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24
Nov
2009
Mia Wasikowska in talks to play Jane Eyre

1 day ago by kwilder

Actress Mia Wasikowska, pronounced vash-i-KOV-skə, is in negotiations to star in a film version of Jane Eyre directed by American director Cary Fukunaga. Mia Wasikowska is known for her role in Edward Zwick’s film Defiance, and she portrays Alice in Wonderland in the Tim Burton movie soon to be rele ...

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18
Nov
2009
What is Wild Garden

7 days ago by admin

Most gardeners understand what is meant by a wild garden even though it is really a contradiction in terms. How can a garden, a man-made creation, be truly wild? The main characteristic is that nature is apparently allowed to have the upper hand over the gardener, but in a successful wild garden thi ...

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09
Nov
2009
How to Build a Victorian Gardens

16 days ago by admin

The interiors of Victorian houses were known for their fussiness and crowding detail; so it was with the gardens of the high Victorian period. Labour was cheap and numerous gardeners could be employed, removing worries about whether a garden style might be labour intensive or not. The period was als ...

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08
Nov
2009
Austen-esque

17 days ago by Sandi

When one of my supervising profs in my PhD program handed me a list of works to read, that list included about six pages of single-spaced titles. After I recovered, I hopped on the internet and looked up everything I’d not yet read on Netflix. Anything produced in movie form, I stuck in my queue. Th ...

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20
Oct
2009
Montmorency

36 days ago by davemartin46

Montmorency, Eleanor Updale (Scholastic 2003). Montmorency is the anti hero of a series of adventures by Eleanor Updale which mix action with a strong sense of being firmly set in the Victorian period. Further titles are Montmorency on the Rocks (Scholastic), Montmorency and the Assassins (Scholasti ...

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09
Oct
2009
What Was, Is Now

47 days ago by clarissaljm

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“ There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth” – Charles Dickens Stories set during the Georgian and Victorian period of the English bourgeois where men were known for their strong actions with their words and master of the house, women were just a stepping stone t ...

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05
Oct
2009
Antique English Vellum Parchment Deed, Deeds 1830’s : $89.99

51 days ago by Jason

Click Here for More info on eBay! For sale group of 6 handwritten English PARCHMENT, vellum indenture, deeds dating from 1830’s – 1850’s. George IV, Victorian period. Total of 5 deeds. 2 pages in each deed. Size: about 15″ x 10″. NO RESERVE. ONE MONEY FOR ALL 5 DEEDS. Click here for more info on eBa ...

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30
Sep
2009
Write Your Own Historical Story Competition

56 days ago by davemartin46

Once again the Historical Association is running an historical fiction competition. Get your Year 6, 7, 8 and 9 students to bring the past to life by writing their own historical fiction! They can set their stories in ANY period or place in the past – Ancient Egyptian temple, Roman city, medieval vi ...

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