Characters you'd like to emerge from the screen

[Elaine]

Another I'd be happy to receive through the screen would be Fanny Price from Mansfield Park.....



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Sgt S

Billy Piper as Fanny Price, have you read the book Sarge? Fanny was well known for being the worse prig ever. Billy played her differently, a bubbly volitile girl. Just shows, she can act.

[torinfan]

Could you imagine Dirk Bogarde as a teacher, which he had thought of for a very brief time after he was demobbed. Baised again, I wonder how much work would have been done [ especially if it was a girl's school] I certainly would have been swooning at the back of the class for one.

Now that would be hard to imagine - he was very cute not to mention the fact his students would have a hard time concentrating on the class material.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Billy Piper as Fanny Price, have you read the book Sarge? Fanny was well known for being the worse prig ever. Billy played her differently, a bubbly volitile girl. Just shows, she can act.

No not read that one Elaine......I'm in my sci-fi phase at the moment.....
I really should get round to reading more of the classics....
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Sgt S

[Elaine]

Mansfield Park is the one Jane Austin book I would never recommed to anyone Sarge. I love all of her other books, but that one, no. It is beautifully written in the style of the late 19th century, yet it fails to grip me as a reader. Most of the characters are provincial, which isn't a bad thing, but oh so boring. When a really interesting brother and sister come on the scene, they are condemned for being too frivolous. I found them normal. Don't read it, even if you are bored stiff on a train journey and find a left copy on an empty seat.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Mansfield Park is the one Jane Austin book I would never recommed to anyone Sarge. I love all of her other books, but that one, no. It is beautifully written in the style of the late 19th century, yet it fails to grip me as a reader. Most of the characters are provincial, which isn't a bad thing, but oh so boring. When a really interesting brother and sister come on the scene, they are condemned for being too frivolous. I found them normal. Don't read it, even if you are bored stiff on a train journey and find a left copy on an empty seat.

OK Elaine you convinced me.....I'll just stick to watching (and re-watching) that TV adaptation....
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Sgt S

[jaycad]

Mansfield Park is the one Jane Austin book I would never recommed to anyone Sarge. I love all of her other books, but that one, no. It is beautifully written in the style of the late 19th century, yet it fails to grip me as a reader. Most of the characters are provincial, which isn't a bad thing, but oh so boring. When a really interesting brother and sister come on the scene, they are condemned for being too frivolous. I found them normal. Don't read it, even if you are bored stiff on a train journey and find a left copy on an empty seat.

I wouldn't recommend 'Northanger Abbey' either-it's rather silly! I agree that 'Mansfield Park' is rather dull but I'm sure Jane Austen thought exactly that of her own situation in early 19th century Bath!

[Elaine]

I wouldn't recommend 'Northanger Abbey' either-it's rather silly! I agree that 'Mansfield Park' is rather dull but I'm sure Jane Austen thought exactly that of her own situation in early 19th century Bath!

Sorry about the late 19th century, meant to say late 18th century.
Being rather partial to Jane Austin and her world, and being a regular vistor to Bath over the years, I would agree wholeheartedly with you. Living in the very restricted world of a gentlewomen then, with little or no money, must have been awful. It might seem romntic to us now with those lovely clothes, and the delicious Mr Darcy, but life was pretty grim.