Is anyone else watching the new Sense and Sensebility atm?

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It is good but quite odd as the casting is strangely similar to the film version, ie they all look and sound very alike.

I take your meaning. Did Georgette realise what she was doing to our impressionable young minds, I wonder?

Get your own thread, you two!

I think she did, Rosa.

sorry Rusty! Must go and lie down - alone make supper.

LOL at Georgette Heyer. The librararian tried to persuade me to read her, but I was too busy with Jean Plaidy.

I always preferred Jean Plaidy too LittleBella. Though I do like Georgette Heyer's crime novels.

I loved Jean Plaidy too, but tried to reread one recently and boy was it turgid. Whereas Georgette is still the perfect companion for a day in bed with a minor illness.

In the same era - I am currently reading The Scarlet Pimpernel - which is turning out to be one of the few books that I prefer the film of (especially the Anthony Andrews/Jane Seymour one) I find the books interesting & the plots quite good but they are very repetitive & there seems to be a lot of padding.

Rosa - I'm liking your euphemism.

LittleBella I think Georgette was recommended to headstrong girls with flashing eyes and fiery tempers.

You should have listened to your librarian.

In 'women's' novels they are often symbolic, don't you think? They mean either Sapphism or freedom or both?

Can't cite a single example, btw, so probably made that up. Still..

Hey OneBatMother - you are a kindred wotsit I reckon I could win Mastermind on works of GH despite turgid Eng. Lit and Crit. degrees (oh the shame - and I am the Woman who named her dds Venetia and Arabella after two favourite GH heroines ( and personally Venetia's Rake was always the one for me ...(swoons off in ladylike manner to finish The Masqueraders under the duvet)

spirit, callmemadam, spirit!

Ohmygiddygoddy What fantastic names. Oh god it's all coming back to me now, am going to have to re-read entire oevre aren't I?

Shocking fact: my dissertation was called "Bound By Desire: a feminist reading of romantic fiction" ha ha!

Can't remember A SINGLE THING about it now, was entirely derivative, earnest and silly simultaneously.

Think I will have to read some historical Georgette Heyer.
So, experts - which one should I start with?

THESE OLD SHADES! indubitably.

OK - will read & report back....

okay, nightynight, off to bed. may have minor illness, but probably too tired.

Was enlightened today by Eng Lit colleague re Willoughby getting a horse between Marianne's thighs and the symbolic cutting a lock of her hair lol!

cutting lock =hymen?

good grief, my dissertation was on the various presentations of time travel in popular media.

I'm thinking I really shouldn't be on this thread any more...

Hurrah, Georgette Heyer Fans! Me too, I love Venetia, and These Old Shades & The Grand Sophy, and what was that one about the war? I used to make do with Jean Plaidy, when all the Heyers were out of the librabry when I was a teenager, sigh, happy days, and I re-read quite a few a couple of years ago when bfing my PFB! Unfortunately, no time to do that with No 2.

no time for anything nice now, wombling, multitasking while watching Austen adaptations..I can scrape DP's corns at the same time, you see.

Dr SueWho! Time Travel can go backwards as well as forwards, surely? You must go anywhere you're needed, I thought.

Do I beat you for silliness of dissertation then?

except multitasking while watching Austen adaptations.

Am inspired to work through my mum's collecton of Georgette Heyer this year, thank you ladies. Just got into regency swoonfests recently via a modern author called Mary Balogh who has extremely fun heroes.
On the subject of sexy hero faces, is it not compulsory to have at least one dimple with which to twinkle below the cheekbones? (Like my DH)

OBM, it's silliness of a different order. I was looking at it as a plot device, comparing the different forms of it in book, film and television, and which methods appealed in which era, and why. I even had a section about Einstein and relativity in there. It was totally poncetastic.

Oy, you sayin' mine wasn't poncetastic? It very much WAS poncetastic!

I see your 'Jules Verne and the Horror of Absence' and I raise you a 'the form of the romance is structurally masochistic!' I give you, in addition, the subversion of the Perverse! It had lots of those made-up crit theory words in! All sorts!

I will find it! I will! And I will post it! And you will say to me, Gosh, Onebatmother, that really is poncetastic.

Oh really. I looked at 'indoctrination and the Arthurian imperialist'. I got the word imperialist in there. which gives me extra points