#walter hartright

[paris-in-space]

The idea for this has been circling around my head since I finished listening to the audiobook.

#the woman in white #the woman in white Wilkie Collins #marian halcombe #Walter hartright #Laura Fairlie #Anne Catherick #Paris’s box of classic lit blorbos

[pop-goes-the-weasel]

Me at 17: Oh no, Walter can no longer be near Laura

Me at 24: Oh no, Walter no longer has a job

#woman in white weekly #woman in white #walter hartright #laura fairlie

[avrelia]

Wow. I want this book badly.

Illustrations for "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins by Victoria Semykina Published by ELI 2016

More illustrations from here:

#woman in white #wilkie collins #victoria semykina #art #illustration #marian halcombe #laura fairlie #anna catherick #walter hartright #count fosco #sir percival glyde #madame fosco #frederick fairlie

[mxcottonsocks]

I hardly know to what forgetfulness of my obligations anxiety and alarm might not have tempted me, but for the quieting influence of my faith in Marian. My absolute reliance on her was the one earthly consideration which helped me to restrain myself, and gave me courage to wait.

The Woman in White, Third Epoch: Part 10

I really like the relationship between Walter and Marian. Their trust in each other and the way they work together is lovely.

#walter hartright #marian halcombe #walter+marian brotp #the woman in white #the woman in white weekly #3rd epoch part 10 #op tag

[thewinegrannie]

Walter Hartright really manifests this meme in today's entry

#the woman in white #the woman in white weekly #walter Hartright #sorry frens i am reading ahead i cannot deal with this weekly format #rip to victorian readers but im different

[red-umbrella-811]

Marion: We could try Mrs. Rubelle…

Walter: NO I want to DISCOVER SIR PERCIVAL’S SECRET for TOTALLY PRACTICAL REASONS that are definitely not revenge

#the woman in white #the woman in white weekly #walter hartright

[aftout]

Doodles jd walter hartright once. Forgets to do it ever again.

#my art #juliette’s draft #the woman in white #walter hartright #gothic lit au

[the-busy-ghost]

Benefits of audiobooks- I can listen to them while I work, and I am forced to hear and consider every word, rather than read at my usual flying pace, which means I don’t miss things as much and get a deeper and more sustained enjoyment from a really good book

Disadvantages of audiobooks- When there are emotional details they aren’t blunted by the fact that my uncontrolled eye is already skimming the next passages and there are some Emotions that are not appropriate for working hours

#The Woman in White #Because Mrs Clements saying 'I made her first short frocks' broke me #And yet if I'd been reading a physical copy of that passage I'd probably have flown through it without remembering that sentence at all #Also the bit where Hartright says that Anne is buried in a place that Mrs Clements would have chosen for her herself #Was very upsetting #AND to top it all off I've just gone back an dlooked up the passage again and there's a sentence about how #Hartright 'is certain that she was not neglected in her last moments' #WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WALTER #Ok so she had medical attention and all the kindness that strangers could give her #But she died in a strange place confused as to why she was there surrounded by people who only wanted to use her #and the one person in the world who loved her not only didn't know where she was but never heard of her death until Walter told her #At least I suppose when he says that he means it as a comfort to Mrs Clements and that's totally fair and valid but still #Honestly I quite enjoyed the book but Anne Catherick deserved so much better than a single line on a tombstone #Maybe I'm just susceptible to statements about people who died without their loved ones near them for personal reasons #And I know it's a very common occurrence and even in the Victorian era when many people died at home it was common then #But poor Anne deserved better #Anyway also proof that audiobooks count as 'real books' #Because even though I don't always count them towards reading challenges I actually find that I pay more attention #and get a lot more out of fiction books at least than if I'd been reading them in a physical copy #Non-fiction is a different matter but I learnt to race through novels at an early age and just eat them up without much mulling over them #And it's hard to control my eye even when I'm trying to savour a book #So audiobooks actually make me read more carefully and sensibly #Perhaps the main disadvantage is I never know how the names of people and places are spelt #Especially if the narrator has an accent #reading log

[dathen]

Okay actual Blorbo Wrapped for 2023 (in attempted chronological order) (focusing on new/particularly more intense than usual blorbos for brevity’s sake)

Professor Aronnax, Conseil, Ned Land, Captain Nemo (20k Leagues under the Sea) (yes I need to name every single one)

Sherlock Holmes

Cassandra Sithe (my TTRPG character)

Victor Frankenstein

Xenk (DnD movie)

Mina Harker

Maruki (Persona 5 Royal)

The Spot (Across the Spiderverse)

Major Hob, Chirp Featherfowl (ACOFAF)

Cui Buqu, Pei Jingzhe (Peerless)

Ballister Boldheart (Nimona movie)

Sissel, Yomiel (Ghost Trick)

Arlo Black, Howard Margrove (Candela Obscura)

Nona, Camilla (The Locked Tomb)

Walter Hartright (The Woman in White)

The Fix, Imelda Pulse (Mentopolis)

Laudna, Fearne, Imogen (Critical Role)

Zulf (Bastion)

Resh’an (Sea of Stars)

Arthur Holmwood

Inspector Lestrade (Granada Holmes)

Rocky, Ryland Grace (Project Hail Mary)

Otto von Chriek (The Truth)

Oscar (Malevolent)

Blorbo-in-laws include Asterion (BG3), Basil Hallward (Dorian Gray), all of Helen’s danmei faves, and Varney the Vampire.

Jesper and Inej from Six of Crows are blorbos-in-process.

#this took way too long for a sillypost #but had me trailing back over reblog sprees and rambling messages to friends #and then i got all caught up in putting them in order #all but the last few are from august or before good lord

[thethirdromana]

I'm going to do some Woman in White predictions. Something I'm really enjoying about this narrative is that I know it's proceeding towards doom of some description, but I have no idea what the shape of the doom will be and who will be especially doomed by it.

So, here's how I think everyone will come out of it. If you've already read this book, please don't tell me if I'm right or wrong - you can just point and laugh at me later on.

Frederick Fairlie: it would be satisfying for Frederick Fairlie to die, in an "I told you I was ill" kind of way. But I think it's vanishingly unlikely to happen. Mr Fairlie will die in his bed at the age of 103, having outlived literally everyone else in this novel.

Count and Madame Fosco: I've bundled the Foscos together because I expect the same outcome for them both - to live, but probably to be forced to flee the country. I hope Pesca will be involved somehow.

Sir Percival Glyde: I would like Sir Percival to be killed in a duel with Walter, or maybe be hit by a runaway train. But I just don't see it happening. I think there will be some kind of comeuppance for Sir Percival, and he will end the novel in prison, or impoverished, or with his reputation damaged beyond repair. But alive.

Laura Glyde: Unfortunately I think Sir Percival making it out alive means that Laura almost certainly won't. Though I also don't think he will directly kill her. Instead I'd predict some kind of indirect involvement, such as Sir Percival having her committed to an asylum, which she runs away from in the dead of night, and is found frozen to death in the morning.

Walter Hartright: Walter is currently in a very convenient position for an off-screen death from being British overseas. But I think he is most likely to make it home and be some manner of instrument of vengeance for whatever becomes of Laura.

Marian Halcombe: I want Marian to live more than any other character, but currently it's looking bleak. That said, I don't think Wilkie Collins would kill off both female main characters, so if Laura dies, Marian lives.

I'm looking forward to finding out just how wrong I'm going to turn out to be.

#woman in white weekly #love to speculate about the ending of a book that was published 164 years ago

[gilgamushroom]

Tagged by @dathen for the Blorbo Wrapped 2023 hehehe

Shiv Roy (Succession)

Jonathan Archivist Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Professor Aronnax, Captain Nemo, Conseil and Ned Land (20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea) (it is so impossible to pick just one with this book)

Raju and Bheem (RRR - once again giving a shoutout to this movie that fucks so severely)

Inej Ghafa (Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom) (I love all the crows so much but if i HAD to choose)

Mina Harker (Dracula) (same logic as above)

Sherlock Holmes (ACD canon)

Ishmael (Moby Dick)

Nimona (Nimona)

Crowley and Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Zheng Yi Sao (Our Flag Means Death)

Walter Hartright (The Woman in White)

Blorbo-in-laws: Griffin (The Invisible Man), Lestat (Interview With the Vampire), Donna Noble (Doctor Who), Data (Star Trek)

Blorbos-in-process: Alice and Sam (The Magnus Protocol), Dream (The Sandman)

Not tagging but if anyone reading this would like to do one I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see it

#this was SO much fun what a year <3

[paris-in-space]

The Woman in White main characters lineup.

Walter, Anne, Marian and Laura.

I listened to the audiobook over the past few weeks, really enjoyed it, and had an idea for a drawing with these characters, so I did these designs for them first.

#the woman in white #the woman in white Wilkie Collins #Walter Hartright #Anne Catherick #Marian Halcombe #Laura Fairlie #Paris’s box of classic lit blorbos

[pop-goes-the-weasel]

The Return of the Cramp

#woman in white weekly #pesca #wilkie collins #walter hartright

[lavinaigrette]

Honestly the moment I decided to stan Walter Hartright.

#the woman in white #the woman in white weekly

[mxcottonsocks]

Things none of the young men in 1860 can do:

sit over their wine

play at whist

pay a lady a compliment

🙄

#what is the world coming to #love this as a characterisation of mr gilmore lol #i'm sure there's a meme that might work for this but i can't find it 😔 #so have yet another text post instead #vincent gilmore #walter hartright #the woman in white weekly #the woman in white #1st epoch part 8 #liveblog #edit: wow that emoji came out huge

[first-enchanter-surana]

15, 38, 86 of the book asks, please :)

Hi, thank you for sending this!

15 - a book rec you really enjoyed

I want to talk about a book a friend once gifted me for my birthday: Vermillion - The Adventures of Lou Merriweather, Psychopomp by Molly Tanzer.

What's the book about: It takes place in an alternate reality in which supernatural beings such as ghosts are real. Lou is a psychopomp, someone who deals with ghosts that refuse to leave the material world. She lives with her mom, a Chinese woman, in San Francisco of the 19th century.

One day, Lou's mom tells Lou about how young Chinese men are vanishing and essentially tasks Lou with finding out what is going on. Lou's research is leading her to a sanatorium called Fountain of Youth, in the Colorado parts of the Rocky Mountains. But it's not all as it seems and especially Dr. Panacea, the owner of the sanatorium is very suspicious...

What I love about it: Everything?? Let's start with the setting: The US of the 19th century mixed with suernatural elements (ghosts, talking bears etc). The plot is very well crafted and always keeps me on my toes whenever I read it. Did I mention it's also pretty queer? Ever since I've first read it, I wished there was a sequel or more books in this world, but it's a standalone.

38 - your favourite series

I've considered a couple different series for this one, but I've decided to recommend The Memoirs of Lady Trent's Memoirs by Marie Brennan.

Basically, take Maggie Smith's character from Downton Abbey (along with the aesthetics of Edwardian/Regency/Victorian England) and put her in a Fantasy series of five books about a young woman who is set on becoming one of her countries foremost expert on the natural history of dragons.

The series follows Isabella's life from her teenage interest in dragons, to her first marriage, to her expedition to the Green Hell, to her voyage on the Basilisk, to the desert of Akhia, and finally to what (or rather, whom) she discovered in the Sanctuary of Wings (a twist so shocking, this book might as well have been an answer to the next question!)

86 - a book with an insane plot twist

Another question that made me consider multiple books. I wanted to make sure it really *is* a really good plot twist. Is it only "insane" if you don't see it coming? But maybe that doesn't really constitute good writing.

It's ultimately come down to a tie: The Woman in White and The Moonstone, both by Wilkie Collins - a 19th century English novelist, so these books take place in that time period.

The Woman in White follows 28 y/o Walter Hartright, an art teacher who finds himself employed by a gentleman named Frederick Fairlie and falls in love with Mr Fairlie's niece, Laura. She looks stunningly similar to a woman Walter met when he was travelling to the Fairlie's house, who dresses all in white and claims to have been unfairly put in an asylum by a baronet named Sir Percival Glyde, who is also engaged to Laura Fairlie.

The Moonstone is the story of Rachel Verinder, a young woman who inherits a precious gem (aka the Moonstone) from her uncle. The uncle is estranged from the family b/c he stole the diamond after the Siege of Seringapatam when he was a soldier in the British East Empire company. On the night following Rachel's 18th birthday, the Moonstone is stolen from her rooms).

So if you love a good detective novel - these books basically inspired the genre!

#lisanja asks #about #personal #books