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Love North and South! It's been a few years since I've read the book or watched the mini series, but I remember them being pretty different (but both good in their own ways). I haven't read anything else by Gaskell, but it seems that, aside from Wives and Daughters, people have mixed thoughts on her novels.
Love the North and South mini series, I don’t think I’ve read the book, I know I read Wives and Daughters but I think that was as far as I got with Gaskell.
Also love the Mary Poppins soundtrack, my toddler is OBSESSED with it atm. As soon as we get in the car “mummy listen mary poppins…PLEASE”. I do agree that the sound of music is a superior movie, but I actually think Mary poppins has quite good insights into the pitfalls many modern parents fall into via the characters of mr and Mrs banks. Mr Banks embodies the successful Edwardian man that some on the right wing seem to want to bring back. He’s the patriarch, but also aloof and disconnected from the lives of his family. He thinks he’s in charge but doesn’t know what’s going on, which is played for laughs, but the deeper point is that he is successful and wealthy but also alone and isolated even within his own home. He’s “got it all” but seemingly can’t enjoy any of it. Mrs Banks is too busy trying to achieve her political aims to notice what is going on under her nose in her own home and with her own children. She wants to be doing Important Things in the world like her husband. It takes Mary Poppins and Bert, both of apparently inconsequential social status, to show Mr and Mrs Banks that their children are actually more important than either votes for women or investment banking. They could’ve edited out half the movie though, the whole uncle Albert section needs to go 😅 Feed the birds has always been my favourite scene too btw.
Soo many good links in this weeks post, but I was just coming here to say we have Sound of
Music and Mary Poppins on loop in our house. Mary Poppins is definitely denser than it seems, and I mean that in a good way lol..The book is fun too and even stranger than the movie.
All of the JMW Turner in this post brought me so much joy. The last one is one of my particular favorites of his and is said to actually be unfinished, which blows my mind!
Love North and South! It's been a few years since I've read the book or watched the mini series, but I remember them being pretty different (but both good in their own ways). I haven't read anything else by Gaskell, but it seems that, aside from Wives and Daughters, people have mixed thoughts on her novels.
Love the North and South mini series, I don’t think I’ve read the book, I know I read Wives and Daughters but I think that was as far as I got with Gaskell.
Also love the Mary Poppins soundtrack, my toddler is OBSESSED with it atm. As soon as we get in the car “mummy listen mary poppins…PLEASE”. I do agree that the sound of music is a superior movie, but I actually think Mary poppins has quite good insights into the pitfalls many modern parents fall into via the characters of mr and Mrs banks. Mr Banks embodies the successful Edwardian man that some on the right wing seem to want to bring back. He’s the patriarch, but also aloof and disconnected from the lives of his family. He thinks he’s in charge but doesn’t know what’s going on, which is played for laughs, but the deeper point is that he is successful and wealthy but also alone and isolated even within his own home. He’s “got it all” but seemingly can’t enjoy any of it. Mrs Banks is too busy trying to achieve her political aims to notice what is going on under her nose in her own home and with her own children. She wants to be doing Important Things in the world like her husband. It takes Mary Poppins and Bert, both of apparently inconsequential social status, to show Mr and Mrs Banks that their children are actually more important than either votes for women or investment banking. They could’ve edited out half the movie though, the whole uncle Albert section needs to go 😅 Feed the birds has always been my favourite scene too btw.
I’d not thought much about this despite watching the movie on repeat as a child- I really like these insights!
My toddler might have watched it a few times over the last month haha…found myself pondering the meaning of Mary Poppins quite unintentionally 😅
Soo many good links in this weeks post, but I was just coming here to say we have Sound of
Music and Mary Poppins on loop in our house. Mary Poppins is definitely denser than it seems, and I mean that in a good way lol..The book is fun too and even stranger than the movie.
All of the JMW Turner in this post brought me so much joy. The last one is one of my particular favorites of his and is said to actually be unfinished, which blows my mind!
JMW Turner, Mariology, and Elizabeth Gaskell?? What a great line-up.
Oh man. I’m gone for a week and now have so much to catch up on…. Not one but two awesome collections!