lady cathy de bourgh

period dramas • uk •

[wardengrill]

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. Oh no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken

[thirteenstorytelling]

— GUGU MBATHA-RAW as Dido Elizabeth Belle in Belle (2013)

[phantom-threaded]

PRIDE & PREJUDICE 2005, dir. Joe Wright

[liviasdrusillas]

"You don’t think I would have preferred to grow up out of the spotlight? Away from court? Away from the scrutiny and visibility. A simpler life. A happier life. As a wife, a mother. An ordinary English countrywoman."

CLAIRE FOY AS ELIZABETH II IN THE CROWN - windsor (1.03)

[joepickett]

Emma 1.03

[ravenclairee]

"The eye — it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will."

THE OTHER BENNET SISTER — 1.04 "Chapter Four"

[snowbairdd]

This spring, I came home heart sore and soul withered. Then I met a gentle stranger whose society revives me. With her, I feel like I could live again in a higher, purer way.

JANE EYRE (2011) dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga

[felicitykings]

THE OTHER BENNET SISTER (2026)

[eddie-redcliffe]

These are quite terrible. I mean, I don't even know what that is.

[lucy-harker]

Jessie Buckley as Agnes Hathaway Hamnet (2025) dir. Chloé Zhao

[green-ajah]

Pride and Prejudice (1995 ) ⤷ Susannah Harker as Jane Bennet

[sulietsexual]

"Love Joan. I always design things for her that are very strong in palette because I feel like her character is very strong. She really commands that whole office. And so I really like using bold tones for that character. And I think her silhouette is about knowing that that looks great on her body and knowing where all of her assets are, which she uses to her advantage." - Janie Bryant, Costume Designer for Mad Men

[ddestroyangels]

Venetian Ladies Listening to the Serenade by Frank Cadogan Cowper, detail, 1909

English, 1877-1958

[agrippinaes]

if you wish to speak to me, as a friend, or to ask my opinion, as a friend, i will hear whatever you like. "as a friend". emma - that, i fear, is a word...tell me, emma, have i no chance of succeeding?

[rogers-carter]

LITTLE WOMEN 2019 | dir. Greta Gerwig

[downtondownstairs]

Downstairs sets

[greengableslover]

Aren't you worried I'm liable to break another slate over your head? I'm more worried I might break one over yours... Carrots.

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1985) dir. Kevin Sullivan 40th ANNIVERSARY | The film aired on CBC Television as a two-part mini-series on 1 and 2 December 1985.