All I want for Christmas, is a man in cravat

A Jane Austen couples galore for Christmas. Could have been better, but Movie Make kept annoying me so I got fed up with it. But it works, I think.

Jane Austen Revisited

I have been reading through all of Miss Austen's novels this summer. And I must say that I have held them all in a sort of romantic glow, and frankly, I'm a bit disappointed with some of them. Take Sense & Sensibility for example. I remember it to be one of my favourites, but now that I've read it again, I find it most vexatious! I'm getting so frustrated with all the people around the poor Miss Dashwoods and their mother and how ill they are treated. Is it because I've always remembered the adaptations, and not really the novel behind it? I guess the adaptations puts the more positive things as the love stories, that's of course all good. :P But perhaps it's Mr Ferrars, Mr Willoughby and Colonel Brandon that blinds me to the illtreatment of the ladies. ;)

I have reread Emma and am in the middle of Mansfield Park at the moment. They are both still as good as I remembered them, or at least not worse than I recollect. Next up is Northanger Abbey. I really should be able to relate to Catherine and her obsession with novels. ;)


I have found that my favourites now are Pride & Prejudice (no surprise there) and Persuasion. There is a tie between them. Perhaps it's because I can relate to more of the characters in those novels than in the others.

Favourite of the Week

This weeks favourite is Captain Wentworth of Jane Austen's Persuasion which I have just finished reading. I'm not sure if I've ever read it before, actually. Such a shame because it's a great novel! I have seen the adaptation from 2007, however, like a million times. I'm currently so in love with Captain Wentworth, maybe because of Rupert Penry-Jones. He is gorgeous and plays the part so well (I have seen the one from 1995 and I didn't like it as much. But that is for another blog post)!

Perhaps not so shockingly to fall for him, especially not after you have read his letter to Anne. Some people claim that Jane Austen's novels are boring and without passion, but after reading that letter, I beg the difference. It's filled with passion. Read for yourselves:

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W."

"I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never."

Persuasion chapter 23 

If that's not passionate, I don't know what is.I'm swooning right now. It is really a shame that we do not get to know more of his feelings in the book. I would have liked a chapter dedicated just to him, instead of Anne all the time. But, she is the main character, I guess. Perhaps I must write his story myself? :P 

And he can ride a horse! *drools*

Men in Cravat Turn(s) Me On

I created a new Youtube-account today, to match with the new blogadress and email. Yey! So, I just had to make a fanvideo, starring Men in Cravats, and Jane Austen heros/ines as well as Gaskell's NS couple.

Enjoy!

Men in Cravat is the Shit

I really should make a new version of this video I made a while ago. I was trying out a editing program that, if you didn't pay for it, it puts in a ugly little text in the middle. Dang, it. Still very satisfied with the video. And all those lovely men in cravat... *swoons*