#Lucy gaskell

[nerds-yearbook]

One moment Kathy Nightingale was in the year 2007 with her friend Sally Sparrow investigating a creepy house and the next thing she knew she was in Hull in 1920. When she finally came to terms with being trapped in time, she fell in love and started a whole new life. She did make sure a message was handed down through time by her relatives so she could let Sally know what happened. ("Blink", Doctor Who, TV, Event)

[sparrowssally]

I’m thinking about writing a Sally Sparrow/Tenth Doctor fanfic, so naturally I went and rewatched “Blink” tonight for the millionth time to get some inspo, and you know what kills me?

All the little details we don’t get. All the little stories that played out without us seeing.

Kathy getting zapped back to 1920’s Hull, directly in front of the cow farmer who will become not only her first friend in the strange new town she now has to call home, but also eventually her husband. When Kathy awakes in the night with her heart pounding and tears streaming down her cheeks, and simply chokes out “the angels…I dreamt about the angels again”, his arms are always there to comfort her. The dreams slowly subside over time as she adjusts to her new life, and soon there are other, more important things to worry about. Some good, like the birth of their children, and some bad, like the war. But Kathy survives and lives a full life, as do her husband and children, and with every picture she continually insists upon taking—one every time they have enough money to afford it—she thinks of her friend Sally Sparrow.

There’s also poor, lovely Billy Shipton, transported back to 1969 London—probably by the same Angel that sent the Doctor and Martha there. He’s just as unmoored as Kathy is, but—as strange as this Doctor guy seems to be—Billy finds himself liking him in a weird way. He makes a point to become Billy’s first friend in 1969, and he and his friend Martha help get Billy not only a place to live, but also a job working in publishing (even though Billy can’t figure out how the Doctor possibly managed to forge those papers that spoke to his “extensive expertise” in the field, or why he is so insistent upon splicing several videos of him talking in jargon into a bunch of completely unrelated DVDs once Billy moves into video production). Martha sets Billy up with a pretty girl named Sally who always comes into the shop where she works, and a few months later, the Doctor attends their wedding. Billy tries to find him afterwards at the reception to say thank you, but he’s already gone, leaving behind only a simple envelope inscribed “for the bride and groom”. It contains a pound note hefty enough to get Billy and his new wife off to a good start in their marriage, and simple card inscribed with a wedding blessing, written in a script and language neither of them can read.

The next time Billy does see the Doctor is many years later, when he’s old and grey, lying bedridden in a nursing home. Billy had never truly believed the Doctor’s claims of being an alien, but when he sees the same skinny, dark-haired young man walking across the room towards him—looking exactly as he had in 1969—he can’t help but cry in the midst of his wonder. The man who calls himself the Doctor is still a mystery, but as he pulls up a chair next to Billy’s bed and takes the latter’s outstretched hand, he’s as kind as he always was. He offers his condolences when Billy tells him of the passing of his wife, and smiles at the photos Billy shows him of his children, carefully dodging Billy’s question of whether or not he ended up having children of his own. But then he grows silent and his gaze grows sad as he looks out the window at the storm clouds brewing in the sky. “I’m sorry, Billy, I’m afraid I didn’t just come here to visit,” he says, and his voice is laced with a guilt and sorrow so deep that it sounds centuries old. “It’s time.” For a second Billy thinks he sounds close to crying for some reason, so he puts his wrinkled hand on the Doctor’s shoulder gently. “It’s okay.” he insists, giving him a soft smile. “This means I’ll finally get to see her again.”

[thematrix-theuniverseofdoctorwho]

Carey Mulligan And Lucy Gaskell As Sally Sparrow And Kathy Nightingale “Doctor Who - Blink”

[didanagy]

NORTH AND SOUTH (2004)

dir. brian percival

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I got two new books today :D

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

“Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.”― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

[lizzy-bonnet]

Having an older sister who absolutely runs your shit for you.

Miss Matty Jenkyns 🤝Aunt Laura Murray

[whenthegoldrays]

ELLY’S PLAYLISTS

k-dramas

My Sweet Mobster

eunha x jihwan 🧸

Cinderella at 2am

yunseo x juwon 🍄

Queen of Tears

hae-in x hyun-woo 🧸

Lovely Runner

sol x sun jae 🧸

Marry My Husband

kang jiwon / jiwon x jihyuk 🧸🪩

jeong su-min / su-min x min-hwan 🧸🪩

Tell Me That You Love Me

moeun x jinwoo 💌

Twinkling Watermelon

eun gyeol x eun yoo 💌🧸

yichan x cheong-ah 💌🧸

on eun yoo 💌🧸🪩

yichan and eun gyeol 🧸

twinklemelon as a whole

my euneun au 💌

Live Up To Your Name

im x yeon kyung 💌

Crash Landing On You

jeong hyeok x se-ri 💌🧸🪩

dan x seung-jun 🧸

The Matchmakers

jung woo x soon deok 🧸

Castaway Diva

seo mok-ha / mok-ha x ki-ho 🍄

Our Beloved Summer

yeon-su x ung 🧸

Familiar Wife

ju-hyeok x wu-jin 💌🧸

Hometown Cha Cha Cha

hye-jin x du-sik

The Wind Blows

do-hun x soo-jin 🧸🍄

Hidden Love (c-drama)

zhizhi x jiaxu 🧸

period dramas

Emma, Jane Austen

frank x jane 💌🧸

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

marianne dashwood / marianne & willoughby / marianne x brandon 🧸🪩

The Blue Castle, Lucy Maud Montgomery

valancy x barney 💌

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

fanny price / fanny x edmund 💌

maria bertram / maria & henry 🧸

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell

molly gibson / cynthia kirkpatrick / cynthia & roger / molly x roger / etc 🍄💌

North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell

margaret hale / margaret x john 🧸

john thornton / my reading playlist 🍄

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

jo march / jo x friedrich 🧸

Poldark (TV)

morwenna x drake 💌🧸

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare

romeo x juliet 🧸🍄

my ocs

seon-hwa x henry (Hardwick House) 🍄

kang eun-joo / han do-yoon (TEYOKEJ) 🍄

other

colt x jody (The Fall Guy) 🍄

twilight x yor (Spy x Family) 🍄

rapunzel / rapunzel x eugene (Tangled) 🪩

anna x william (Notting Hill) 🧸🪩

diana & charles (The Crown) 🧸🪩

margaret & peter (The Crown) 🧸

milo x amanda (Milo Murphy’s Law)

phineas x isabella (Phineas and Ferb) 🧸

candace x jeremy (Phineas and Ferb)

barbie & ken (Barbie, 2023) 🧸

💌 = favorite

🧸 = play in order

🍄 = needs work

🪩 = taylor swift centric

[thatscarletflycatcher]

If I had to cast North and South in 2023...

Look, I am still enamoured of my 1990s choices, but this post asked, and you know that sometimes I love a challenge, but not as much as torturing myself, so, wouldn't miss an opportunity to do both at the same time!

Let's go then:

Isa Briones as Margaret Hale

Margaret is the most described character in the novel. She's said to have large, soft, dark eyes, a big mouth, very dark straight hair, and a proud and defying air. Her figure is full but lithe, and she's also said to be tall.

Matthew Lewis as John Thornton

He's not as extraordinarily tall and bulky as Thornton is supposed to be, but I think he has the big lad energy with the child-like smile and the unremarkable face defined by the lines around the mouth that is so essential to the character from the book.

Hannah Rae as Edith Shaw-Lennox

Keeley Hawes as Mrs Shaw

I just think she deserves more fun mom-aunt roles, that's all. And we love to include Gaskell veterans (Wives and Daughters 1999)

Anthony Howell as Mr Hale

Mr Hale is a very difficult character to cast. He's a tall man, described more as beautiful than handsome, with large, dark, soft eyes like those of his daughter, and a general air of melancholy about him. I also, as I said, love casting Gaskell veterans in Gaskell stories (another Wives and Daughers 1999)

Anna Madeley as Mrs Hale

I thought of Anna Madeley and Keeley Hawes in terms of two women that can look like sisters, and one that can play a softer, more likely to be sick one.

Kaine Applegate as Frederick Hale

Perhaps not the sailoring beauty he should be, but I emphasized an attempt to a likeness between him and Mrs Hale, with the corresponding likeness between Mr Hale and Margaret.

Will Poulter as Henry Lennox

Yes, he does look a bit like 2004!Lennox, but he is about the age and he also has the sort of shrewd, calculating, not devastatingly handsome face the character is supposed to have.

Matthew Beard as captain Lennox

Not much to say here. Someone who could look like the prettier brother of Will Poulter.

Daisy Edgar-Jones as Bessie Higgins

I think this actress has the softness and the haunted look that can make of Bessie an affecting character rather than a Dickensian caricature.

Joseph Mawle as Nicholas Higgins

Look, I love Joseph Mawle, okay? And I think he can play both the desperate sadness and the dry pride.

Caroline O'Neill as Mrs Thornton

I picked her because having someone from Manchester is idea, but I also tried to bridge Fanny's proud beauty with the touch of worried care and sterness Mr Thornton and his mother share.

Lucy Fallon as Fanny Thornton

Jack Davenport as Mr Bell

Wait, wait, listen, it might sound weird and out of place, BUT, if you have seen this man do the sort of British stinging "am I joking or am I not" line delivery you know he can do it. Besides, I love Jack Davenport, and I need more Jack Davenport in period dramas. I said.

[phireads]

^ This! Also Anne Brontë, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Louisa May Alcott

me, placing jane austen, emily brontë, charlotte brontë, and elizabeth gaskell next to each other on my bookshelf: the girlies

[pacific-rimbaud]

Love and Other Historical Accidents is one of the most romantic things I've ever read and I can bring myself to tears just thinking about it honestly. The last chapter confession from both Draco and Hermione just kills me. Thank you so much for sharing it with us ❤️ What are your inspirations for romance writing?

Honestly Jane Austen. I vividly remember watching Sense and Sensibility as a young teenager and wanting that feeling again and again. She's one of the greatest character writers in English, and she communicates something timeless about love and partnership. Who deserves our time? What does it look like to be seen? Cherished? There's a reason she's passionately read 200 years later. E.M. Forster, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, and Tolstoy are also frequent rereads for me.

I don't really read within the romance genre outside of fanfiction. I love reading my friends' novels, and have liked a couple of contemporary and historical romances over the years, but broadly speaking, straight-up romance has never been my deal. I constantly lose my heart to fictional men and the women who love them, though: Howl and Sophie, Jack and Phryne, Kaz and Inej, Lockwood and Lucy, Palamedes and Camilla (brb sobbing into my cappuccino), Westley and Buttercup in both film and novel (though let's be honest, Westley and Inigo...mmf poly triad, maybe?)

I did a lot of imaginative play with Barbies as a kid, and for me, fanfiction feels like lying on the summer lawn of my imagination getting my blorbos and meow meows into Situations and making them kiss. Bonus serotonin for me if there's a tinge of Gabriel Oak or Captain Wentworth or Mr. Knightley. At its best it's shamelessly self-serving and private and absorbing, and it's always kind of wondrous when other people enjoy it.

Thank you for the ask!

[mzannthropy]

Excerpts from L.M. Montgomery's journals that mention Charlotte Bronte.

LMM visited Haworth on her honeymoon (a rare pleasure she got out of that marriage), though she couldn't go inside the Parsonage. However, I have to disagree with her here: "we went to Leeds and next morning motored twenty miles through a very ugly country to Haworth". Don't listen to her, Yorkshire moors are breathtaking! I know bc I've been there too and I have pics to prove! (I mean I've not gone the way from Leeds to Haworth bc I live in Manchester, so that's where I travelled from, but I doubt it's much different; even going on a train from Manchester to Leeds is a pleasant ride). I suppose the moors are an unusual type of a landscape. Also it depends on your own definition of beauty.

Anyway, what I like about these excerpts is that while LMM obviously admired Charlotte a lot, she had no issue with roasting her, and I'm so here for it!

It is customary to regret Charlotte Bronte’s death as premature. I doubt it. I doubt if she would have added to her literary fame had she lived. Resplendent as her genius was it had a narrow range and I think she had reached its limit. She could not have gone on forever writing Jane Eyres and Villettes and there was nothing in her life and experience to fit her for writing anything else.

Ha!

But then this:

There was a marked masochistic strain in Charlotte Bronte—revealing itself mentally not physically. This accounts for “Rochester.” He was exactly the tyrant a woman with such a strain in her would have loved, delighting in the pain he inflicted on her. 

Speaking the truth. LMM had no time for "brooding" heroes. (And yeah, there's Dean Priest, but he's a different case and he was not Emily's true love.)

I have been asking myself “If I had known Charlotte Bronte in life how would we have reacted upon each other? Would I have liked her? Would she have liked me?” I answer “no.” She was absolutely without a sense of humor. I could never find a kindred spirit in a woman without a sense of humor. And for the same reason she would not have approved of me at all. All the same, had she been compelled to live with me for awhile I could have done her whole heaps of good. A few jokes would have leavened the gloom and tragedy of that Haworth parsonage amazingly. Charlotte would have been thirty per cent better for it. But she would have written most scathing things about me to Miss Nussey and Mrs. Gaskell.

I think she gets it.

And this:

People have spoken of Charlotte Bronte’s “creative genius.” Charlotte Bronte had no creative genius.

I love this bc that's totally something I would say. People will be like: "thing/person is sooo amazing" and I'd say, "thing/person is not amazing".

Her genius was one of amazing ability to describe and interpret the people and surroundings she knew. All the people in her books who impress us with such a wonderful sense of reality were drawn from life. She herself is “Jane Eyre” and “Lucy Snowe.” Emily was “Shirley.” “Rochester,” whom she did “create” was unnatural and unreal. “Blanche Ingram” was unreal. “St. John” was unreal. Most of her men are unreal. She knew nothing of men except her father and brother and the Belgian professor of her intense and unhappy love. “Emmanuel” was drawn from him and therefore is one of the few men, if not the only man, in her books who is “real”.

Talk about "burn".

I have argued on my Jane Eyre Heresy sideblog that Rochester, too, is based on Professor Heger. Nothing stopping Charlotte from putting the same dude into more than one book. I actually think Rochester is very real. The way he talks about Bertha is quite typical of douchebags like him talking about their wives/ex-wives/soon-to-be ex-wives/ex-girlfriends. "She a mad bitch" is, like, the most common phrase uttered by men over the course of human history. There is nothing special about Rochester.

Emily Bronte also gets a mention, but Anne does not. I wonder what LMM thought of Anne Bronte, if she had ever read her. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall's romantic hero is named Gilbert!

[golden-songbird]

if the sanders sides were books, which books would they be?

roman:

-“on earth we’re briefly gorgeous” by ocean vuong

-“anne of green gables” and the entire anne series by lucy maude montgomery

logan:

-“the miracle worker” by william gibson

-“a tree grows in brooklyn” by betty smith

virgil:

-the complete poems of emily dickinson

-“the shadow speaker” by nnedi okorafor

patton:

-“little house on the prairie” and the entire little house series really, by laura ingalls wilder

-“dog years” by mark doty

janus:

-“mary barton” by elizabeth gaskell

-“pride and prejudice” by jane austen

remus:

-“pumpkin” by julie murphy

-“the soul of an octopus” by sy montgomery

[borderlinebatshit]

'The drug wrought.' —Charlotte Brontë This economical sentence—there is something affronting or mischievous about its brevity—appears in chapter 38 of Charlotte Brontë’s 1853 novel Villette . The book is less well known and less romantic (or Romantic) than Jane Eyre , but is in many respects the more ambitious novel. It is the story of one Lucy Snowe: a seemingly shy, melancholic young woman who is passed around among relatives and benefactors until she is engaged as a lowly schoolteacher in the Belgian town of Villette, which is transparently Brontë’s stand-in for Brussels. Here Lucy despairs of her vain, lazy female pupils, is bullied by the school’s proprietor Madame Beck, and falls in love—she will not admit it outright to the reader—with the schoolmaster, Paul Emanuel. Lucy is one of the least reliable narrators in nineteenth-century fiction: though she insists on her own timid and naive character, this little nervous subject inexorably asserts herself, and gets her way. .... “The drug wrought.” In the “Cloud” chapter, or elsewhere in Villette , Brontë’s prose is not exactly the digressive equal of De Quincey’s elaborate style. Still, this is an astonishingly simple sentence with which to introduce the extravagant visions of Lucy Snowe. Or is it? Short guttural sentence in which it is hard, saying it aloud or hearing it in your head, not to elongate “wrought,” awkwardly or self-consciously, as if to make up for the fact there seems to be something missing. The drug wrought what ? Nowadays we usually come across “wrought” as a past participle: a gate of wrought iron; an artefact, idea, image, plan, or a sentence perhaps, that has been well (or cunningly) wrought . Hardly ever do we stop to ask what the original verb is, from which “wrought” derives. Is it “wreak”? As in: “to wreak havoc” and “they wrought havoc.” In fact, as the OED tells us, there is some confusion at work here, and “work” is exactly the word that matters. “To work havoc” is a variant, now rare, and gives us the clue: “wrought,” among other things, is the plain past tense of the verb to work , and in more than one sense of making or fashioning. “Wrought” may apply (or has applied, historically) to movement, labour, function, shaping or manipulation. And so Brontë’s modest sentence might mean: the drug worked, or went to work, performed its usual or intended function. The sentence could as easily mean that the drug went to work on , influenced or manipulated, the raw material of Lucy Snowe’s imagination—it worked her as though she were metal to be moulded or beaten, stone or wood to be carved. Brontë might have said instead: “The drug wrought me, or wrought my mind.” Which in turn suggests the sense of making or inventing: “The drug wrought scenes or visions.” The glorious and sinister diorama of Lucy Snowe’s night in the Royal Park: it has all been wrought by opium. Or is it rather, again: the reality worked by opium, heightened or intensified? All of these meanings are present, all of them complementing and contending with each other, inside this tiny, concentrated sentence. To Mrs. Gaskell, Brontë said that before writing the “Cloud” chapter she lay half awake each night, trying to imagine what an overdose of laudanum would feel like, until she woke one morning with the conviction she had got it right. Undrugged, she wrought. Like De Quincey, who had really been there, Brontë describes the realm of the sedative, painkilling drug as if it’s instead both stimulant and hallucinogen. As if, that is, its power is creative, artistic, literary. As if the sentence contains a pun: the drug wrote

Brian Dillon, Suppose a Sentence

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The 'Timeless Classics' series by RBA stands as a commendable collection of 85 literary masterpieces, predominantly drawn from English literature, with notable inclusions such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina from diverse cultural landscapes. This curated anthology transcends geographical boundaries, making its enriching content accessible not only in various European countries under the names of ''Storie Senza Tempo'', ''Romans Eternels'', and ''Novelas Eternas'' but also in South America. RBA's commitment to delivering these cultural gems on a global scale reflects a dedication to fostering a profound appreciation for literature across diverse audiences.

Here are all the titles of the following collection: Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Edith Wharton - The Age Of Innocence

Jane Austen - Emma

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

Charlotte Bronte - The Professor

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 1)

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey

Thomas Hardy - Far from The Madding Crowd

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 1)

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 2)

Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons Alexandre Dumas fils - The Lady of the Camellias

Henry James - Washington Square

Louisa May Alcott - A Garland For Girls

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 1)

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Lady Susan. The Watson. Sanditon

Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbeville

Edith Wharton - The Mother’s Recompense

Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders

Henry James - The Wings of the Dove

Edith Wharton - The Customs of the Country

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

Jane Austen - Juvenilia

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 1)

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 2)

George Sand - Nanon

Henry James - The Ambassadors

Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford

Thomas Hardy - Under The Greenwood Tree

Edith Wharton - Summer

George Sand - Indiana

Henry James - The Bostonians

George Eliot - Silas Marner

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 1)

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 2)

Edith Wharton - The Twilight Sleep

Emily Eden - The Semi-Attached Couple

Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley’s Secret

George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton

Fanny Burney - Evelina

George Sand - Little Fadette

Emily Eden - The Semi-detached House

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley I

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley II

Daniel Defoe - Lady Roxana

Theodor Fontane - Effie Briest

Edith Wharton - The Cliff

Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady of Quality

Louisa May Alcott - Moods

Lucy Maud Montgomery - The Story Girl

Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth

Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South

Matilde Serao - Fantasy

Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes

Emilia Pardo Bazán - Sunstroke

Ann Radcliffe - The Romance Of The Forest

Louisa May Alcott - A Long Fatal

Charlotte Bronte - Villette

Sybil G. Brinton - Old Friends and New Fancies

Edith Wharton - The Bunner

Sisters Virginia Woolf - The Voyage Out

Margaret Oliphant - The Chronicles of Carlingford

Edith Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist

Virginia Woolf - Day and Night

Guy de Maupassant - Our Heart

Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 1)

Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 2)

Elizabeth Gaskell - Half a Lifetime Ago

[con-libros]

Lugares comunes: breve historia victoriana de hermanas

Lugares Comunes - Christina Rossetti

calificación: 3.5  ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Género: relato / clásico

Opinión y chisme: 👇👇👇

Otro librito que ha estado esperando en el fooooondo de todos mis libros pendiente, y que al fin le dí la oportunidad.

Este relato nos cuenta la historia de tres hermanas y como es su dinámica familiar y social en la clase media victoriana cerca al mar, su relación es como de las hermanas comunes pese a tener roles diferente a causa de su trasfondo familiar trágico, y en el momento en que comienza el relato, también vemos como es que va la "situación sentimental" de cada una.

El relato desarrolla a detalle la personalidad de cada personaje, creando asi esa sensación de haber conocido bien a cada uno y todo el entorno social en el que se encuentran, algo increíble ya que la historia es corta.

La autora escribe de una forma muy bonita, con cada capitulo da la sensación de haber leído algo encantador y hasta se le toma cariño a las hermanas (en especial a Lucy 🫶),

el único detalle que le encontré es que el clímax fue algo anticlimático para ese final (me recordó a las tragedias que suele añadir Elizabeth Gaskell a sus historias para que sus protas tengan desarrollo de personaje 🤕),

de todos modos, fue muy agradable leer una combinación breve, tranqui y encantadora, esta bonito para los fans de Jane Austen y Elizabeth Gaskell, es una lecturita transitoria victoriana recomendable 👌🪻.

[mysterymirrors]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Theory Gaskell Coasting Long Sleeve Henley Shirt - Charcoal - M.