Elizabeth And Darcy
Dec. 9th, 2004 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI've just watched the BBC's Pride and Prejudice- all six hours of it in a single session. I started out of duty (Ailz is studing P & P with the Open University) but I quickly became hooked.
By the end of it Elizabeth and Darcy had become so real to me that I was speculating about their future. I thought, these two will live to see Victoria come to the throne and the railways criss-cross the country and their beloved Derbyshire fill up with factories and maybe they'll still be around for the Great Exhibition in 1851. When they're approaching late middle-age someone will take their photographs. Almost certainly theyll get to read Dickens and Tennyson and....
...And then I made myself quite melancholy thinking about how they've now been dead for something like 150 years.
But, of course, they're not dead at all; they're immortal- reborn every time anyone picks up the book or watches a dramatization.
By the end of it Elizabeth and Darcy had become so real to me that I was speculating about their future. I thought, these two will live to see Victoria come to the throne and the railways criss-cross the country and their beloved Derbyshire fill up with factories and maybe they'll still be around for the Great Exhibition in 1851. When they're approaching late middle-age someone will take their photographs. Almost certainly theyll get to read Dickens and Tennyson and....
...And then I made myself quite melancholy thinking about how they've now been dead for something like 150 years.
But, of course, they're not dead at all; they're immortal- reborn every time anyone picks up the book or watches a dramatization.
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Date: 2004-12-09 06:58 pm (UTC)My greatest photographic hero(ine) is the Victorian portraitist, Julia Margaret Cameron.
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:14 pm (UTC)So you're a fellow heroine addict, eh? ::nods at icon:: ;)
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:24 pm (UTC)Did you know that Cameron was Virginia Woolf's aunt? Woolf is another big heroine of mine.
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:29 pm (UTC)Not very relevant, but it reminded me: Rita Hayworth and Ginger Rogers were cousins :)
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