Please help me - I promise not to be awkward!

[janeite]

Once again, a need a book-inspired fancy dress costume please.

Any ideas for something easy but a bit quirky?

How easy would Lady Macbeth be for instance?

Any more ideas very gratefully received!

What effect are you trying to achieve? Perhaps then we can make suggestions that you're going to take on board.

ROFL I meant robe of course!

But you're always particular awkward!

What books are your pupils studying this year? Any inspiration there?

I do think you should be Elizabeth Bennett though...

Oh I don't know. Something a bit unusual but that won't involve sewing or shopping ideally.

Lady Macbeth before she puts her nightgown on is a possibility (ie in long mediaeval type thing). Miss Havisham maybe. Nothing too 'obvious' but something that keeps me covered, without looking old and ugly and frumpy.

Mme Bovo?

Surely... if Miss Marple is too old then Miss Haversham is too?

Macbeth / A View From The Bridge / Coraline / Duffy poems / R & J / Of Mice And Men - all the usual suspects.

Miss Havisham has a certain gothic charm that Miss Marple lacks though!

Oh no! I think Miss Marple is very charming, and I have the perfect handbag you could borrow! (tis I, btw y'know of the peaceful mind...)

I am boggling at Lady M before she puts on her nightgown... wot- you mean nekkid?

Now Coraline....?

Oh hello you! Not nekkid - before she changes into her nightgown - after she's taken the daggers back and shouted at him for being a wuss!

Carol Ann Duffy? Go as Elvis's Twin Sister.

Livia, all done up in a belted sheet with a bag of figs and a bottle marked POISON?

Keep em coming - I'm getting lots of ideas now!

Also just thought of:
Persephone
Ariadne

Get some Halloween face paint, dress in black paint on a skull - Yorick!

Thursday Next, from Jasper Fforde.

You could wear normal clothes, although I admit you might stumble over the procurement of a stuffed dodo.

Someone from Riders - just need boots & riding helmet (bit risque?)

The Woman in White - quite easy I would have thought

Mildred Hubble from the Worst Witch.

Winnie the Witch (too young a readership?)

Laura Ingalls from Little House... - pigtails and bonnet (not strictly literature I guess)

Otherwise I kind of favour Miss Havisham for goth-cred.

Rebecca?

If Miss Marple is too old, what about Tuppence?

What about a handmaiden from A Handmaid's Tale - red dress with a white headdress?

Thank you so much for reviving this. I am still no nearer to being sorted and I need it for Monday.

I am thinking maybe Violet Baudelaire, although my class suggested Bellatrix Lestrange!

Any more?

The problem is finding something that pupils in a deprived area with largely book-less families may have heard of.

What about Mrs Coulter from His Dark Materials?

Bellatrix is a good one

I liked the Miss Moneypenny idea earlier as well.

Mrs Coulter too beautiful for me I think - although would love to. Tbh I think hardly any of them would know it anyway.

Am quite taken by Miss Moneypenny I must admit but since I live in pencil skirts it may be too close to my normal stuff.

Get yourself a cheap witch's Halloween outfit and go as the green faced one from Wicked. We've got the book which I think came before the musical!

Could be wrong tho....

Been a witch a couple of times before though. Thanks.

Damn!