Totally Obsessed Knitter

Where'd the weekend go?

Well mine mostly contained knitting, movies, sneezing, kleenex, Teddy my kleenex box, knitting, cold, trying to suppress a sneeze and ended up paining myself...in church, played the piano for church, did the same thing with the sneezing up on stage, made many faces due to many mistakes, due to cold fingers, due to the lack of a working heater at church. That wasn't fun.

Um. So yeah. Oh and reading. Really loving the Woman in White. I really reminds me a lot of Dracula. For some reason. There is no way that it is connected in anyway (except that what'shisbucket who wrote Dracula could have used some of the WIW characters for inspiration) Also, after watching Little Dorrit...for the whatever time...I've noticed some parallels in some of the characters. So, lemme look.

Oh. this is interesting. My book says that The Woman in White was originally published in Charles Dicken's serial "All the Year Round" from November 1859 to December 1860. I dunno when Little Dorrit was written. I found the parallels in...Miss Holecomb, Laura, Sir Percival, and Count Fosco.

Miss Holecomb, after Laura and her new husband, Sir Percival arrive home from their...6 month travel, so she, Miss H. comes to visit them, because she is going to still live with Laura as her companion. Laura writes on their travels that they have found Sir Percival's good friend, Count Fosco and his wife. Laura doesn't say that she doesn't like them, but this is kind of assumed. When they all arrive, including Count Fosco and his wife, Miss H. sees how icky they are. Mainly the Count, not his wife. And both Miss. H and Laura want both of the Foscos to go.

In Little Dorrit....

Oh, if you aren't really interested in this, don't feel obligated to finish this. I just thought this interesting. And it's always a good thing to post some....relatively interesting facts on one's blog.

Anyway. In Little Dorrit, there are characters who are almost exactly like this situation. Not quite.

Mr. Blandois. (I love the quote, Facebook people would have seen this... "Bland-ois....?" "No, it's Bland-wah. He's French." ~ Little Dorrit. Lool.) Anyway. he's a horrible guy. Murdered his wife, but was let out of jail. Later killed many other people. Anyway. He goes to befriend Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gowan (newly married....on the tour of Europe) as a request of Miss Wade (that nothing to do with that though.) Anyway. Mr. Gowan likes him. Mrs. Gowan (Pet, or Minnie) hates Mr. Blandois. She meets Little Dorrit, or Amy. Amy doesn't like Mr. Blandois. Both of them want him to leave them alone (as he is constantly bugging them) Anyway.

Um. yeah. There are some differences, but I thought on the whole it was pretty...close.

Lemme look up when Little Dorrit was written

Oooh. It was written in 1855-1857. Huh. So Wilkie Collins must have taken the idea ish. That's interesting.

So yeah. Mmmmhm. Um.

I can't wait for the next episode of Return to Cranford. OOH MY GOODNESS. And. For Project Runway to start! I can't wait for this season!