The River

great tv recommendations: stag  ↳ "What happens over the next 72 hours will change us as men. We will be defined by our time in these hills, on these heaths. And when we get home, we will say - to people that we trust and without giving away too many details - that we saw off our friend in style. That this was the stag to end all stags!“

List of french films

Here are just a few french films you can watch to improve your language skills:-)

Films : - 120 battements par minutes (2017) - Grave (2016) - Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (2015) - Comment c’est loin (2015) - La tête haute (2015) - L’étudiante et monsieur Henri (2015) - Réparer les vivants (2015) - Respire (2014) - Yves Saint Laurent (2014) - La vie d’Adèle (2013) - Jeune et jolie (2013) - De rouille et d’os (2012) - Intouchables (2011) - L’amour dure trois ans (2011) - Polisse (2011) - Gainsbourg, vie héroïque (2010) - Le premier jour du reste de ta vie (2008) - Je vais bien, ne t’en fais pas (2006) - Jeux d’enfants (2003) - Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001) - La haine (1995) - 37.2 le matin / Betty blue (1986)

Animated movies :  - Ma vie de courgette (2016) - Persepolis (2007) - Princes et princesses (1999) - Kirikou et la sorcière (1998)

if you have any question, feel free to ask me : http://mi2kle.tumblr.com/ask

Rations for various RPG Races

[[ Source. Original creator: wats6831. Additional information and images linked under each one. ]]

Universal:

Homemade artisan herb bread, home grown and dried apples and prunes, uncured beef sausage, munster cheese. Made a small bag from cheesecloth and tied it closed.

Discussion thread here.

Dwarf:

Garlic chicken livers, smoked and peppered cheese, spiced pork sausages, hard tack, dried vegetables, dried wild mushrooms.

Discussion thread here.

Elf:

Top left to right: Evereskan Honey Comb, Elven Travel Bread (Amaretto Liquer Cake with custom swirls), Lurien Spring Cheese (goat cheese with garlic, salt, spices and shallots), Delimbyr Vale Smoked Silverfin (Salmon), Honey Spiced Lichen (Kale Chips), and Silverwood Pine Nuts.

Discussion thread here.

Halfling:

From upper left: “Honeytack” Hard tack honey cakes, beef sausage, pork sausage mini links, mini whole wheat toast, cranberry cheddar cheese mini wedge, mini pickles, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, lower right is my homemade “travel cake” muesli with raisins, golden prunes, honey, eggs and cream.

Discussion thread here.

Half-Orc:

Wrapped in cheesecloth and tied in burlap package. Forest strider drumsticks, molasses sweet wheat bread “black strap”, aged Munster, hard boiled eggs, mixed wild nuts.

Discussion thread here.

Orc:

Orcs aren’t known for their great cuisine. Orcs prefer foods that are readily available (whatever can be had by raiding), and portable with little preparation, though they have a few racial delicacies. Toughs strips of lean meat, bones scavenged from recent kills, and dark coarse bread make up the bulk of common orc rations.Fire roasted rothe femur (marrow is a rare treat) [beef femur], Strips of dried meat (of unknown origin) [homemade goose jerky], foraged nuts, only edible by orcs….nut cracker tusks [brazil nuts], coarse black bread, made with whatever grains can be pillaged [black sesame bread], Pungent peppers [Habanero peppers stuffed with smoked fish and olives].

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Gnome:

Pan fried Delimbyr smelt, spiced goat cheese (paprika crusted hand pressed Fontina), Gnome shortbread (savory pistachio), glass travel jar filled with Secomber Red (wine), hard boiled quail eggs packed in rolled oats (to keep safe), dried figs from Calimshan, and Southwood smoked goat sausage (blood sausage).

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Lizardfolk:

Lizardfolk are known to be omnivores, forage for a surprising variety of foods found within the confines of their marshy environs, in this case the Lizard Marsh near Daggerford. Fresh caught boiled Delimbyr Crayfish on wild chives, coastal carrageen moss entrapping estuary brine shrimp (irish moss, dried brine shrimp), Brackish-Berries (blackberries), Blackened Dart-Frog legs (frog legs) on spring sprouts (clover sprouts), roasted bog bugs on a stick!

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Drow:

From top left: Menzoberranzan black truffle rothe cheese (Black Knight Tilsit), Donigarten Moss Snails (Escargot in shallot butter sauce), Blind cave fish caviar in mushroom caps (Lumpfish caviar), faerzress infused duck egg imported from the surface Realms (Century egg), Black velvet ear fungus (Auricularia Black Fungus Mushroom).

More images here. Discussion thread here.

♡ costumes in the sissi trilogy  –  39/50 ♡

sissi’s floral white dress

Summer of Love 💛

Tunes For The Signs | Sun & Venus

🌞 Aries: Let’s Live For Today - The Grass Roots | Wild Child - The Doors |  The House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals | Help! - The Beatles | Venus - Shocking Blue

🌞 Taurus: Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues | Lay, Lady, Lay - Bob Dylan | Daydream Believer - The Monkees | Happy Together - The Turtles | The Letter - The Box Tops

🌞 Gemini: Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles | My Generation - The Who | I Get Around - The Beach Boys | I’m Alive - The Hollies | Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

🌞 Cancer: Groovin’ - The Young Rascals | Dedicated To The One I Love - The Mamas & The Papas | All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks | Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terell | Penny Lane - The Beatles

🌞 Leo: I’m A Believer - The Monkees | Gimme Some Lovin’ - The Spencer Davis Group | Respect - Aretha Franklin | Can’t Buy Me Love - The Beatles | Be My Baby - The Ronettes 

🌞 Virgo: Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix | Heart Full Of Soul - The Yardbirds | Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks | For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield | Love Is All Around - The Troggs

🌞 Libra: All You Need Is Love - The Beatles | Dream A Little Dream Of Me - The Mamas & The Papas | Somethin’ Stupid - Frank Sinatra & Nancy Sinatra | Something - The Beatles | Do You Believe In Magic - The Lovin’ Spoonful

🌞 Scorpio: Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac | I Can See For Miles - The Who | Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream | I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) – The Electric Prunes | Riders On The Storm - The Doors

🌞 Sagittarius: Tuesday Afternoon - The Moody Blues | Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf | Summer Wine - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood | Light My Fire - The Doors | Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones

🌞 Capricorn: I’m A Man - The Spencer Davis Group | Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones | Strange Brew - Cream | Break On Through (To The Other Side) - The Doors | A Day In The Life - The Beatles

🌞 Aquarius: Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles | People Are Strange - The Doors | Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys | Visions Of Paradise - The Moody Blues | If 6 Was 9 - Jimi Hendrix

🌞 Pisces: San Francisco - Scott McKenzie | California Dreamin’ - The Mamas & The Papas | Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles | Spooky - Classics IV | All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

Listen, I might be playing the devils advocate, but I don't think Dany's fate in the GoT finale was due to D&D being sexist.I think it was just because D&D can't write for crap.

It’s not about intent.

Allow me to begin by saying that I completely understand the knee-jerk reaction that people have to the term ‘sexism’. It’s very polarizing, and when men read the term, they immediately go on the offensive. That’s not what I want at all. I don’t use the term to alienate or exclude men, I use it because it’s the dictionary definition of what I’m trying to convey:

sex·ism (noun): "prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.“

That said, allow me to play devil’s advocate here and say that I do not believe the writers intended to have an underlying sexist message. They are more oblivious than they are malicious. It is born of sheer ignorance (lack of knowledge or information) and the privilege to ignore it because, as males, it doesn’t affect them.

Let’s put aside the dozens of articles that came out after the finale calling out the sexism. You guys know me, I like to pull receipts, cite my sources, and throw in some visuals to help aid my point.

For most of the 70+ hours of Game of Thrones, Daenerys actually does not fall victim to these sexist tropes. Honestly, that is what subverted my expectations for seven seasons. That Dany always teetered on the edge of these tired, overused tropes about women, yet she remained steadfast in her ruthless yet good nature, her moral compass was always aligned even if it didn’t match the viewers, and she was a gods-damned hero, straight through to episode four of season eight.

But the demoralizing reality is that Daenerys was hit with trope after trope in the last three episodes. In the final hours of the show, the writers pulled a bait-and-switch, giving us a ‘shocking’ heel-tern whose only foreshadowing was a very bad retcon job full of double standards. And so many fans, such as yourself, justify it. Not because the show foreshadowed it, but because these tropes are so, so ingrained in our brains from decades of media feeding us these narratives that we now expect them.

In the end, Daenerys succumbs to numerous sexist tropes:

‘God Save Us From the Queen’ trope

“The Good Kingdom: A lovely, wealthy country ruled by a benevolent king, a wise prince, and a fair princess loved by the populace. But what’s that? There’s a queen? Oh, brother, we’re in trouble.”

Disposable Woman trope

“This character has a familial or romantic relationship with a protagonist, which allows creators to derive heart-wrenching sorrow from her death.”

Evil Infertile Woman trope

“Women are often divided into “breeders” and “the barren,” with the latter coming off as cool and distant at best, and malicious and desperate at worst.“

The Double-Standard Trope

“A double standard occurs when members of two or more groups are treated differently regarding the same thing. Gender is one of the most common causes of double standards.”

Hysterical Woman trope

“This trope characterizes women as less rational, disciplined, and emotionally stable than men, and thus more prone to mood swings, irrational overreactions, and mental illness.”

Woman Scorned trope

“What’s the only type of woman more dangerous than a Mama Bear? A woman who’s been dumped or otherwise done wrong by her significant other. Especially if she’s been hiding some sanity problems.”

Women Are Delicate trope

“Even if women have toughness, competence, strength or stability, it’s less than what their male peers are capable of.”

The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask trope

“They don’t want a young woman, or they don’t want any woman, or they just don’t want this particular woman on the throne.”

Tropes in and of themselves are not bad, but very outdated tropes that are associated with the emotional or mental ‘fragility’ of women are. Why? Because they reinforce deep-seated and subconscious stereotypes of women that audiences hold.

“It’s just a show/book! Who cares!”

People have been turning to art (including literature) for years for meaning, for philosophical guidance. Most people in my own country turn to one book to both find and justify their morality (the bible).

“Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it’s the only place where we can keep track of ideas.”―Reza Aslan

It’s not just a show. The art and media we consume helps shape who we are, for better or worse. When men refuse to consider the consequence of their sexist narratives simply because it doesn’t affect their own lives, it inadvertently causes harm for others who don’t share their privilege.

And it’s not just Daenerys. She’s just the figurehead.

There was a great article from BBC about how much women actually speak on Game of Thrones:

I can already hear the counter-argument brewing…

“So what? There are more male characters!”

Yeah. There are. And that’s a problem, too.

Of the top-grossing 1,200 films from 2007 to 2018, 28% of films were led or co-led by women. Meanwhile, around 49.6 percent of the world’s population is female.

By featuring so few women and by giving women who are featured 20% of the airtime to speak their minds, the writers are unintentionally devaluing the speech and opinions of women. This inspires the audience to devalue women in a subconscious way.

Whether or not it intended to, Game of Thrones and its shocking ‘heel-turn’ has very troubling sexist and political implications (amongst other things).

Go ahead, tell me I’m wrong. Tell me I’m blowing this way out of proportion.

Tell me it’s just a show or a book and every single fan knows how to separate fiction from reality (they don’t, go look at Maisie William’s Instagram comments following her season eight sex scene for proof of that). Meanwhile, here in actual reality, we see things like this:

@thescarletgarden1990 informs me that over in Italy, political figures are using Game of Thrones advertising in their campaigns, too:

Translation: “Invaded by masses of Others? Not Today. Immediate naval block, let’s defend our borders.”

What makes it worse is that, at least Donald Trump, identifies with House Stark. Or, those who rule the northerners. The people who showed their blatant racism toward the only two black named characters. And the writers never bothered to critique the problematic behavior, instead, rewarding their people with independence and driving those pesky evil foreigners ’back where they belong’.

I’ve barely had time to scroll my dash and I’ve already seen a troubling amount of harassment towards Dany fans via anon asks (including myself, though I just block the IP and delete but I wish I’d saved them for proof).

Why? Because the ending justifies their personal narrative, this bad writing confirms their worldview. Meanwhile, on the other side of the spectrum, the same thing is happening in reverse in response to the takedown of a figure like Daenerys Targaryen:

“Khaleesi’s heel turn is particularly troubling for fans who might have felt a true sense of connection to her character following her epic story arc, which has seen Dany escape some awful circumstances to literally walk through fire, free the slaves, bring Dragons to the north and help rally the troops to defeat the Night King. She has basically been Abraham Lincoln, Hercules and Winston Churchill combined into one person riding a dragon.” (x)

The point here is that the show is doing its audience of 19,300,000 viewers a great disservice by succumbing to very outdated tropes and double standards, and sending troubling messages as a result. For instance, a woman can do countless heroic or selfless things, but you should never trust her! She needs to be tempered. Women cannot wield power responsibly. There are endless messages you can take away from this ending and the dialogue that led us to the show’s conclusion (my personal favorite being ‘Cocks are important’).

And the fans who want to say 'you’re overreacting’ to everyone who speaks up against it are only aiding in this ongoing legacy of 85% male writers who get to tell our stories, poorly, and reap all the rewards.

Sure, all of this could be solely the result of ‘just bad writing’…

Nevertheless, it is what it is.

Hi! I'd like to see different ballet styles, productions and footage, and was wondering if you had links to some of them! Thank you so much.

French Ballet

Pierre Lacotte Reconstructions

La Sylphide 1972 | 2004

Paquita

Coppelia

Giselle

Rudolf Nureyev

Swan Lake

Sleeping Beauty 2005 |2013

Bayadere

Nutcracker 1989 | 2012

Raymonda

Don Quixote 2002 | 2012 (I, II)

Romeo and Juliet

Cinderella

Bournonville Ballet

La Sylphide: Danish Ballet 

Etudes 1969 (II) | 2005

Flower Festival in Genzano Danish Ballet | POB | Mariinksy | Royal Ballet

Napoli

The Kermesse in Bruges

A Folk Tale

The Bournonville School

Russian Ballet

Marius Petipa revivals (originally premiered/staged at the Paris Opera)

> originally by Jules Perrot

La Esmeralda Mariinksy 1982 - 2012

Giselle Bolshoi: 1956 - 1975 | ABT 1969 - 1977 | La Scala | Mariinsky | ENB

> originally by Arthur Saint-Léon

Coppelia Bolshoi (Burlaka/Ratmansky Reconstruction)

> originally by Joseph Mazilier

Le Corsaire Bolshoi (Burlaka/Ratmansky Reconstruction) | Mariinsky

Marius Petipa

La Bayadere  Mariinksy: 1964 - 1979 - 2014 | Bolshoi (Act III)

Don Quixote Bolshoi (I, II, III, IV) (2011) | Mariinsky | Mikhailovsky | ABT

Swan Lake: Bolshoi 1957 - 1983 - 2015 | Mariinsky 1986 - 2007 | Wiener Staatsoper

Sleeping Beauty Mariinsky 1969 | Bolshoi | ROH

The Nutcracker Mariinsky | Bolshoi

Raymonda Mariinsky | Bolshoi | La Scala (Vikharev Reconstruction)

La Fille du Pharaon (Lacotte Reconstruction)

Soviet Ballets

Romeo and Juliet Mariinsky (Lavrovsky) 1955 - 2013 | Bolshoi (Grigorovich) 1979 -  2013

Cinderella

Flames of Paris

Laurencia

Hamlet

Anyuta

Gayane (Armenia) Bolshoi 1980 | Mariinsky 2014

Shurale

Yuri Grigorovich

The Legend of Love

Spartacus 1970 |1977 | 2008

Ivan the Terrible 1975 | 1977 | 2015

The Stone Flower

English Ballet

Frederick Ashton

Sylvia

La Fille Mal Gardee

Swan Lake

Cinderella

The Dream ROH | ABT

La Valse

Kenneth MacMillan

Manon Danish Ballet | Royal Ballet

Romeo and Juliet

Mayerling

Anastasia

Balanchine - American Ballet

Symphony in C: NYCB | POB 

Jewels: NYCB (Emeralds Diamonds)  | Mariinsky

Stravinsky Violin Concerto

Serenade

Agon

Apollo 1960 |1968 | 1979

Theme and Variations: NYCB

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: NYCB | POB

Vienna Waltzes

Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux NYCB | Royal Ballet

Ballets Russes

Les Sylphides: Bolshoi | ABT | Kirov | Royal Ballet

Scheherezade

L’Apres midi d’une faune

The Firebird: Mariinsky | Bonus

Le Spectre de la Rose: POB

Petroushka: 1976 | 1992 | 2011

Rite of Spring: Joffrey Ballet | Mariinsky

El Sombrero de Tres Picos

Le Train Bleu

Parade

Les Noces: Royal Ballet | Mariinsky

The Prodigal Son

Documentaries

The Romantic Era

Giselle: A Documentary

Diaghilev

Classical Ballet

Agrippina Vaganova: The Great and Terrible

Ballerina: A Documentary in Four Parts

Tout prés des étoiles

The King Who Invented Dance

The Art of Baroque Dance

The Rite of Spring

The Children of Theatre Street

American Masters: Balanchine

Ballet Heroes

Les Enfants de la Danse

Historic Footage

The Art of Russian Ballet (Dudinskaya/Maximova)

Kirov Ballet Gala 1981

First Moscow International Ballet Competition, 1969

Galina Mezentseva

Irina Kolpakova

Ekaterina Maximova/Vladimir Vasiliev

Bolshoi Ballet, 1967

Maya Plisetskaya Dances, 1964

Yvette Chauviré

Anna Pavlova I | II | III | IV | V

Tamara Karsavina I | II | III | IV

Dido Belle and Jane Austen's Fanny Price

With the critical success of the new film Belle, there’s a lot of interest in the life of its heroine, Dido Belle. Many have even hailed the movie as as Austen-esque, with it being centered around a headstrong, 18th century woman who doesn’t quite fit in with her stuffier surroundings. And yet, there is quite a bit of (circumstantial) evidence that suggests that it was Jane Austen who was inspired by Dido’s story for her novel, Mansfield Park.

About a year ago, I wrote a research paper on the historical and literary events that may have influenced Austen’s Mansfield Park. If you’re interested in the subject, here’s some excerpts from that paper, including some of the sources I used:

“Historically speaking, the characters of Fanny Price and the Lord and Lady Betram seem to have been loosely based on the life of Dido Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a British Admiral and African slave, who was sent to live with her uncle in England…

There is evidence to back up the fact that Austen knew about the life of Dido Belle and the Mansfield family. Lord Mansfield was a Lord Chief Justice and a distinguished figure of society, whose “public image…[was] of a brilliant judge and a man of impeccable integrity… famous for his silver-tongued oratory” (Adams 1). In 1772, he made a controversial decision in the case of a black man, James Somerset, who was being forced to leave England to be sent back the American colonies as a slave. Lord Mansfield ruled in Somerset’s favor, essentially freeing the man from his enslaved state. This case became “widely interpreted to mean that all enslaved people in England must be ‘discharged’… [giving] great momentum to the movement of abolition”(Jones). The circumstances of this case is believed to have partially influenced William Cowper’s poem The Task, a poet whom Austen is known to have read and alluded to in several of her books, including Mansfield Park (Pemberly). Christine Kenyon Jones, in her essay “Ambiguous Cousinship: Mansfield Park and the Mansfield Family,” sees the following lines as evidence of Mansfield’s ruling as being influential in Cowper’s writing: We have no slaves at home—then why abroad? And they themselves, once ferried o’er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country and their shackles fall. (2.37-42) The imagery of the first line compares “slaves at home” to slaves “abroad,” making the case that it is hypocritical to want one’s own immediate surroundings to have the appearance of moral uprightness, while simultaneously profiting from slavery abroad and away from view. One can apply this to Mansfield’s own household, as well as Sir Thomas’ in Mansfield Park: once Sir Thomas returns from his plantation in Antigua that he desires to treat Fanny as an equal instead of as the kind of servant she is used to being treated as; likewise, it was widely speculated at the time that Mansfield’s ruling was partly influenced by the presence of his niece, Dido, who was, after all, the product of his own nephew’s capture of a slave woman and taking sexual advantage of her. That is, his first-hand experience with slavery and its effects may have given him a fuller perspective of the horrors of enslaving human beings.

In addition to the possibility of Austen being influenced by Cowper’s poem and Lord Mansfield’s reputation, she was also acquainted with Lady Elizabeth Finch-Hatton, who was the cousin and childhood companion of Dido Elizabeth Bell. Citing Austen’s letters as evidence, Jones suggests that her association with Lady Elizabeth inspired the “elegant-but-dumb” character of Lady Bertram of Mansfield Park and even Lady Middleton from Sense and Sensibility. In a letter to her sister Cassandra, Austen imparts her meeting of the Hattons in August of 1805: “Fortune was also very civil to me in placing Mr. E. Hatton by me at dinner. I have discovered that Ly. Elizth for a woman of her age & situation, has astonishingly little to say for herself…” (CE, #45). Jones believes that Austen’s remarks suggest that “she was aware of Lady Elizabeth’s ancestry and origins, and was disappointed not to find her a more interesting person or forthcoming I conversation.” In her later letters, however, this disappointment in Lady Elizabeth’s lack of personality becomes amusement for Jane and Cassandra, just as Lady Bertram’s presence in Mansfield Park provides comic relief. In another letter, Austen briefly mentions her with some mocking: “Lady Eliz. Hatton & Anna-maria called here this morng;-Yes, they called,-but I do not think I can say anything more about them. They came & they sat & they went” (CE, #91). Here, Lady Elizabeth’s presence is mute and unremarkable; yet despite her seeming lack of personality, Austen mentions her several times in her letters in much the same way, suggesting that while colorless and dull, she was worth mentioning for this same reason. In Mansfield Park, nearly every mention of Lady Bertram is irrelevant and unrelated to the plot—she is referenced as a side note or afterthought.

Austen often mentions her in terms of her non-presence, as in her unenthusiastic, almost lifeless responses to the events that occur around her. Often, “Lady Bertram [makes] no objection” (89), “[makes] no opposition”(41) or is “perfectly quiescent and contented, and with no objections to make” (264). Austen seems to be consciously making correlations between Lady Elizabeth and Lady Bertram. The luxurious lifestyle of both women contrasts greatly next to their relationship with their less fortunate relatives, Dido and Fanny, and the similarities of their stories do not seem coincidental. It is almost a certainty that Austen knew of Dido Belle’s story, and makes use of it in her creation of the character of Fanny Price.

Dido Belle and Fanny Price have a lot in common. Both begin life with disadvantages. While Fanny is born into a poor, overcrowded household, Dido was born to a slave. Both girls were sent to live with wealthy relatives who could better provide for them. Because of her mixed-race status, Dido’s role at Kenwood was rather unclear, much like Fanny’s presence at Mansfield. When Fanny arrives to Mansfield, she is made to believe herself unequal to her cousins, and is treated like a servant by Mrs. Norris and Lady Bertram. An invitation to live with rich relatives should have been a privilege to appreciate, but as Christine Kenyon Jones points out, Fanny is, at first, made to feel reliant on their benevolence. Jones explains that though Fanny receives “the advantages of comfort, wealth, and education…Fanny was a poor relation whose status at Mansfield was unregulated and totally dependent upon the good-will and affection of those around her.” Dido Belle, while given better treatment than most slaves or even servants, was still considered unequal to her cousin, Lady Elizabeth, who also lived at Kenwood. Thomas Hutchinson, an American who visited Kenwood, made detailed observations of Dido Belle in a 1779 diary entry. At one point, he speculates that Dido is some kind of glorified servant: “And she was called upon by my Lord every minute for this thing and that, and shewed the greatest attention everything he said” (Adams). Jones concludes her argument for the connection between Dido and Fanny: “While neither the novel nor the painting is ‘about’ slavery, both evidently allude to its effects and probe the uncomfortable realities of inequality, power, and obligation concealed beneath the smooth surface of family representation.” Austen’s allusion to Dido’s life adds depth to Mansfield Park beyond its rags-to-riches storyline.”

Works Cited:

Adams, Gene. “Dido Elizabeth Belle: A Girl at Kenwood.” Camden History Review 12 (1988). Web.

 Jones, Christine Kenyon. “Ambiguous Cousinship: Mansfield Park and the Mansfield Family.” Persuasions Online 31.1 (2010). Web.

 Slavery and Justice at Kenwood House. n.d. Web.

(To cite my essay, please refer to MLA handbook and use “Violet Pamplempousse” as the author)

Dita Von Teese in episode 2 of Le Carrosse Noir (The Black Carriage), 2010. A mini series by Christian Louboutin.

Cravat-a-licious! This is a word that exists out there, right? It has to…