#the girl was so horribly insipid! and the whole thing so romanticised! XD
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Deeply funny to me that academia is like "the cloying romance of North and South ruins this otherwise fine social novel" and then people be out there like "I read the book after the miniseries and it wasn't romantic at all! The book had nothing of my favorite parts like when Thornton and Henry Lennox were having a manhood measuring contest at the London exhibition!"
#elizabeth gaskell#north and south#I'm suscribed to an old blog post#6 reasons why we need a remake of the BBC North and South (and one reason we don't)#on the other hand I was chatting with a professor (female) who wasn't familiar with the book#but had seen the miniseries#and her main comment was like#the girl was so horribly insipid! and the whole thing so romanticised! XD#it keeps on giving
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