(In fact, I may continue to do this, because I’d rather make my own lists than follow someone else’s.
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This week’s topic I have decided on myself: top ten novels of the American South. Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by a blog called The Broke and the Bookish (yep, and…yep.) They’re cool. No Heathcliffs or Rochesters on this list! At least I appear to have a defined fictional type: clever, funny, sincere (despite the ability to wield irony), and (mostly) wealthy. Encounter him in your twenties and you won’t be impressed encounter him for the first time as a fourteen-year-old and you will be smitten. Angel Clare, from Tess of the D’Urbervilles. He’d get along well with Hotspur, I feel.ġ0. For his insouciance, and for his insane natural talent. Jonathan Strange, from Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Look, I’m sorry about this, but you know it’s true: inexplicable malevolence is hot. But he’s a good, sweet, simple man, and he loves sweet, simple Lena, and sometimes that’s all you need to know about someone.Ĩ. She’s also, obviously, incredibly sexy.ħ. Her first marriage (to a wealthy old European who then dies) sets her up for life, and she refuses to take advantage of the decrepit Duke of Omnium by marrying him before his death, so she’s got a moral compass. One of the few women in this series who manages to make her own way in the world.
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Madame Goesler, from the Palliser series by Anthony Trollope. Gotta have an emotionally compromised Southern boy on this list.Ħ. Sure, he’s a mean alcoholic, but I bet he’d be great in bed. Jason Compson, from The Sound and the Fury. (Lookin’ at you, Poldark.) Also, Levin proposes to his wife by way of the nineteenth-century Russian version of Scrabble, which is pretty much the best thing anyone’s ever done.ĥ.
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There’s just something about a guy who knows how to scythe, I’m sorry. Another Shakespearean! I love Hotspur’s banter with Lady Percy, his general liveliness, the fact that he obviously adores her and yet also has a certain amount of drive and initiative… Shame he dies, in the end.Ĥ. Hotspur (Harry Percy), from Henry IV pt 1. (Nb: no actor has ever successfully portrayed this character. Also married to Harriet Vane, so two for one, really. Urbane, witty, and owner of a landed estate.
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Lord Peter Wimsey, of the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries. He’s by far the bravest, funniest, most in-touch-with-his-feelings man Shakespeare ever wrote. This is sort of weird because my little brother just played Benedick (to rave reviews, might I add), but come on. This week’s topic is courtesy of a text conversation with Glinda: top ten fictional characters I have definitely fancied.ġ. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.