#edith crawley

[kidcataldo]

Thinking how future historians in the downton abbey universe will wonder if the crawleys were actually murderers, bc there’s just an excessive amount of deaths on record to make any of it look innocent

And like an entire subreddit would exist to prove lord grantham was some type of mob boss in the aristocracy, who killed anyone who wronged his family. The descendants of the granthams are constantly in the media trying to disprove these theories, like “no great grandad was just a guy… we think” but they don’t really have any solid evidence to disprove any claims bc the family took those secrets to the their graves

It’s so bad that people wholeheartedly believe he was the one who sunk the titanic and caused World War I

[alienas]

COSTUME APPRECIATION Lady Edith Crawley, Downton Abbey

[theremarkablemrshall]

Because, in the end, you're my sister and one day, only we will remember Sybil... or Mama or Papa or Matthew or Michael or Granny or Carson or any of the others who have peopled our youth... until, at last, our shared memories will mean more than our mutual dislike.

[moonofthechilcotin]

I have a really hard time believing Cora -"I carried a corpse for my daughter" and "I stood up to Violet and Rosamund and orchestrated a recovery mission for Edith / I'm bringing my granddaughter Marigold home" - Crawley actually missed Sybil's wedding.

[northbndtrain]

What was the real reason?

[torchwood-99]

It's funny how in sending that letter, Edith wasn't just getting her own back on Mary, but her parents too.

Had they not happily accepted that Edith was the designated spinster of the family, the one that will inevitably grow old and unloved, the one that they never bother to talk about, except to denigrate her, had they not vindicated Mary in her bullying of Edith with their constant contempt, Edith might have not been so resigned to having to settle for a mediocre sort of life, and therefore not been so willing to risk her family's standing by sending that letter.

What? By exposing Mary's scandal she puts her entire family's social standing at risk, and therefore her own chances of makingg an advantageous match? Oh no, what a disaster! Wait...hasn't it already been agreed that she's never going to find love and get married anyway? Oh well, might as well send that letter then, she hasn't got much to lose anyway? She might lose her family's love and respect? hahaha that's a laugh.

[bonhughbon]

Downton Abbey cast have a day at the races as they film upcoming movie.

The cast of headed down to Ripon Racecourse to film the third movie outing of the hit period drama.

The whole household were seen taking a trip to the horses in the scenes which were captured on an unusually warm day in North Yorkshire.

[such-g00d-luck]

you know it hits hard

[kookyburrowing]

downton abbey is soooo funny to me bc like. they really SHOULD have been at the club. “oh no she’s 24 and died in childbirth—” should’ve been at the club. “oh no im a widow—” get thee to the club. “no one wants to marry me—” THE CLUB.

[eolewyn1010]

"Edith? My most darling girl, what's the matter?"

. . .

Robert, are you fucking kidding me? After "poor old Edith", after "what a dreadful thought that we're stuck with her into our old age", after "she doesn't have as many advantages as [Mary]", after "don't do that with the car-driving; you're probably no good at it", after "don't do that with the writing; they are only hiring you for your name since you have no skills to speak of", after "I don't like that crippled boyfriend of yours", after "I don't like that common-born boyfriend of yours"... Now you're suddenly playing the loving father and emotional support? Where was that when Edith was growing up with an inferiority complex as big as Mary's ego?

[kidcataldo]

If Downton Abbey had a 1980s theme song part 2 (with credits)

[alienas]

COSTUME APPRECIATION Lady Edith Crawley, Downton Abbey

[ebenelephant]

edith crawley is like if a highly competent woman was actually cringefail and kinda annoying. i will defend her until the day i die.

[totallovestrucksimp]

Things that would’ve fixed Edith Crawley after be jilted

A cat

a lesbian situationship

Every Chappell Roan song ever

Getting laid

booze probably

Drive at top speed down a dirt road

comment if u guys have any add on

[clouds-of-wings]

Okay hold on so in the middle of season 5 Edith suddenly mentions that she's actually still writing her column..? That is wild, it hadn't been mentioned for... what, a season..? I had totally thought she'd given up on that!

Edith's entire character arc is reduced to repetitive scenes of her trying to catch a glimpse of her daughter and meanwhile she has a voice in a big, established magazine in London and it just... isn't mentioned..? I assume that now that her fiancé (aka the boss) is dead her column would have been discontinued if it didn't resonate with anyone. Her words, her opinions are clearly of interest to readers, and it just... doesn't get mentioned.

I used to write letters to the editor to a local newspaper as a politically interested and very opinionated teenager and found out that some people will very much let you know if they have opinions on what you write. I got phone calls from grumpy old men who needed to tell me how much they agreed with me on Saturday mornings, once a letter from Attac asking if I wanted to join them, one specific teacher would sometimes ask me about them -- and that was just a local newspaper at a time when print newspapers were already kinda declining in relevance.

So - if she writes this column on a constant level in a publication of some relevance in 1920s London, wouldn't she get rather a lot of letters about it? Wouldn't she get invited into Circles? It's just so weird that she can have something so big going on and her entire arc is somehow still about how she's overlooked, "pathetic", and nothing ever goes well for her. Wouldn't she be something like the quintessential 1920s socialite? Noble, young, unmarried, vocal about progressive opinions? Maybe she's too grieving to take advantage of her opportunities, but they'd still be offered to her I'd think. I wouldn't mind if she chooses not to get involved - it would add depth to her character either way - but I don't get how the entire matter gets treated as irrelevant. She has got to have strong opinions and a good writing style to keep things going for so long. The show does her so dirty smh.

[torchwood-99]

The interesting thing about Edith and Mary is that at a glance Mary seems like the strong, independent women who never relies on anyone and can handle everything herself, but the truth is that everyone lives their life catering to her and whenever something goes wrong she gets hand held and coddled until it's fixed for her, whereas Edith seems the more dependant, less capable of the two, but more often than not when stuff goes wrong for her she's left to deal with it by herself, with minimal support, and the people who fix things for Mary tend to just make things worse for Edith.