Top 5 Worst Period Drama Endings

We've all watched those period dramas where we've gotten into the story and like a good number of the characters and then the period drama ends and all we can say is "WHAT?!" (Or you didn't like the period drama at all, but you still expected a decent ending). Here is my list of the Top 5 Worst Period Drama Endings (keep in mind that this is my opinion). Of course, there will be spoilers ahead, so read at your own risk.

Review: The Mill on the Floss (1997)

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And now I'm back to reviewing! And for my returning review: The Mill on the Floss. I had seen the 1978 miniseries of it a long time ago, but wasn't very impressed with it. Due to the sad ending, I couldn't really bring my self to like it all that much. I still wanted to see the newer version to see how it would compare, but I didn't have any great expectations for it. But I watched it and I think I did enjoy it at times.

Synopsis
Taken from my review of The Mill on the Floss (1978)
Mill on the Floss follows the story of Maggie and Tom Tulliver, two siblings who live at a mill by a river. When their father, Mr. Tulliver, loses the mill to Mr. Wakem, a lawyer, he suffers a stoke. Mr. Tulliver stays at the mill as Mr. Waken's manager until his death, though he despises working for Mr. Wakem. Meanwhile, Maggie grows fond of Phillip Waken, Mr. Wakem's hunchbacked son.

1910s/Downton Abbey Outfit -- Part 2: The Outer Wear

Continuing from Part 1 of my sewing project, I'll go onto the outer garments of this outfit.

 So, this was the outfit that I was trying to recreate. I wanted to make the hat so badly, but when I attempted it, it didn't turn out well at all. I think I need to practice more millinery in order to make a hat like that...

(On a side note, if I wanted to wear this outfit out and needed a hat, I am able to take my winter hat, fold up the brim at the side, and put some millinery veiling around it to get the same effect.)

1910s/Downton Abbey Outfit -- Part 1: The Undergarments

Remember when I mentioned that I was working on a big sewing project in my March Tag of the Period Drama Challenge? Well, I'm finally posting pictures of it!

So, to take a break from the classes that are going towards my degree (I'm majoring in both Computer Science and Accounting), I decided to take an apparel class: a history of dress class, to be precise. It was a really fun class; I got to learn more about the historical eras I'm interested in, I got to work with conserving a 1910s dress, and I never had so much fun reading a text book before. For my final project (which I presented a couple of weeks ago), I opted to sew a outfit from Downton Abbey (provided that I proved that it was accurate); and since my professor is a fan of Downton Abbey, she was interested in seeing what I came up with.

I'm Back!

Okay, so yesterday was supposed to be my day back, but I had a bit of a busy day yesterday (getting Mother's Day gifts together and what not) so I'm officially back today!

So my finals and final projects went by pretty well and I'm happy to be on summer break and resting. I finished my big sewing project that I was working on for a class (which you all will be seeing two posts about in the upcoming days), and now I'm on the search on what to sew next.

During my absence, I had three lovely bloggers guest posting for me. I would personally like to thank Melody/Miss Marianne from Regency Delight and The P&P95 Forever Club, Analiese from Portrait of a Maiden, and Charity from Austenitis for taking time out of their schedules to guest post for me while I was taking finals. If you all haven't read their guest posts, I recommend that you do so! Here are links to their posts:

English Country Dancing by Melody

Wives and Daughters Review by Analiese

Sense and Sensibility (1995) Spotlight by Charity

Persuasion (2007) Spotlight by Charity

The Best of Elegance of Fashion posts that I put up were also a great success! It brought back some favorite posts that were rediscovered by readers and it was fun to read all the new comments. I think during slow weeks, I may do the Best Of posts since they worked out so well.

There will not be a review this week (I really need to watch something!), but next week I should have a review ready to go!

That's all for now! I'm glad to be back!

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 God Bless,

Guest Post by Charity: Spotlight -- Persuasion (2007)

Hey, y'all! I'm Charity, and I'm back with another movie spotlight! I posted earlier this week about myfirst one, so if you want background information, go check that post out. But for now...another movie spotlight! The movie this time?

Persuasion (2007)

Guest Post by Charity: Spotlight -- Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Hey, everyone! I was delighted when Miss Elizabeth kindly asked me to post on her blog and am delighted to be here today with a Movie Spotlight! I'll add a little bit more about me at the end, but for now, let's just say I post on my blog, Austenitis, with all manner of Austen related things, but major in book and movie reviews. I also do Spotlights -- on my blog, they're on specific movie characters, but when I'm guest-posting? Then I prefer to do it on complete movies. It's just a collection of a bunch of my favorite pictures from a movie I like. Here we go!

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Best Of: Jane Austen and Proposals

 This was my first Reader Question that I answered. It came to me from Melody (who has been so good as to guest post during this week) who asked "Why exactly do you think Jane Austen didn't write proposal scenes in Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Sense and Sensibility?"

From the post: 

So, to answer the question directly, I think that Jane Austen didn't write a proposal scene for either Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility because it simply wasn't necessary (it needed not to be particularly told). In Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility, we as the reader know that Henry Tilney loves Catherine Morland (though she was kicked out of Northanger Abbey by General Tilney) and we know that Edward Ferrars, despite his engagement and supposed marriage to Lucy Steele, loves Elinor Dashwood. So, I think that by the end, we the reader can assume that if Henry Tilney or Edward Ferrars arrived to speak to Catherine or Elinor, that there could only be one reason why: to propose. There isn't a doubt in the mind of the reader that the hero holds a very, very high regard for the heroine, so there is no need to get into a lengthy proposal scene.

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 God Bless,