#roger hamley

[twinklingwatermellon]

the thing about Thornton vs. Roger is that John Thornton would be your debate class rival that you’d enjoy intellectually sparring with and not being sure for several weeks whether he considers you a friend or not, and Roger Hamley is your lab partner that you click with almost right away and with whom you trade notes and snacks during breaks, and which one is “better” as a literary crush entirely depends on which of those things you’d be more into

[nastassyafilippovna]

i think becky shouldve tried harder with dobbin he could have been another male sub chained up in her basement like many before him but sadly he was too busy falling in love with minors. i dont like him by the way. youll never make me like a guy thats meant to be sweet and kind but is only acting nice bc the girl he likes is an easy target

[fictionadventurer]

Hi! I’d love some recs from your favorite obscure books! Do you have any you think would suit me? 😊

Sticking with the Gaskell vibe, here are some books within that genre of domestic classics.

-A Bachelor's Comedy by J.E. Buckrose is an episodic comedy involving lots of silly little events and characters in an English country village, a bit like Cranford without the deaths (and from the point-of-view of a newly-ordained clergyman on his first assignment).

-If I can get one other person to read Una Silberrad, I will die happy. Like Gaskell, she excels with layered characters, and includes some deeper themes beneath her romance plots. Desire has a recently-released ebook edition on hoopla, and has her deepest themes and characters (including my favorite love interest, an introverted and kind novelist turned pottery-business-owner who has some Roger Hamley vibes). The Good Comrade is her best-known work (the only one on Gutenberg), about a penniless upper-class girl who goes to work in the Netherlands and gets up to money-making shenanigans--a lighter and brighter story. Curayl is only available as a Google Books pdf, and there's a lot that I don't like about it, but the stuff I do like I love, so I need someone else to read this book.

-Helen by Maria Edgeworth was a direct inspiration for Wives and Daughters. Edgeworth is much more upper-class and conservative than Gaskell, and much less adept at weaving in messages naturally, but the characters are fun, and it's fascinating to see a different take on this plotline.

-Beau Brown by Nina Clare is a Regency romance, but it's more concerned about historical accuracy than most books in this genre are. The way the servants are treated as actual people feels very Gaskell.

I'll throw in an extra book with a kdrama vibe.

-I don't remember much about Lady of Dreams by W.R. Gingell, but it was meant to be a fantasy take on kdrama tropes, so it might be worth checking out.

[bethanydelleman]

which austen character is most likely to be a neurologist? and which one is least likely?

also mr wickham fits neither category because he does make an effort towards being a neurologist for like half a semester and then drops out of college

I have no idea. No one in Austen's novels is either a physician or even interested in the natural sciences. "Nursing" doesn't count because what that means is taking care of a sick person at home and it was expected for all women to do that.

Mr. Gibson from Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives & Daughters might be a neurosurgeon or neurologist in the modern day (he's a country surgeon) and Roger Hamley might be neuroscientist, though I suspect he'd be into entomology (study of insects).

[thatscarletflycatcher]

It was several years before I read any Lord Peter Wimsey novels that I watched Wives and Daughters (1999), and Lord Cumnor is a very minor character, so it isn't strange that I wouldn't make the connection then, but boy isn't Ian Carmichael an enchantingly perfect casting for the role.

[nastassyafilippovna]

sorry i thoughtabout mommy hamley and how her husband lovesher and how theyre cute and she is so sick and miserable and all she has is her friend molly who is a teenager but at least she has a friend and its soc ute that mollys friends are old women thats a win for feminism. I LOVE WIVES AND DAIGHTERSSSSSS

[pentomic]

opossum names

lilahc stagnel

impelled “imp” lunar

strengthandcalamity herichs van loan

jerthro macmacalbberson

moose names

big river water-stander

salt eater survivor 3 winters

terror to hunters newprovider

forestman/forestwoman barkmaker

(northern saskatoba planecrash clans)

larch mcckelly

youngwood o’brien

waterman textile jones

zebra names

swiftte strider

newman grasser

local “loc” el-villain

pig names

william snuff

hannah ihi hamley

trottier trottière

john pensman pensman

valeria komsumer

elephant names

halaby gigant

yorick standenstein

alligator names

mud sitter

tail lasher

killedtwohunderddeerinonedamnseasonandanyonewhoquestionshim

octopus names

“neck” rogers

“necks” rogers (note: do not ask what these are nicknames for)

gordon g. gordon

henry t r z macpherson

george hum

newmarket shallowwoter

[thatscarletflycatcher]

"Greta Gerw*g captures so well the Experience of WomanhoodTM" and "we made Flynn Ryder tailored to the type of man women dream about" are the top two things capable of sending me in a rage spiral back to all the bullying I received in my school years for not conforming to bullshit standards of femininity and I think that says so much about me actually.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

*Wakes up in a cold sweat*

Ian Carmichael could have been a great Roger Hamley. Or a great Clark Kent. Somehow they are the same broad type of character.