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Jan. 28th, 2024 05:58 pmToday was a rainy and cold day, so didn't accomplish much. Also wasn't feeling well - gassy with an upset tummy.
Watched a lot of television:
Binged through about five episodes of Invincible on Prime, and watched two adaptations of The Scarlett Pimpernel - one on MAX (the 1934 Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey and Merl Oberon adaptation which is closer to the book of the same name), and rented one for .99 cents on Apple TV (the 1982, Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymore, Ian McKellon and Julian Fellows adaptation - which combines the Pimpernel books with Eldorado novels by the author and is closer to the stage play). In both, Marguerite St. Just is more likable and less self-involved. Actually of the three versions, the 1982 version paints Marguerite in the best light.
What is interesting about Orczy and the Scarlet Pimpernell - is at the time she was writing, [per the timeline provided in the front of the book], few female writers were being published in her genre. Or they were under male pseudonym. Geroge Elliot (is an example). [ETA: 1872]. I saw a historical time line. And she had to do it as a play first[1903]. She wrote mystery short stories - but struggled to find publishers [1901]. Her husband helped her get the play version of the Scarlet Pimpernel published and seen[1903], she'd written the book two years prior [1901 in 5 wks]. And it got published because of the play.[1905] The only other female author mentioned in this timeline is Viriginia Woolfe [ETA: to clarify? That doesn't mean there weren't other female writers at the time, obviously there were because I've read them - but Sarah Juliette Sasson, the academic hired by B&N Classics didn't feel it necessary to comment on them for some reason or other.]
[All of this information was in thePenguin Barnes & Noble Classics reproduction of the novel (copyright 2005), as introductory historical material by Sarah Juliette Sasson, in case you are a stickler for accuracy and think I'm talking out of my ass.]
Note: I've been grouchy of late regarding "nitpicking" mainly because I'm dealing with people at work who have taken nitpicking to insane levels of bureaucratic incompetency.
I also think the weather is beginning to get to me. It's either raining. Or just overcast and cold. I've not seen the sun in days. Or the blue sky. I know it is there.
Slow Horses - now on S3 - it's really good and kind of hard to stop watching.
Watched a lot of television:
Binged through about five episodes of Invincible on Prime, and watched two adaptations of The Scarlett Pimpernel - one on MAX (the 1934 Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey and Merl Oberon adaptation which is closer to the book of the same name), and rented one for .99 cents on Apple TV (the 1982, Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymore, Ian McKellon and Julian Fellows adaptation - which combines the Pimpernel books with Eldorado novels by the author and is closer to the stage play). In both, Marguerite St. Just is more likable and less self-involved. Actually of the three versions, the 1982 version paints Marguerite in the best light.
What is interesting about Orczy and the Scarlet Pimpernell - is at the time she was writing, [per the timeline provided in the front of the book], few female writers were being published in her genre. Or they were under male pseudonym. Geroge Elliot (is an example). [ETA: 1872]. I saw a historical time line. And she had to do it as a play first[1903]. She wrote mystery short stories - but struggled to find publishers [1901]. Her husband helped her get the play version of the Scarlet Pimpernel published and seen[1903], she'd written the book two years prior [1901 in 5 wks]. And it got published because of the play.[1905] The only other female author mentioned in this timeline is Viriginia Woolfe [ETA: to clarify? That doesn't mean there weren't other female writers at the time, obviously there were because I've read them - but Sarah Juliette Sasson, the academic hired by B&N Classics didn't feel it necessary to comment on them for some reason or other.]
[All of this information was in the
Note: I've been grouchy of late regarding "nitpicking" mainly because I'm dealing with people at work who have taken nitpicking to insane levels of bureaucratic incompetency.
I also think the weather is beginning to get to me. It's either raining. Or just overcast and cold. I've not seen the sun in days. Or the blue sky. I know it is there.
Slow Horses - now on S3 - it's really good and kind of hard to stop watching.
