#mary barton

[fictionadventurer]

I make fun of all the horrible parents in Austen, but they've got nothing on the fathers in Gaskell's works.

Austen fathers will do things like:

Sit in his library and make fun of you and your sisters instead of preparing for your futures

Be a health nut hypochondriac who prefers that he and everyone else stay safely at his home

Be a vain fop who wastes all his money

While Gaskell fathers do things like:

Murder a guy

Lose other people's money through speculation and then commit suicide

Doom himself to a lifetime of marriage with an unsuitable woman because boys were starting to be interested in you

Make you, a teenager, tell your mother that you're all going to move across the country on very little notice because he never bothered to mention the crisis of conscience he'd been wrestling with for years

Incite a mob to riot and burn down the home and business of a local family

Gaskell fathers are just living on an entirely different level of drama.

But the worst part is that the Gaskell fathers also tend to be much more loving than Austen's.

#jane austen #elizabeth gaskell #pride and prejudice #emma #persuasion #north and south #wives and daughters #mary barton #sylvia's lovers

[thisnerdywriter]

I believe John Thornton of North and South (spoiler alert) is the most beautifully masculine character ever written in English literature.

Why? Here's why (caution: love ahead, may fall in)

As everyone expects him to be, he seems to be - at first- the hard, icy arrogant businessman indifferent to other's feelings and situations more importantly those below him.

Surprisingly he is damn soft hearty (like the paws of a kitten) who loves his hard tiring life of Milton (a dirty city) and *is* considerate of his workers. He meets Margaret Hale and instantly has a crush on her. He's like, 'shut up, I don't . I am NOT feeling anything like that.' But his mother knows better.

He sees her at the dinner (ahem, organize it for the sole purpose). And gawwdd, he has to stop staring at her, so he ignores her but knows where she is all the time. He flashes his rare smiles knowing she's watching him. Before anything, he is in love with her, despite knowing she's too proud to love him back.

He accepts his love for her when she throws herself in the face of danger to protect him (he's like girl!! you're badass!!) . Now there's no going back. He's grateful for her and truly appreciates her presence in his life.

Without beating around the bush, he goes and confesses (everything. Also the fact that he's never been in love and you made me). Of course she rejected, cuz she's a proud bitch. But you know what he says? This:

"Now I love and I will love. But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part."

OMG LIKE MANNN!!!

He goes away and she catches hints of tears in his eyes. Of course he cried. He did, he went to mamma and when she asks what's up? He crys on her shoulder. A GROWN MAN WHO'S RICH SUCCESSFUL AND HANDSOME CRIES ON HIS MOTHER'S SHOULDER BECAUSE THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE REJECTED HIM!!!!!

He still loves her, he promised he always will. Looks after her family, saves her from humiliation, does her father's funeral and keep in touch with her godfather to know if she's well. He also goes to her hometown to feel how she might have grown up.

The last scenes they finally get together, he presents her a pressed flower from her hometown know she terribly misses going there. Omgggg!!!!!!!! How can anyone write such a beautiful character?????

#dark academia #north and south #elizabeth gaskell #literature #jane austen #Mr. Thornton #mr. darcy #pride and predujice #jane eyre #charlotte bronte #Persuasion #english literature #book nerd #book boyfriend #books #Mr. Tinley #colonel brandon #Mary barton #bookworm

[bookwormchocaholic]

#Elizabeth Gaskell #mary barton #ruth #cranford #north and south #Sylvia's lovers #wives and daughters #cousin phillis #classic literature #english literature #victorian literature

[adobongsiopao]

Charlotte Bronte 🤝 Elizabeth Gaskell

Manage to create a female main lead where she saves her male love interest from danger.

#charlotte bronte #elizabeth gaskell #jane eyre #north and south #mary barton #edward rochester #edward fairfax rochester #mr rochester #john thornton #mr thornton #jem wilson #mr wilson #classic literature #victorian literature

[aliteraryprincess]

#booklr #elizabeth gaskell #mary barton #north and south #cranford #ruth #my lady ludlow #a dark night's work #sylvia's lovers #wives and daughters

[gennsoup]

"Friends may meet, but mountains never."

Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

#Elizabeth Gaskell #Mary Barton #friends #friendship #friendship quotes #mountains #Victorian literature #English literature #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[dearausten]

i feel like north and south is the most talked about gaskell novel, but her other works are phenomenal as well. wives and daughters? literal perfection. cranford? i laugh every time. MARY BARTON??? THE CHILLS I GOT OH MY GOD. she’s literally the only author i love just as much as jane austen.

lizzie gaskell you will always be famous ily x

#elizabeth gaskell #north and south #wives and daughters #mary barton

[cherryrevenge]

Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell

#mine #quotes #book quotes #Mary Barton #Elizabeth Gaskell

[p1325]

“There is always a pleasure in unraveling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.”

― Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

#me #gpoy #storie senza tempo #elizabeth gaskell #mary barton #english literature #literature #timeless classics #novelas eternas #romans eternels #book #gay #gay men #lgbtq representation #lgbtqiia+ #lgbt

[thatscarletflycatcher]

elizabeth gaskell 's novel mary barton should be bbc drama

Hi!

I have to confess I haven't gotten yet to Mary Barton (Gaskell was a prolific author!). Given the current state of period drama production, I don't want anything done until some sanity is recovered, but you are right!

It seems there was one in the works in 2012 that fell through the cracks:

(I can forgive the article for not mentioning the 1970s N&S, Cranford, and Wives and Daughters, but not mentioning W&D 1999 is unforgivable).

And that there was a 1964 version believed to be lost.

There is, however, a BBC radio drama adaptation from 2007 (I'm a big fan of radio dramas):

Not available just now, but it can be found in The Elizabeth Gaskell collection you can buy from Kobo and other sites, and it's also on Audible. And may be found somewhere else (I do have a copy if anyone wants to borrow it). I haven't checked it out yet for obvious reasons, so I cannot tell how good or bad it is. The 1997 North and South is truly terrible and the 1983 Wives and Daughters is great, so... it may fall anywhere in between.

#ask #aparnasworld #elizabeth gaskell #mary barton #always come and talk to me about my underrated Victorian queen

[fictionadventurer]

It still fascinates me how Mary Barton was the first time I got a clear understanding of what the Victorian poor were like. Gaskell helped me move beyond the exaggerated image we have of Victorian England where all poor people lived in filthy hovels to see that, for the most part, these were normal people. Working people. Like me and my family and friends and most of my neighbors. People who go to a job and get a paycheck and then come home and have hobbies and interests and sometimes buy pretty things for their homes. They might be more in a more economically precarious position than most people these days--the cycle of business seems to fluctuate a more dramatically and there's not as much of a social safety net if you suddenly lose your job--but they're still just ordinary people in a familiar modern city.

And in the same book, Gaskell would have extended passages that boiled down to, "Okay, audience that is very much not of this social class, let me explain to you the unfamiliar ways of this exotic species known as The Poor." It was so wild to me that she could both humanize and exoticize the exact same people at pretty much the exact same time.

#books #elizabeth gaskell #mary barton #turns out i had some gaskell thoughts stored up

[kirkypet]

Mary Barton, Chapter 35 😭😭😭

#mary barton #elizabeth gaskell #literally fucking bawling

[hoursofreading]

oh, who needs 50 shades of gray when we have this!

#mary barton

[literaturoved]

Поступки людей необразованных приводят на память Франкенштейна – чудовище, обладающее многими человеческими качествами, но не наделенное душой и не различающее добро и зло. Простые люди пробуждаются к жизни – поведение их раздражает нас, приводит в ужас, ожесточает. Но вот наступает печальная минута нашего торжества, и они смотрят на нас с молчаливым укором. Зачем мы сделали их такими – могучим чудовищем, которому не дано узнать ни покоя, ни счастья?

Элизабет Гаскелл. Мэри Бартон

#Мэри Бартон #Элизабет Гаскелл #Mary Barton #Elizabeth Gaskell #Цитаты #quotes

[confusedhummingbird]

#Marvel #Polls #T'Challa #Shuri #Sue Storm #Johnny Storm #Wanda Maximoff #Pietro Maximoff #Billy Kaplan #Tommy Shepherd #Thor Odinson #Loki Laufeyson #Scott Summers #Alex Summers #Clint Barton #Barney Barton #Piotr Rasputin #Illyana Rasputin #Jean-Paul Beaubier #Jeanne-Marie Beaubier #Betsy Braddock #Brian Braddock #Gamora #Nebula #Anna Marie #Rogue #Kurt Wagner

[remuslupinkinnie1979]

Hi, I kinda have a problem. Yesterday I got an amazing idea [drums 🥁🥁🥁] marauders MCU au. I've been assigning marvel characters to marauders and that's how it is now:

Tony Stark -

Chris Rogers - James Potter

Natasha Romanoff -Lily Evans

Bruce Banner -Remus Lupin

Clint Barton - Peter Pettigrew

Thor - Sirius Black

Loki - Regulus

Maria Hill - Mary

Nick Fury - McGonagall ???

Wanda Maximoff -  Pandora

Pepper Potts -

Odin - Dumbledore

Peter Parker

Carol Dancers (captain Marvel) - Marlene McKinnon

Valkyrie -Dorcas meadowes

As you can see I have no idea who should go as Tony. My first thought was James, then it changed to Sirius, but if Loki will be Regulus (which I'm 100% sure ab) then Sirius has to be Thor bc brothers dynamic. So do you have any suggestions?

#marauders era #dead gay wizards #dead gay witches #lily evans #james potter #mary mcdonald #sirius black #remus lupin #natasha romanoff #steve rogers #maria hill #thor odinson #bruce banner #marlene mckinnon #clint barton #peter pettigrew #odin #dumbledore #albus dumbledore #pandora rosier #wanda maximoff #peter parker #nick fury #minerva mcgonagall #carol danvers #Valkyrie #dorcas meadowes