#jane forster

[nauurrf1]

when Jane Austen said “If i loved you less I might be able to talk about it more” and when hozier said “I’m so full of love i could barely eat” and when Taylor swift said “I’ve spent my whole life trying to put it into words but you can hear it in the silence” and when EM Forster said “because I say so little you think I don’t feel. I care a lot” and when hozier also said “I could never define all that you are to me” and then Florence Welch said “I thought that love was some kind of emptiness. At least I understood then the hunger I felt” and whe-

#HOW DID THEY KNOW #for the girlies (gender neutral) who are filled to the brim with love #and if they show even an ounce of it they might die #web weaving #hozier #florence and the machine #em forster #taylor swift #jane austen #not f1

[nevaeh-daughterofvalcarol]

The death of Jane in Love and Thunders hits where it hurts everytime. Along with the moment Valkyrie cries, and she get stabbed and you know that one moment on the "stage" when they're fighting ??? Valkyrie is still as hot as the first time I saw it

#nev talks ✨💙✨ #valkyrie #king valkyrie #brunnhilde #jane foster #Dr. Jane forster #mighty thor #love and thunder

[liketheshygirl]

Feeling uncertain and inexperienced

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë​​; Howard end by E. M. Forster; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Persuasion by Jane Austen; Evelina by Fanny Burney; A room with a view by E. M. Forster; Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

#web weaving #phrases #novels #classic literature #dark academia #light academia #jane austen #anne brontë #e.m forster #fanny burney #pride and prejudice #a room with a view #persuasion #agnes grey #howards end #evelina #mansfield park #literature #naivety #female experience

[shutupcrime]

Idk how to describe it, but George Emerson and Mr Darcy are on exact opposite ends of romantic lead spectrum yet both possess insane amounts of autistic swag just executed in wildly different ways

#pride and prejudice #a room with a view #Jane Austen #em forster #george emerson #lizzie bennet #mr Darcy #helena bonham carter #maggie smith #Judi dench #Maurice #call me by your name #pride and predjudice 2005 #fitzwilliam darcy #Daniel day Lewis #Julian sands

[ian-thebean]

so lovely to watch emma. 2020 and see alec scudder as mr weston! this is my first time seeing it since watching maurice and it was so funny to me

of course, rupert graves's performance is very different, but it made me imagine old alec in regency clothing. which delighted me because i am A Freak

#maurice #alec scudder #em forster #jane austen #emma.

[and--everything]

My two favourite kiss scene

F**king adorable parallels. Love both these couples!!! Arghhhh!

what's up with lovers and bushes XD

#a room with a view #northanger abbey #best kissing scene #period romance #helena bonham carter #julian sands #jj feild #felicity jones #catherine morland #henry tilney #lucy honeychurch #george emerson #em forster #jane austen #aesthetic movies #aesthetic scenes #must watch #guilty pleasures #must watch period dramas #must read period romances #tumblr hidden gems

[balladof-bignothing]

a trip to waterstones yesterday resulted in the purchase of a much needed tote bag, and two much less needed books!

[sci-firenegade]

Holy shit! He's Mr Rochester!

Publicity pictures for Belgrade's production of Jane Eyre, featuring William Russell and Marion Forster, plus a review.

Oh to be alive back then!

Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 21 June 1966

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 22 June 1966

Transcription:

A very worthy 'Jane Eyre' at the Belgrade

Can a stage adaptation really do justice to a novel of such dimensions as Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"? If not, then is it worthwhile attempting it at all?

These were nagging questions raised in my mind after watching William Bryden's production, which opened at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, last night.

But let me say immediately that this was a very worthy effort, with extremely sympathetic performances, particularly from William Russell who gave Rochester a compelling air of authority, and from Marion Forster, who caught a great deal of Jane's indomitable spirit.

The Belgrade is using an adaptation by Helen Jerome, who knits together quite purposefully the main threads of Miss Bronte's novel.

The play opens with a fleeting glimpse of Jane's harsh life as an orphan, then moves swiftly to Thornfield Hall, where she arrives as governess to Rochester's ward.

Thereafter we watch Jane's relationship with the master of the house blossom into romance, only to become love frustrated when the true identity of the maniac incarcerated in the west wing is revealed as they stand before the altar for the marriage ceremony.

Finally there is the bitter-sweet ending, with Jane returning to her lover, who is now scarred and sightless following the fire which causes his wife's death.

Authentic atmosphere

The stage version is very much Victorian melodrama in the grand manner, and it is difficult to put it across on a convincing level, no matter how hard the cast may try.

Even so, Mr. Bryden's production goes a long way towards establishing an authentic atmosphere, aided by Lawrence Collett's evocative setting.

William Russell has the vocal power to make Rochester a dominating figure, a man with a sardonic sense of humour who is capable of deep love despite his outward show of being "as gard and tough as a rubber ball".

Playing opposite him, Marion Forster gives a sensitive portrayal as Jane despite failling to appear young enough to emphasise the big difference in ages between the two characters.

#photos are bleh but he looks so good #i'm not even a jane eyre fan but i would watch it #jane eyre #william russell #marion forster #sci's musings

[dragonsrfire]

My Roman Empire

#period drama #romance #regency era #20th century #Endgame #second chances #second chance romance #em forster #jane austen #fandom ships #fan edit #pride and prejudice #lizzie x darcy #maurice 1987 #Maurice edit #maurice hall #maurice x alec #elizabeth bennet #mr darcy #alec scudder

[lesdramasdumonde]

gif set for my favorite classical literature authors, and representing the women and queer writers of the 19th century 💜

Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey

Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre

Elizabeth Gaskell | North & South

Louisa May Alcott | Little Women

Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray

E.M. Forster | A Room with a View

#literary favorites #jane austen #charlotte brontë #elizabeth gaskell #louisa may alcott #oscar wilde #em forster #period drama #northanger abbey #jane eyre #north and south #little women #the picture of dorian gray #a room with a view #pride

[vital-information]

“Any schoolchild understands that we must utilise these ideas in our reading strategies; that we must overcome prejudice to accept Darcy as our hero, we must employ a degree of sense to take the correct ethical measure of the misleading attractions of a Captain Wickham or a Frank Churchill and so on. All of Austen's positivist protagonists read situations, refine them, strip the irrelevant information from the significant, and proceed accordingly. They are good readers and as such, as James Wood has noted, they encourage good reading from others. This is the great, humane basis of the English comic novel.

It seems odd, then, that Forster - although his work is so heavily influenced by Austen - differs from her on this key point. His protagonists are not good readers or successful moral agents, but chaotic, irrational human beings. Lucy Honeychurch, Maurice Hall, Helen Schlegel - Forster's people wouldn't stand a chance against Austen's protagonists. Forster's folk are famously always in a muddle: they don't know what they want or how to get it. It has been noted before that this might be a deliberate ethical strategy, an expression of the belief that the true motivations of human agents are far from rational in character. Forster wanted his people to be in a muddle; his was a study of the emotional, erratic and unreasonable in human life. But what interests me is that his narrative structure is muddled also; impulsive, meandering, irrational, which seeming faults lead him on to two further problematics: mawkishness and melodrama. A contemporary reviewer worked out that the rate of unexpected fatal incident in The Longest Journey amounts to 45 per cent of the novel's population. These idiosyncrasies have been seen as grave failings of Forster's. When placed beside two more of his heroes, Tolstoy and Flaubert, he does suffer. Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary are as wilful and irrational as any Forster protagonist, after all, and yet the novels they find themselves in are not. Those two women are like exotic butterflies under glass, held still for our examination within a controlled, measured, rational narrative. Why couldn't Forster manage that?

Forster himself was conscious of the connection between his style and his ethics in an interesting way. He felt his infamous muddle had value, and that the more controlled, clear, Austen-like elements of his style were ethically problematic.

…

Central to the Aristotelian inquiry into the Good life is the idea that the training and refinement of feeling plays an essential role in our moral understanding. Forster's fiction, following Austen's, does this in exemplary fashion, but it is Forster's fiction that goes further in showing us how very difficult an educated heart is to achieve. It is Forster who shows us how hard it is to will oneself into a meaningful relationship with the world; it is Forster who lends his empathy to those who fail to do so. And it is Forster who, in his empathic efforts, will allow his books to get all bent out of shape - The Longest Journey , an infamous melodrama to some, was the novel the author loved best.

Forsterian characters are in a moral muddle; they don't feel freely; they can't seem to develop. Most comic novelists fear creating one-dimensional characters; Forster bravely made this fear a part of his art.”

— Zadie Smith, “Love, Actually”

#zadie smith #jane austen #em forster #writing #quotes #litblr

[ghost-monkeyy]

apparently not everyone thinks about the six idiots all the time so I need to find more mutuals haha! I adore HH and watch ghosts pretty much on repeat with a friend at uni. I love parts of Yonderland but they did lose me on some of the storyline (although I think that's the point 😂)

other obsessions include good omens, motorsport, monkeys, Eurovision, classical literature (Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, E M Forster in particular)

#six idiots #bbc ghosts #horrible histories #yonderland #motorsport #good omens #lgbtqia+ #books & libraries #eurovision #jane austen #oscar wilde #e m forster

[aestheticcommons]

Double Media Feature

So if Die Hard, Sirens, and Brooklyn 99 had a baby...it would be this. It is hilarious. A bomb diffuse team on NYE trying to beat a record. It's short, it's great, it's got Jacobi, Loveless, and Eiffel from Wolf 359. I laughed out loud and started talking to the podcast.

So what am I working on while I do this?

I am revitalizing a copy of Maurice I bought from a used book store that fell apart upon opening it. I think the person who originally bought it never read it. It was a really copy glued together size 9 font affair with no margins. Add to this the fact that the book is close to 30 years old....and you can imagine the amount of damage. Maurice one of my favorite books. I think I like it for the reasons that other people like Jane Austen. I don't really care for Jane Austen, but I love the movie adaptations. They're great background noise. Plot wise though I get frustrated because it's still the upper class discarding the lower class (I am looking at you Sense and Sensibility) or supposing to lean into challenging class expectations by doing exactly what is best case scenario (That would be you Pride and Prejudice). The only one I really liked was Lady Susan and really I liked that one because it was SO much like Les Liaisons dangereuses.

Maurice is a favorite because Maurice chooses Alec and Alec chooses him. They really do forsake EVERYTHING for one another. I guess it's like what Pride and Prejudice would be if Darcy really did pick someone beneath him and the story was told from his side....or if any of the men in Sense and Sensibility had actually stood by any of the women they had knocked up or abandoned. It's more romantic to me I guess because it's.....

Yupe it's both of them going full Carly Rae Jepsen.

I've managed to get the thing type set correct, got the page numbers on there and did a few additions for my own sake. The joys of binding means that I can make the book "better."

Really by better I mean more user friendly. I've added a table of contents, and about halfway though an index (I had to redo it twice now, it's hard on the spirit to have SUCH failure), and the update of the global stance of homosexuality for 2022. I'm currently at over 100 hours on this project, but I think it's well worth the time given that legislation I saw take root in Virginia. I worry for the state of minority and queer texts with things like that in the wings, but to be fair I also worry about another Hays Code era given that some of the books tangled up in that lawsuit are straight couples.

This is how these things kind of start....legislation and the law can be dangerous. But maybe I'm paranoid. But...given what Texas and Florida and even Georgia have going on...needless to say I'm cultivating avenues to protect banned/challenged books. We always say it's to protect kids, but it's really about just removing chances to curate empathy I think. It's to casually and quietly make people "weird" or "strange" and in doing so make children grow up believing that those people might be wrong or evil. That's how you teach children hatred.

Now thinking about what I'm doing....I guess Maurice was the right choice to bind and customize. The whole book Maurice is struggling with who he is...

When I'm finished, DM me if you would like a copy of my edition? Anyone interested in my hundred of notes regarding the symbolism that I did when I was proofing my screwed up print outs that @evil-robot-cat had to pep talk me through?

#Spotify #wolf 359 #one week #comedy #podcast #zero hours #pride #gay #literature #classics #e.m. forster #durham #virginia #hays code #virago publishing #pride and prejudice #carly rae #time:bombs #jane austen #sense and sensibility #lady susan #les liaisons dangereuses #bookbinding #alec #schudder #bisexual #texas #georgia #florida

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The principal purport of his letter was to inform them that Mr. Wickham had resolved on quitting the militia.

It was greatly my wish that he should do so as soon as his marriage was fixed on. And I think you will agree with me, in the removal from that corps as highly advisable, both on his account and my niece's. It is Mr. Wickham's intention to go into the regulars; and among his former friends, there are some some who are able and willing to assist him in the army. He had the promise of an ensigncy in General —'s regiment, now quartered in the North. It is an advantage to have it so far from this part of the kingdom. He promises fairly; and I hope among different people, whether they may each have a character to preserve, they will both be more prudent. I have written to Colonel Forster, to inform him of our present arrangements, and to request that he will satisfy the various creditors of Mr. Wickham in and near Brighton, with assurances of speedy payment, for which I have pledged myself. And will you give yourself the trouble of carrying similar assurances to his creditors in Meryton, of whom I shall subjoin a list according to his information? He has given in all his debts; I hope at least he has not deceived us. Haggerston has our directions, and all will be completed in a week. They will then join his regiment, unless they are first invited to Longbourn; and I understand from Mrs. Gardiner, that my niece is very desirous of seeing you all before she leaves the South. She is well, and begs to be dutifully remembered to you and your mother.

Yours, &c.

E. Gardiner.

"Pride and Prejudice" - Jane Austen

#book quotes #pride and prejudice #jane austen #letter #mr gardiner #mr wickham #updates #militia #job transfer #marriage #army #regiment #career change #colonel forster #lydia bennet #moving house #creditor #assurance #debts #mrs gardiner

[tenth-sentence]

She represented to him all the improprieties of Lydia's general behaviour, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of such a woman as Mrs. Forster, and the probability of her being yet more imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must be greater than at home.

"Pride and Prejudice" - Jane Austen

#book quote #pride and prejudice #jane austen #elizabeth bennet #mr bennet #impropriety #lydia bennet #behavior #advantages #friendship #mrs forster #imprudent #brighton #temptation

[feliciitymontague]

in my classics era and gonna start posting on here again - we all have dracula daily to thank

#dont know why i didnt rmbr this acct when i was reading a bunch in the beginning of the yr lmfao #but so far ive been reading/have read the heroes of olympus series #never let me go by kazuo ishiguro #pride and prejudice by jane austen - which was good!! #and a room with a view by em forster #just bought picture of dorian gray & i hope to reread the awakening by kate chopin this summer too!!! #also am in the middle of rereading trc #talia.txt