Cornishbluepixie

"We carry more luggage than the porters at King's Cross" My secret Downton fangirl life A to Z of Period Drama

[jaeausten]

Turquoise and Gold at The Criterion - Who wore it best?

[ladyofglencairn]

Daniela Denby-Ashe as Margaret Hale in North & South 2014. (for anonymous)

[periodfantasy]

[darcythornton]

Pride and Prejudice 2005 + The Bennets

[galathea-snb]

Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father’s; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.

[plummerchristopher]

Maria and the children convince him to play guitar and sing the tender and poignant “Edelweiss” [Austria’s national flower], accompanied during the second verse by daughter Liesl

[bluepetticoat]

Do you feel less happy if you know you are happy?

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012) dir. Donald Rice

[weloveperioddrama]

Jane Austen’s heroines appreciation post (requested by @felicemi-fa)

[cornishbluepixie2]

One period drama per post: Dad’s Army (2016)

“Mr Brown goes off to town on the 8:21

But he comes home each evening

And he’s ready with his gun.”

[vavaharrison]

She gazed over the sea. This morning had come another letter from Hugh and another poem. Again she had succeeded in slipping the poem away without Ross noticing it.

[ceeyoutea]

[periodfantasy]

[cornishbluepixie2]

One period drama per post: Dickensian (2015)

“Marley dies, and here’s you with your books and your maps and your questions, but girls like me are found dead every day and who cares? I’ve no cause to believe or trust the law.”

[starkzsansa]

You are the air that I breathe. You’re the ground beneath my feet. When did I stop believing?

[shiparker]

“She had already grown into his life. That was what he thought. What he meant was that she had grown into the life of the house, seeing to his needs eagerly but without a fuss, a good servant and an agreeable companion” Ross Poldark, Ross Poldark 

[smilinghalfmoon]

My goal in life was to be less than you. It was not my choice. It was my duty, So that I would not be the cloud in front of the sun.

[shiparker]

Wondrous Wondrous the merge Wondrous the merge of soulmates the surprises of recognition Wondrous the flowerings of renewal Wondrous the wings of the air clapping their happy approval