Poldark: part 1

As you probably have already guessed, I am rewatching and recapping  Poldark. This romantic saga follows Ross Poldark (Robin Ellis) as he loses his fiancée, the well-bred beauty, Elizabeth (Jill Townsend), to his cousin Francis (Clive Francis). Ross ends up marrying his servant, the unlikely-looking Demelza (Angharad Rees), but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Set in late 18th century Cornwall, the plot follows Ross Poldark’s attempts to make his derelict tin mines a success.

PART 1

Ross Poldark, limping and scarred, returns from the American war toCornwall after a daring escape from a French prison camp.

His father is dead and his fortune is long gone. His relatives apart from his cousin Verity are annoyed to find out that he is not dead after all, because that spoils their plans.

What excactly are the faults of Fanny Price?

I recently read an article/essay about the Cranforts in the very interesting blog of ladylavinia here and it inspired me to write my own thought s on Fanny Price (mainly) and the Cranfords.

Sylvestra Le Touzel as Fanny Price

As you probably know Fanny Price is the heroine in Jane Austen’s 1814 novel Mansfield Park and she describes her as “extremely timid and shy, shrinking from notice afraid of everyone and everything”. She is the daughter of a poor retired marine lieutenant with an awful lot of brothers and sisters, who has some rich relatives and she is sent off to live with them. There she is treated like the poor relation she is and her status is almost no better than that of a servant’s.