#Ruth Montgomery

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Diane Tessman - The Transformation - with Channeling from Tibus - Inner Light - 1988 (cover art by Carol Ann Rodriguez)

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Otherworldly...Know Thyself... Self Realization...

All apparent individuals are only expressions of one individual…I AM. No one is from this planet. Everyone is from God, or consciousness. Everyone on earth is actually a space being, but no one comes from outer space, we come from inner space… (Aliens Among Us by Ruth Montgomery, 1985…chapter 8. Philosophy From…

[kitcatbookmad]

Spending 3 days in my favourite real/fictional place, I am in love, I am delirious, I am blending in with the house.

Green Gables Heritage Place

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... memory lane ...

Montgomery Clift

On set of "I Confess", Hollywood , 1950

📷 Ruth Orkin

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Emily of New Moon Book Club ~~ First Time Reading

Chapter 3: A Hop out of Kin, Part 2

These are my quite belated opinions on the introductions of the Murrays that I said were coming last night, but life caught up to me!

Uncle Wallace

"he was black and grim and ugly, with frowning bristly brows and a stern, unpitying mouth. He had big pouches under his eyes, and carefully-trimmed black side-whiskers"

Uncle Wallace does not come across as pleasant at all in Emily's description of him. All of his actions are described as 'cold' as well. It is also implied at the end of his introduction that he is not super sharp because he can not think of something to say to Emily, though it could also be due to his surprise.

2. Aunt Eva

"Aunt Eva was sitting huddled up in a shawl...She shook hands with Emily and said nothing."

Aunt Eva is giving us a whole lot of nothing. I guess I give her points for not being awful, but those points are then taken away for doing the bare minimum which can be taken as rude.

3. Uncle Oliver

"He was big and fat and rosy and jolly-looking"

Now, Uncle Oliver is giving us something to work with here. He seems like a fun guy, but Emily, in her anxiety, takes his joke as a slight. Bonus points for him though because he doesn't take offense to her offense. So far, a favorite!

4. Aunt Addie

"She gave Emily's cold hand a nice, gentle squeeze. 'How are you, dear?' she said"

She is giving the most of them all so far, but that could be because she is only a Murray by marriage (I think at least, I could be wrong!). But she seems to understand how children work, especially when they need some kindness. Uncle Oliver + Aunt Addie are so far winning

5. Aunt Ruth

"She knew the cold, gray eyes, the prim, dull brown hair, the short, stout figure, the thin, pinched, merciless mouth."

Oh, I thought Uncle Wallace's introduction was rough...I got to Aunt Ruth's, and it was worse. She not only insults Emily but also her recently deceased father, hope her pride feels better after that low blow. But...because she sounds so horrible I feel an eventual redemption coming at some point. But right now she is in dead last place.

6. Cousin James Murray

Not a super good quote for him, but he seems nice, he will probably become a nice companion for Emily! He is in the positive but I haven't seen enough to get a full opinion. Just remembered that he does stand up for Emily later one so yah for him!

7. Aunt Laura

"It was her eyes that won Emily. They were such round blue, blue eyes. One never quite got over the shock of their blueness. And when she spoke it was in a beautiful, soft voice."

Aunt Laura for the win! She seems so sweet and lovely, and I know she and Emily will get along great, especially after she sneaks the cat in, but I have a feeling our next person will control Aunt Laura and stop her from showing fondness to Emily.

8. Aunt Elizabeth

"Her eyes, though steel-blue, were as cold as Aunt Ruth's and her long thin mouth was compressed severely."

Our foil to Aunt Laura at New Moon is Aunt Elizabeth, who seems more like Aunt Ruth than anybody else. Like I said I feel that she will control Aunt Laura but I also think that eventually she will come to love Emily as well!

Okay those were my thoughts to all the Murray introductions! Better late than never! Tomorrow I will post about both chapters four and five so I get back on track!

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Motion Picture Classic, January 1932.

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[alwayschasingrainbows]

I would love to read about Ruth Dutton's (nee Murray's) childhood and youth... especially, given this situation:

"Ruth Murray," he [Jimmy] said, "do you remember the story that got around forty years ago about you and Fred Blair? Do you?"

Aunt Ruth pushed back her chair. Cousin Jimmy followed her.

"Do you remember that you were caught in a scrape that looked far worse than this? Didn't it?"

Again poor Aunt Ruth pushed back her chair. Again Cousin Jimmy followed.

"Do you remember how mad you were because people wouldn't believe you? But your father believed you—he had confidence in his own flesh and blood. Hadn't he?"

Aunt Ruth had reached the wall by this time and had to surrender at discretion.

"I—I—remember well enough," she said shortly.

Her cheeks were a curdled red. Emily looked at her interestedly. Was Aunt Ruth trying to blush? Ruth Dutton was, in fact, living over some very miserable months in her long past youth. When she was a girl of eighteen she had been trapped in a very ugly situation. And she had been innocent—absolutely innocent. She had been the helpless victim of a most impish combination of circumstances. Her father had believed her story and her own family had backed her up. But her contemporaries had believed the evidence of known facts for years—perhaps believed it yet, if they ever thought about the matter. Ruth Dutton shivered over the remembrance of her suffering under the lash of scandal."

Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery.

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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

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George Montgomery-Ruth Roman-Rod Cameron "La hija de Belle Starr" (Belle Starr´s daughter) 1948, de Lesley Selander.

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Emily of New Moon

Emily could not understand why Mr. Carpenter would smile amiably and say, “Very good” when Neddy Gray rattled off a speech glibly, without any expression whatever, and then rage at Perry and denounce him as a dunce and a nincompoop, by gad, because he had failed to give just the proper emphasis on a certain word, or had timed his gesture a fraction of a second too soon.

Neither could she understand why he made red pencil corrections all over her compositions and rated her for split infinitives and too lavish adjectives and strode up and down the aisle and hurled objurgations at her because she didn’t know “a good place to stop when she saw it, by gad,” and then told Rhoda Stuart and Nan Lee that their compositions were very pretty and gave them back without so much as a mark on them. Yet, in spite of it all, she liked him more and more as time went on and autumn passed and winter came with its beautiful bare-limbed trees, and soft pearl-grey skies that were slashed with rifts of gold in the afternoons, and cleared to a jewelled pageantry of stars over the wide white hills and valleys around New Moon.

Emily shot up so that winter that Aunt Laura had to let down the tucks in her dresses. Aunt Ruth, who had come for a week’s visit, said she was outgrowing her strength—consumptive children always did.

“I am not consumptive,” Emily said. “The Starrs are tall,” she added, with a touch of subtle malice hardly to be looked for in near-thirteen.

Aunt Ruth, who was sensitive in regard to her dumpiness, sniffed.

“It would be well if that were the only thing in which you resemble them,” she said. “How are you getting on in school?”

“Very well. I am the smartest scholar in my class,” answered Emily composedly.

“You conceited child!” said Aunt Ruth.

“I’m not conceited.” Emily looked scornful indignation. “Mr. Carpenter said it and he doesn’t flatter. Besides, I can’t help seeing it myself.”

“Well, it is to be hoped you have some brains, because you haven’t much in the way of looks,” said Aunt Ruth. “You’ve no complexion to speak of—and that inky hair around your white face is startling. I see you’re going to be a plain girl.”

“You wouldn’t say that to a grown-up person’s face,” said Emily with a deliberate gravity which always exasperated Aunt Ruth because she could not understand it in a child. “I don’t think it would hurt you to be as polite to me as you are to other people.”

“I’m telling you your faults so you may correct them,” said Aunt Ruth frigidly.

“It isn’t my fault that my face is pale and my hair black,” protested Emily. “I can’t correct that.”

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Ruth Montgomery - Here and Hereafter - Fawcett - 1968

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The heiress, 1949

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We have our schedule for Barricades 2024!  Questions or comments about the schedule? Let us know! You can get in touch with us at this blog, or at our website!

Friday July 12

Track 1:

Welcome Session

The Cats of Les Miserables- Melannen

GOH Christina Soontornvat

The Yellow Passport-David Montgomery

Early Transformative Works- Psalm

Brick Readers Meetup

“Atonement”: A Theatrical Piece for 1 actor, based on Segments from Hugo’s Les Miserables.” - Alexiel de Ravenswood

Track 2

Fan Creators Meetup

Black and Pink National

Beat by Beat: A Les Mis 2012 Deconstruction-Eli

History Researchers Meetup

Saturday July 13

Track 1

GOH Jean Baptiste Hugo

Reflecting on Directing Les Mis-Cait

What Horizon: Tragedies, Time Loops, and the Hopefulness of Les Amis - Percy

Cosette: A Novel — The (Fanmade) Sequel to Les Misérables-Imiserabili

Barricades as a Tactic: How Do They Work?- Lem

Why is there a Roller Coaster in Les Mis?-Mellow

Obscure(-ish) Les Mis Adaptations To Watch-Pure Anon

Recovery: A Fanfic Live Read-Eli, Barri

Preliminary Gaieties-Rare, Percy,Barri

Track 2

The Fallibility of History in Les Misérables: A Look at Hugo’s Narrative Style-Syrup

1848 in Chile-Duncan Riley

Musical Fans Meetup

Fanfic Round Robin

Compared to Some People Grantaire is Doing Just Fine (No, Really)-Ellen Fremedon, Pilfering Apples

SUNDAY July 14

Track 1

Publishing, Podcasting & Promotion-David Mongomery, Alexiel de Ravenswood, Nemo Martin

GOH Luciano Muriel

The Unknown Light Examined-Madeleine

Revolutionary Rants: “Les Misérables” Onstage from an International Perspective-Tessa, Anne, Kaja, Marie, Apollon

Les Mis Letters: Building a Book Club-Mellow,Rachel

Closing Session & Dead Dog

Track 2

Femme/Butch: Dynamics of Gender and Attraction in Les Mis-Eléna

Lee’s Misérables: Jean Valjean, Confederate Hero-Sarah C. Maza

Musical Eponine and Grantaire in Song and Lyric Edits: Personal Research on Their Development- Ruth Kenyon

Paint & Sip-Psalm and Potato

Les Mis Singalong-Megan

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What I can't cope with, OK, is L.M. Montgomery's use of bedrooms as a site of both autonomy and belonging. When Emily arrives at New Moon, she has to share the bed with Aunt Elizabeth and feels she is in bed with a griffon but when she moves into Juliet's old bedroom in the "lookout" she is overcome with the sense of nearness to her mother as well as having true space and freedom for the first time at New Moon. Later, she loses a lot of this sense of place and independence moving into Aunt Ruth's spare room where she doesn't have to share a bed, but can't even choose the pictures hanging on the walls - at the same time she loses her freedom to write fiction. Jane hates her bedroom at 60 Gay Street, finding it "hostile and vindictive" - in many ways just like Grandmother Kennedy, but at Lantern Hill, her father lets her choose everything that goes into her bedroom and she is allowed self expression. Her friends give her gifts to furnish it, as emblems of their love for her. Like Jane, Valancy has no control over the furnishings in her room, from the painted floor to the tacky artwork to the dingy and unwelcoming furniture, but she's so constrained that her only rebellion is to throw the jar of potpourri out the window because she's "sick of the fragrance of dead things". To have a sense of self, she imagines a magnificent castle as an escape and is delighted to find Barney's house is just as good a place to be who she wants to be - free from her family, making her own choices. Anne, upon marking the first anniversary of coming to Green Gables, reflects on the garrett room and finds it "as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine." Before Green Gables her life was probably a mix of dormitories and makeshift beds in attics that she couldn't change, in versions of her life with no freedom or affection. THEIR BEDROOMS ARE SYMBOLS FOR THEIR LIVES OK. When their rooms are controlled by others, their inner/emotional/creative lives are constrained. When they have their own rooms, they have autonomoy, they choose furniture, they have freedom, they have themselves, they have love, they have me gnawing armchairs about it.

Also funny that both Valancy and Emily are tormented at various times by inescapable portraits of queens - I do wonder if LM had one in her home that no one would let her take down.

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