"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me."

anne/xxiii/classic lit blog/main @merflk

[lessnearthesun]

“I should be at the club” this “I should be at the club” that. Well for ME, I wish I were out of doors—I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy and free…and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? Why does my blood rush into a hell of a tumult at a few words? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills

[lavienrosas]

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[jadedmoss]

persuasion trailer did not just assassinate anne elliot, but also wentworth, as he’s supposed to be this raging proud sea captain who is spending the whole book shoving his “i’ve moved on” attitude into anne’s face until he is absolutely obliterated and brought to his knees by her persistent kindness and gentleness. HE IS NOT SOME SHY SOFT BOY WHO YEARNS LIKE ANNE HE IS A STUPID MEATHEAD WHO WAS SO PROUD AND BLIND HE HAD TO WRITE A LETTER TO SAY I LOVE U AFTER ALMOST MARRYING ANOTHER GIRL OUT OF SPITE

[odyssius-deactivated20220309]

I’ll try and be what he loves to call me, ‘a little woman’, and not be rough and wild; but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

@fictiondaily mission ii: nostalgic reads -> Little Women by Lousia May Alcott

[reputayswift]

❝ I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills. ❞ 

❝ [My most perfect idea of Heaven’s happiness] was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy. ❞

 WUTHERING HEIGHTS ⚘ EMILY BRONTË

[gghafas]

...most ardently. "

-Mr. Darcy

Pride and prejudice: Jane Austen

@fictiondaily mission ii: nostalgic reads

[arthrurian]

— jane eyre, charlotte brontë

[lucent-knight]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I could easily forgive his pride, had he not mortified mine

[hazelbeewitched]

the premise of the green knight is so fucking wild. dude was literally like "whosoever strikes me, even the teeniest little hit, will win the game - but they have to come back to me in a year and ill return the exact same blow to them" and gawain was like "radical." and chopped his whole fuckin head off

[universemagicreading]

Someone once said that the titles of jane austen’s novels are the name of the problems in the books. For example: in pride and prejudice the biggest problem is the conflict between pride and prejudice. So that makes Emma the biggest problem in Emma and, now that I have started reading the novel, I have never agreed more with something than I agree with this.

[prideandprejudice]

PERSUASION (2007) dir. Andrian Shergold

[papenathys]

south asian elizabeth bennet moodboard

“I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder at your knowing any.”

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[papenathys]

south asian fitzwilliam darcy moodboard

“I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.”

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[thebrightpreciousthings]

books i read in 2021: “the woman in white” by wilkie collins ★★★★☆

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”

[stars-bean]

Much Ado About Nothing (1993) dir. Kenneth Branagh

[ilosttrackofthings]

a to z challenge: Dracula by Bram Stoker

[bbcumbercutey]

Dracula, illustrated by Fernando Fernandez