pirated French translation of Villette

‘I believe that you were born under my star. Yes, you were born under my star! Tremble! for where that is the case with mortals, the threads of their destinies are difficult to disentangle’

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"You know, I've got the feeling that if I don't watch myself, I shall do something silly." Happy birthday, Oliver Reed! (February 13, 1938)

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Miss Mary Bennet & Mr Tom "Heart eyes" Hayward — The Other Bennet Sister (2026)

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Mr Darcy & his newspaper in The Other Bennet Sister

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wuthering heights covers w/ trees

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Ich möchte

vom Drahtseil herabsehen auf diese Welt

ich möchte

aufs Eis gehn und selbst sehen wie langs mich hält

was geht es dich an was ich riskier?

Ich gehör nur mir

Not my art but my commission

well I’m not familiar with this app and nearly lost my account also my vpn is awful…anyway I’m back

[herheartwasintherightplace]

“I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree; he is more my own.” Villette, last chapter. (42.)

[mrspenmark]

JANE EYRE (1983)

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Genevieve Bujold and Richard Burton as Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII (on the set of Anne of The Thousand Days)

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Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

(1/2)

[hammerbacks]

Timothy Dalton as Edward Fairfax Rochester in Jane Eyre (1983) | Episode 4.

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i don't believe in god, but i believe that you're my savior

just quick sketches

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jane eyre and mr rochester + textposts (pt.1)

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A book blog for moms, with reviews of classic, vintage, historical, YA, and contemporary fiction

What always strikes me in this novel-- one of my favorites!-- is that I'm led into Lucy Snowe's affection for a hero who's unlikely, if not absolutely unlikable.  A plain, short, middle-aged teacher at a school for girls in fictional Villette (Belgium), M. Paul Emanuel rages at his pupils and colleagues; takes everything personally; manipulates; and often shows an astonishing lack of consideration for others, as when he locks Lucy into a roach-infested attic for four hours on a hot summer day so that she can rescue his stage play from imminent disaster.  Not exactly endearing, right?

Oddly enough, wrong.  Under Bronte's influence, somehow I can't help but smile at his childish ego-- just as I find Mr. Rochester impossibly cute when he's being, well, impossible!  Something about the emotional transparency and self-centeredness of these men becomes so appealing once they betray a weakness for the heroine...  Plus, they spar so well with protagonists (like Lucy Snowe and Jane Eyre) who don't take their hot tempers and jealous antics at all seriously!  Lucy laughs at M. Paul before falling in love with him, and indeed-- like Jane-- indulges in a few mind-games of her own at his expense.  To Lucy, M. Paul isn't frightening or abrasive; his haranguing is "piquant" and "better than music."  He stimulates.

In Villette, too, there's the added pleasure of knowing that, unlike Rochester, Paul Emanuel isn't rich, isn't tall and "athletic," and doesn't have the dangerous allure of a repentant sinner.  (On the contrary, he's a pretty serious Catholic.)  In other words, Bronte doesn't have much conventionally "romantic" material to work with here-- yet she irresistibly draws me into her own enchantment with this character, a stand-in for the object of her own (unrequited) infatuation. Falling for M. Paul feels so right because it affirms that one doesn't have to have looks, money, status, or even spot-on social skills in order to inspire an overwhelming passion.   Human?  Flawed?  Occasionally ridiculous?  Guys, you're still candidates for the role of romantic hero, as Heger found-- to his chagrin.

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Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash  

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most of these, i couldn't bear to leave behind

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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)