amusement abounds

[ismene]

Lady Catherine de Bourgh gives advice

Oh, how deliciously lit-geeky. I really ought to read the rest of the site before I write any letters myself...

Comments

[inlaterdays]

what a great site!

[cyberdependent]

Ha ha ha! Awesome. We just bought the A&E box set of their P&P mini-series, 5 solid hours is about all the Austen I can take. ;-)

However, a new film version is about out... ho-hum, but Keira Knightley as Elizabeth... well, we might just have to see that. There might be heaving...

[ismene]

Eliza Bennet is not a heaving-bosom sort of girl. You want Catherine Morland or possibly Marianne Dashwood for that.

(I think I need a "Shut up, Marianne" icon. At times I really empathize with her, at other times...shut up, Marianne.)

Given those comparison photos you posted of Knightley as Guinevere, I don't think she'll have much to heave unless they're digitally enhancing the whole film.

[cyberdependent]

Corsets and bustiers are totally the "digital enhancement" of the 18th century. They can make anyone heave. In more ways than one!

[ismene]

Yes, but in Austen's period corsets were worn to give good posture instead of reducing the waist or shoving up cleavage. Some people even frowned on the wearing of corsets at all, though the specific passage of which I'm thinking is far too long to type out.

Late Georgian & Regency corsets are peculiar-looking things and don't bear much resemblance in shape to corsets either earlier or later.

[anti_alias]

I can't find your new number anywhere. I kept hoping I'd somehow run into you, but alas, no luck. Please call me, I miss you!