#Dorrit Black

[yasantiekspresi]

Black Swan

Within the vast waters I look upon,

I soon become engulfed with what I dwelled upon.

A mere glum reflection of I, a black swan,

Doleful as a creature like I could be; shamed upon.

As rivers of my eyes shaken the one I look down on;

The wretched reflection shatters like I, a black swan.

Black Swans, Dorrit Black, 1937 Poem By, yasantiekspresi

[oldsardens]

Dorrit Black - Farmhouse

[majormisunderstanding]

Bush Windmill, c1930, coloured linocut by Dorrit Black.

Art Gallery of South Australia.

[pintoras]

Dorrit Black (Australian, 1891-1951): Portrait of Rawi Bhavilai (c. 1950) (via Bonhams)

[cupofmeat]

"Black boys", Dorrit Black, post 1938. Linocut, printed in colour from six blocks on thin ivory laid tissue.

[abwwia]

Dorrit Black | Dorothea Foster Black (23 December 1891 – 13 September 1951) was an Australian painter and printmaker of the Modernist school, known for being a pioneer of Modernism in Australia. In 1951, at the age of fifty-nine, Black was killed in a car crash. Via W

The Bridge - Dorrit Black (1930)

[notnursenightingale]

Take all you can get, and keep back all you can’t be forced to give up.

|| Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit (Pancks)

[simena]

Dorrit Black

[artmialma]

Dorrit Black (1891 – 1951)

c1949

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Theoretically, Dickens wrote Hard Times (1854) and Little Dorrit (1856) before he began his extremely icky affair with an 18 year old actress (who was hired for one of his plays) and which involved his disgusting attempts at blacking his wife's reputation and trying to get her institutionalized. Practically, the episode colors both stories retroactively in an ugly way.

Like, hm, sure, it is just a coincidence that the trouble of Stephen Blackpool's life -Stephen being a cotton-mill worker- has nothing to do with his working conditions, salary, unions, etc, but with being married to an alcoholic, and yearning for her to die so he can marry the other angelic woman. This "condition of England" novel sure dedicates a lot of time to show how the real problem is Yada Yada rich people lack imagination but ACTUALLY the real evil to be defeated here is the drunk wife.

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Happy birthday Annette Crosbie, born 12th February 1934.

Annette was born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, to strict Presbyterian parents who disapproved of her becoming an actress.

Nvertheless, she joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School while still in her teens. Her big break came in 1970 when she was cast as Catherine of Aragon in the BBC television series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, for which she won the 1971 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. In 1973, she starred alongside Vanessa Redgrave in the BBC serial, A Picture of Katherine Mansfield.

Crosbie was born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, to strict Presbyterian parents who disapproved of her becoming an actress. Nevertheless, she joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School while still in her teens. Her big break came in 1970 when she was cast as Catherine of Aragon in the BBC television series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, for which she won the 1971 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. In 1973, she starred alongside Vanessa Redgrave in the BBC serial, A Picture of Katherine Mansfield.

In 1975, Crosbie made a similar impact as Queen Victoria, in the ITV period drama Edward the Seventh, for which she won the 1976 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. She played Cinderella’s fairy godmother in The Slipper and the Rose, which was chosen as the Royal Film Première for 1976. In that film, Crosbie sang the Sherman Brothers’ song, “Suddenly It Happens”. In Ralph Bakshi’s animated movie, The Lord of the Rings, filmed in 1978, Crosbie voiced the character of Galadriel, Lady of the Elves. In 1980, she played the abbess in Hawk the Slayer. In 1986, she appeared as the vicar’s wife in Paradise Postponed.

After appearing in the BBC1 drama Take Me Home, Crosbie’s next major role was as Margaret Meldrew, the long-suffering wife of Victor Meldrewplayed by fellow Scot, Richard Wilson) in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave for which she is best known. She also played Janet, the housekeeper to Dr. Finlay, in the 1993 revival of A.J. Cronin’s popular stories.

Crosbie’s other roles include playing the monkey-lover Ingrid Strange in an episode of Jonathan Creek, Edith Sparshott in An Unsuitable Job for a Woma, and Jessie in the film Calendar Girls. In 2004, Crosbie appeared alongside Sam Kelly in an episode of the third series of Black Books, as the mother of the character Manny Bianco. In the series six and seven of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Old Harry’s Game, she played a recently deceased historian named Edith.

In 2008 she appeared in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit, in 2009, she portrayed Sadie Cairncross in the BBC television series Hope Springs. In 2010 Crosbie appeared in the Doctor Who episode “The Eleventh Hour”. In 2014 Crosbie appeared in the movies What We Did on Our Holiday and Into the Woods. In 2015 she appeared in a BBC adaptation of the novel Cider with Rosie. In 2016 she appeared in the new film version of Dad’s Army .

In recent years, she appeared in season two of Ricky Gervais' black comedy-drama After Life on Netflix. She now resides in Wimbledon and is a campaigner against cruelty for animals.

[vilandel]

Hi Vilandel!

For the writers ask game how about 21, 24 and 2? 💕

Hello Lola, thank you for the ask 💕

21, 24 and 2, let's go!

7 ☘️ … that I liked but had to cut Hm, the only thing that comes close to that in my memories is the original ending to an oneshot I wrote back in 2022. But the actual ending fit better with what I intended to write with this story. I actually ended up preferring the final ending more than what I originally planned.

Without letting go of the blanket, Vanessa turned in Nozels arms and gave him a soft kiss on the lips.

“Ugh, gross.”

“Shut up, Solid!”

“Oh my, the prince and the witch are getting naughty.”

“What do you mean, Zora? They’re just loving with each other.”

Vanessa broke the slowly, so that Nozel could still savour the lingering of her lips on his.

“So, until now, do you like it, handsome?” she whispered, so that he was the only one to hear her.

“Yes.”

Vanessa smiled, before turning around and clap her hands to get everyone’s attention. “Okay, people, he opened all the presents and now it’s time for cake.”

Nozel smiled. He just felt so happy, like he never did for years on his birthday. Honestly, he would love to have something blissful like that again next year. All seven of them together, so casually and genuinely happy.

They started eating the cake and ended up spending the whole day in his room. From Bedroom Birthday, another oneshot I wrote for Nozels birthday, in 2022 this time. This is the ending I ended up preferring.

24 ☘️ … that makes me go "huh... I wrote that?"

This whole chapter, practically a Black Clover mixed with Charles Dickens "Little Dorrit" I need to continue this one day^^'

2 ☘️ … that makes me laugh Oh, I've already talked about "Surprises In The Night", but there's another one.

“Wait, Noelle knows?” Magna screamed. “But… that’s her brother!”

“I am very aware of the obvious family bonds I share with my sister, thank you very much,” Nozel just said, pinching the bridge of his nose in annoyance. He really would have preferred if another Black Bull would find out. That shy girl Grey, for example.

Vanessa laughed at his statement, while kissing his cheek.

“Gross,” Gauche muttered, for which Vanessa throw a pillow at his face. “Geez, Wino, what was that for?”

“I’m very open, but I don’t accept showing affection for my boyfriend being called gross.”

“I would gladly appreciate if you won’t call my girlfriend Wino, Adlai,” Nozel added, looking sternly at Gauche, who gulped. “Vanessa might not care about it, but I won’t tolerate kindly that you call her like that in front of me. I’m not sure that Grey would like your attitude either, even though she likes you a lot.”

“Wait… how do you… Vanessa!”

“What? Nozel knows how much I care about you all, so he asks me how you’re going and I tell him everything, of course. Nothing to worry about.”

“Everything?” Magna asked in fear. From Nothing To Worry About, just Magna and Gauche learning about Nozel and Vanessa by catching them making out.

[mybeingthere]

Dorrit Black (1891 - 1951), Australian

Dorrit Black was born in the Adelaide suburb of Burnside, the daughter of engineer and architect Alfred Barham Black and Jessie Howard Clark, an amateur artist and daughter of John Howard Clark, editor of the South Australian Register. She attended the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts in about 1909, working in watercolours, and attended the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney in 1915, concentrating on working in oils.

In 1927, Black went by herself to London and attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, where she experimented with colour linocut printing while studying under Claude Flight. Black was influenced by Flight to use bold geometrical patterns and harmonious colour schemes. In 1928, she studied at André Lhote's Academy in Paris. Black was influenced by Lhote's "compostional principles of geometric order". In 1929, she briefly worked with Albert Gleizes.

Black was strongly influenced by the Modernist and Cubist art movements she was exposed to in London and Paris. By the time she returned to her home country in late 1929, Black had become an active proponent of the Cubist style, and brought the styles back to Australia with her. Black then held an exhibition at Macquarie Galleries in Sydney in 1930. This was one of six one-woman shows which were to feature her work.

[majormisunderstanding]

The Olive Plantation, 1946 Oil on Canvas, by Dorrit Black.

Art Gallery of South Australia.

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TV Shows Watchlist

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Little Dorrit

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“The debilitated old house in the city, wrapped in its mantle of soot, and leaning heavily on the crutches that had partaken of its decay and worn out with it, never knew a healthy or a cheerful interval, let what would betide. If the sun ever touched it, it was but with a ray, and that was gone in half an hour; if the moonlight ever fell upon it, it was only to put a few patches on its doleful cloak, and make it look more wretched. The stars, to be sure, coldly watched it when the nights and the smoke were clear enough; and all bad weather stood by it with a rare fidelity. You should alike find rain, hail, frost, and thaw lingering in that dismal enclosure when they had vanished from other places; and as to snow, you should see it there for weeks, long after it had changed from yellow to black, slowly weeping away its grimy life. The place had no other adherents. As to street noises, the rumbling of wheels in the lane merely rushed in at the gateway in going past, and rushed out again: making the listening Mistress Affery feel as if she were deaf, and recovered the sense of hearing by instantaneous flashes.” ~ “Little Dorrit" Charles Dickens - 1855