ROBIN'S NEST

“𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑;” — 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝘩𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑦 Shy daydreamer, wanderer of the moors, reader by candlelight, nostalgic soul, rabbit-hearted, pale hands, rosy cheeks, and teary eyes. Lover of classic literature, fairy tales, old folk stories, abandoned ruins, secret gardens, rainy nights, and lost treasures. I dream for a living. Your friendly banshee. Take me away; take me to Fairyland. 🏹𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑔

[mournfulroses]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

[kathrynhoward]

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

[aquiraxuno]

Sleeping fawn with albinism

[druid-rose]

Edward Burne-Jones, The Prince Entering the Briar Wood, 1895 — details

[indulgeinselfcare]

[thepngpixie]

DRIED FLOWERS pt. 2

[andhetakesandhetakesandhetakes]

https://instagram.com/p/BVlUYtaAMax/

[geopsych]

Early morning in late May at the lake a few years ago with bird song

I miss it but probably won’t get out there for a while, for reasons

[maudeboggins]

Spirits of the Flowers

ceramic tiles from 1880

[oldartss]

Feeding Doves by Charles Chaplin (1825 - 1891)

[frostedmagnolias]

Dragonfly Comb

c. 1905

by Paul Frédéric Fallot

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

[dreamyfilms]

far from the madding crowd (2015, dir. thomas vinterberg)

[maureen2musings]

Bluebell morning

martinpodt

[suburbanscrimshaw]

[seeleybooth]

‘Mr Bennet, I have something to tell you. I’m afraid it’s very provoking news. Would you like to know what it is?’ Mr Bennet lowered his paper and looked over it evenly at his wife. ‘Whatever my wishes in the matter, I am sure you intend to tell me.’ ‘Mary needs spectacles. The oculist says she cannot see without them. There, Mr Bennet!’ She looked about her with the consciousness of having delivered a very significant and troubling piece of information.

It was Elizabeth who spoke first. ‘Surely, Mama, it is good to know what can be done to help Mary. If she needs spectacles, ought she not have them? It must be very hard for her to struggle on without them if she cannot see as well as she should.’

Mrs Bennet uttered a stricken little cry. ‘Really, Lizzy, what can you mean? It is a dreadful misfortune for her! Spectacles are for doddering old men, not for young girls of eighteen! I refuse to believe that she really needs them. No one in my family has ever been so afflicted before. We Gardiners all have perfect sight.’ ‘But, Mama,’ continued Elizabeth, ‘you do so little close work and read so rarely that you may not know whether you need them or not.’

‘How can you say such a thing! No one enjoys a book more than I do. “Read so rarely”, indeed!’ ‘You are forgetting, my dear, that I myself wear glasses,’ added Mr Bennet. ‘I should not like to think of myself as an old man, doddering or otherwise, but I admit I should be quite incapable of study without them.’

‘You are teasing me, Mr Bennet, but you know the truth of what I say. A man may wear spectacles, I suppose, even a young man, especially if he is a lawyer or a clergyman or suchlike, and no one will speak ill of him. For a young woman it is quite a different thing. What do you think people will say when they see Mary in them? Who will want to marry her then?’

Mr Bennet looked thoughtful. ‘Perhaps one of those very men you have just described will offer for her, a wearer of spectacles himself, boldly indifferent to the scorn of all the neighbourhood. Indeed, it may be the very thing that brings them together.’

The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow - Chapter 6, Part One

[dinsintegration]

[mithrandirl]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE + garden, @janeuary-month