'She was a luminous white ghost with hair as black as the crux of a storm.'
archiveofourown.org/works/56056030

#JaneEyre #fanfiction

Let someone love you just the way you are... as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are...

I'll never forget when Elizabeth Williams made me realise there may be a hidden (or maybe not very hidden, I might just be slow on the uptake), meaning to the end of #NorthandSouth . 😲
'How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence.'💋

'English authors British vintage unused mint postage stamps set, 1980 Charlotte & Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell.'

#Brontë #ElizabethGaskell #GeorgeEliot

“How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?”
#NorthandSouth
If the dinner party had not coincided with the strike, highlighting the disparity between opulence and need, might M have viewed J differently?

The old lungs and heart are not doing their best today, so I fancied writing something comforting, like a new life that is healthy.
🥰
'...the Darcys stood together..proudly filling the shades of Pemberley with a love that was bright and beautiful.'
archiveofourown.org/works/56041879

When I started writing North and South fan-fiction four years ago, I got myself this mouse mat on the left. That mat has helped me write countless stories and words. But now it’s had its day, so I made a new one.= of a bright reading woman to inspire me.
Bye mat, you did good! 👋

Sweet! I don’t usually treat myself, but I was in need of a new mouse mat and coasters, so I got myself a little gift from my own redbubble shop. I must say, I love how colourful they are! 😍🥰

Basically Margaret's attitude towards Thornton for the whole of episodes 1-2. 🤭
(Excuse the bad language 🤫)

#NorthAndSouth #EliazbethGaskell #MargaretHale #MargaretMonday

Literary critic, Lord David Cecil, said of #ElizabethGaskell :
'She was all a woman was expected to be; gentle, domestic, tactful, unintellectual, prone to tears... So far from chafing at the limits imposed on her activities, she accepted them with serene satisfaction.'
AS IF!!

Derwent Water in the Lake District

Of course, this stands alone and speaks for itself, but I wanted to share it today, as I feel Margaret Hale would have smiled to read it.

“Love a girl who writes, and live her many lives;
You have yet to find her, beneath her words of guise.
...
The stain of your lips upon her, the one she can’t discard.
Forget her tattered memories, or the pages others took;
You are her ever-after, the hero of her book.”
Lang Leav

A reminder for the week ahead

Louisa May Alcott was not interested in the love-side of #LittleWomen .
The author, who famously said, “I’d rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe” wrote, “Girls write to ask who the little women will marry, as if that was the only end and aim of a woman’s life…”

#VirginiaWoolf , a fan of the #Brontë sisters, was first published with an essay about Haworth in 1904.
In her article, one sees the beginnings of the writing style: the intimacies of family life, the significance of personal objects, and the quiet genius of creative women.