obfuscate #but Henry is deeply interested in what words really mean and what they convey and what they do #so there is a sincerity to the playfulness #he’s not twisting words around to make himself look better than he is or take in other people #he just enjoys playing with them

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do you ever remember the note the scribe left at the end of catullus manuscript G and want to burst into tears

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English added by me :)

#video #autoplay #rule of lol #giving the dog money was just… chef’s kiss

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Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!

Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.

And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition

I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch

The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!

rsnstitchbank.org

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why small kittens are always either the most pathetic or the most evil creature you've ever seen