Persuasion: Recognizable Actors

Here are the actors/actresses on Persuasion movies who I recognized from other old-fashioned films.

(* means I haven’t actually seen it (or all of it); therefore I may not approve of it, but I always hear about that person being in that movie, or may have recognized them from the portions I saw.)

1995

Amanda Root (Anne Elliot) – Miss Temple on Jane Eyre (1996), Mrs. Harleth on *Daniel Deronda



Miss Bates (Emma 1996)



Ciaran Hinds (Captain Wentworth) – Mr. Rochester on Jane Eyre (1997), Michael Henchard on The Mayor of Casterbridge, Lord Tarleton on Amazing Grace

Sophie Thompson (Mary Musgrove) – Miss Bates on Emma (1996, Miramax), Miss Lacreevy on Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Victoria Hamilton (Henrietta Musgrove) – Ruby Pratt on *Lark Rise to Candleford, Mrs. Forster on Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Fiona Shaw (Mrs. Croft) – Mrs. Reed on Jane Eyre (1996)

2007

Edmund Betram (Manfield Park)

Rupert Penry-Jones (Capt. Wentworth) – St. John Rivers on Jane Eyre (1997)

Nicholas Farrell (Mr. Musgrove) – Edmund on Mansfield Park (1983), Henry Thornton on Amazing Grace

Liebster Award

I've been awarded by Charity at Austenitis and Abby at Newly Impassioned Soul with the....

Thank you both very much! I am quite pleased to have made your list!

Charity looked up 'liebster' and found out that it meant 'dearest' in German. That's such a nice Jane Austenish word! Like: "I meant something less mournful, dearest!" Okay, yes, that's not actually from a book it's from the 1995 Sense and Sensibility...but it still applies. ;-)

Well, dearest bloggers, I am supposed to choose 5 blogs to award. Now I don't follow very many blogs, so if I follow yours, that means I really like it. =) And I sometimes read blogs that I don't follow as well.

So, the 5 I chose I'm listing in alphabetical order according to blog names...

Charity at:

"Missie" at:

 

Maria Elisabeth at:

Miss Georgiana Darcy

Abby at:

Newly Impassioned Soul

Jessica at:

Our Cottage in the Heartland

It was hard for me to decide between Austenitis and Elegance of Fashion...with either one, I'd be awarding them a 3rd time. I finally decided on Austenitis because this particular blog award is supposed to be for blogs with less than 200 followers, to spread the word about smaller blogs. Elegance of Fashion has more followers than Austenitis, so that's why I chose the latter.

And Miss Laurie, it's great that Old-fashioned Charm reached 200 followers but it's too bad I couldn't award you! =)

So, here's what you're supposed to do if you were awarded:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them.

2. Give the Liebster Blog Award to five bloggers and comment on their blogs, letting them know they got it. 

3. Copy and paste the award to your blog.
     It's at the top of the blog

4. Have faith your followers will spread the love to other bloggers.

5. Have blogging fun!

 

Quotes from Persuasion

“If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.” – Mary Musgrove

“A few months hence, and the room now so deserted, occupied by her silent, pensive self, might be filled again with all that was happy and gay, all that was glowing and bright in prosperous love, all that was most unlike Anne Elliot!”

“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.” – Admiral Croft

Anne: My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

William Elliot: You are mistaken, that is not good company, that is the best.

“[M]y sore-throats, you know, are always worse than anybody’s.” – Mary

“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman!—--He ought not----he does not.” – Captain Wentworth

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.” – Anne

“Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.” – Mrs. Smith

“What wild imaginations one forms, where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!” – Anne

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.” – Anne

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.” – Anne

“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.” – Part of Captain Wentworth’s letter

"The Ultimate Book Bash" questions

Charity at Austenitis is hosting:


Here are my answers to the questions. Sorry there aren't any pictures - I'm really short on time.

1.       Name three books you love.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Emma by Jane Austen, A Gown of Spanish Lace by Janette Oke

2.       Name two books you enjoy, but that most people probably haven't heard of.

The School Story by Andrew Clements, Fifteen by Beverly Cleary

3.       Name three series you love.

My favorite definitely used to be the Mandie series by Lois G. Leppard; Samantha & Kit American Girl books (does that count as one?), Love Comes Softly series by Janette Oke.

4.       Name three authors you love!

Jane Austen, Janette Oke, Elizabeth Gaskell (even though I haven’t read a whole book by her yet, I like her stories)

5.       How about three adventures or mysteries?

Running Out of Time by Margaret P. Haddix. Sorry, I can’t think of 3.

6.       Three non-fiction?

The Jane Austen Handbook by Margaret C. Sullivan, Jane Austen for Dummies, Jane Austen’s Letters (okay, that’s just the first three that came to my mind. Haha)

7.       Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys? Which book in your favorite set is your favorite?

Nancy Drew. Probably The Mystery at Lilac Inn or The Clue of the Broken Locket, but then I haven’t read an excessive amount of those.

8.       Narnia or Harry Potter? Name your favorite from the series you like best.

Really neither, but definitely NOT Harry Potter. As far as Narnia goes, I’ve only read about half of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe a pretty long time ago.

9.       A cookbook or a how-to-sew book?

Well, it depends on what I’m cooking and what I’m sewing. But probably sewing…that has the most interesting pictures. ;-)

10.   Historical fiction or fantasy? Name three books you like from the genre you chose.

Historical fiction! Um…A Gown of Spanish Lace by Janette Oke, When Calls the Heart by the same, A School of Her Own by Arleta Richardson. (All three of those are about teachers, my favorite historical fiction subject.)

11.   Hardcover or softcover?

That depends on whether it makes it easier or harder to hold, but maybe hardcover.

12.   Louisa May Alcott or Lucy Maud Montgomery? Name your favorite book by the author you chose.

I suppose I must say Lucy Maud Montgomery since I have finished some of her books. Probably Anne of Green Gables. (I also really like Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island.)

13.   Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte? Name your favorite book by the author you chose.

Jane Austen!!!!!!! What, just one? Well, Pride and Prejudice.

14.   Would you rather read historical fiction about the sinking of the Titanic, or the Civil War?

Probably the Civil War. That has a better ending. :-)

15.   What's your favorite classic? Why?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Yes, this is the 3^rd time I mentioned that book.

   It has such variety in it, so many interesting characters, and is – as Jane Austen cheerfully observed – ‘light, bright, and sparkling.’ It’s so fun to read; when I pick it up it never fails to put a smile on my face. It’s so easy to laugh when reading Pride and Prejudice! Oh yes, and then of course we have Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. With such a heroine and hero, how could it fail to be delightful?

16.   Little Women or A Little Princess?

I’ve never actually finished either book (shocking, I know), but probably Little Women.

17.   What's your favorite time period to read about?

That depends on the setting. If it’s in England, probably the early 1800s (Regency period…surprise!) and if in America, usually I like mid-late 1800s.

18.   G. A. Henty, J. R. R. Tolkien, or Charles Dickens? What's your favorite book or series by the author you chose?

Charles Dickens. I haven’t actually read any of his books, but Little Dorrit might be my favorite story. (I might never read it though…it is excessively long!) I’m going to be reading A Tale of Two Cities for school.

19.   Ivanhoe or Ben-Hur?

I actually haven’t read either. Am I very ill-educated?

20.   Name three books everyone should read.

The Bible, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (4^th time!), and another Jane Austen of their choice.

21.   Name two books we wouldn't have expected you to enjoy.

I really have no idea. What wouldn’t you expect me to enjoy? Maybe one would be Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink.

22.   Name three books that have good movies to go with them.

I do hope you will forgive me for altering this question…but I’m going to name 3 authors that have good movies to go with some of their books:

Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens

23.   Any books coming out soon that you're looking forward to?

The Fiddler by Beverly Lewis

24.   Name two authors you'd like to talk to.

Jane Austen (unfortunately impossible), Jamie Langston Turner (or someone else who’s a Christian and mentions Jane Austen in her book[s]. hehe)

25.   Science fiction or a fairy tale?

Probably fairy tale, but it depends on what kind.

26.   A classic book you haven't read is...?

Lots! Let’s see…Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

27.   Shakespeare or George Bernard Shaw (who wrote Pygmalion)?

Shakespeare, I would suppose.

28.   Name a movie (or two) where it's actually better than the book.

Mary Poppins (ugh! And I don’t even like the movie, but the book…), and probably any fairy-tale turned Disney (namely Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty).

29.   Where is your favorite place to read?

My bed. However, if I could read anywhere I wanted, it would be a neat old attic or a relaxing chair in a beautiful garden.

30.   What are your favorite quotes from books?

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerable stupid.” – Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” –Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” –Mr. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

31.   What book would you most like to see made into a movie?

That is a very hard decision. If we’re talking about something that’s already been made into a movie but needs a different one, I’d say Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. But I would love to see movies of Running Out of Time and A Gown of Spanish Lace, if they are faithful to the books. Oh and also Jane Austen’s minor works would be great. =D

32.   What book character do you identify the most with?

I identify with Elizabeth Bennet, Marianne Dashwood, and Catherine Morland all in different ways. ;-)

Introducing: Pages

I've just added the 'pages' element to my blog. It's at the top of my sidebar, under 'followers. Here are the sections I have so far:

"Jane Austen's works: a book by book study"
   This is what I've generally been doing with my blog, taking one book at a time and doing a series of posts about it. This page keeps track of what I've posted. Also when I have a post connected with one of the books but it wasn't really in the "section", I put that over to the right.

"Blog Buttons"
   I don't know about you, but when people have different blog buttons, I like to switch them around every so often for something new. I only have 2 so far, but I hope to add more in the future.
                 Here's my new blog button:

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And my favorite:
"Old-fashioned Movies"
   Here I list the movies I've seen and can recommend that are from books by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charlotte Bronte; and then various other movies I like & recommend.
   Each DVD picture is a link to a trailer - unless I couldn't find a trailer, in which case it goes to some other information about the movie. If I've done a review about the movie, I have a link to that as well.
  
Please let me know if you happen to see any mistakes.