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@perioddramasource: PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK

Day Seven: Free Day ~ Favourite Period Drama Actress - NATALIE DORMER

Selected Filmography:

Casanova - Victoria Donato

The Tudors - Anne Boleyn, Marquess of Pembroke, later, Queen of England

Agatha Christie's Marple - Moira Nicholson

W.E. - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York, later, Queen of England

Rush - Gemma

The Scandalous Lady W - Seymour Worsley, Lady Worsley,

Picnic at the Hanging Rock - Hester Appleyard

The Professor and the Madman - Eliza Merrett

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels - Magda, pictured as one of her aliases Elsa Branson

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Natalie Dormer as Eliza Merrett in The Professor and the Madman (2019)

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The Professor and the Madman: An Intimate Biography of an Extraordinary Undertaking - Netflix Review

The Professor and the Madman: An Intimate Biography of an Extraordinary Undertaking - Netflix Review Mel Gibson and Sean Penn bring us the story of the creation of the Oxford dictionary. #TheProfessorAndTheMadman

Mel Gibson and Sean Penn bring us the story of the creation of the Oxford dictionary. SUMMARY  William Minor (Sean Penn) is a former doctor who murders an innocent man, George Merrett (Shane Noone), while under the delusion that he’s being chased by a man seeking revenge. He is found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to Broadmoor Hospital. Merrett’s wife, Eliza (Natalie Dormer), is…

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If love...

...then love!

~ Eliza Merrett, Natalie Dormer, in The Professor and the Madman

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Natalie Dormer as Eliza Merrett in The Professor and the Madman, 2019.

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'𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗢𝗥 & 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗠𝗔𝗡'⁣ 📽️ 𝗦𝗬𝗡𝗢𝗣𝗦𝗜𝗦 & 😎 𝗡𝗢𝗡-𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪:⁣ ⁣ 📽️: Amidst much scholarly debate, James Murray [Mel Gibson] was tasked in 1857 with compiling the 1st ever Oxford Dictionary, after several previous attempts had failed. Murray 'crowd-sourced' the entries by asking people worldwide to submit words for consideration including annotations.⁣ ⁣ In response, Dr William Chester Minor [Sean Penn], a surgeon & US Civil War Captain now incarcerated for murder at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, submitted over 10K words.⁣ ⁣ 😎: Murray's lack of formal education was of great concern to the Oxford Oversight Committee [OOC], but his understanding of multiple languages & their histories was unique. It wasn't until the 1st A-B volume was published that Murray was formally made a Professor.⁣ ⁣ Suffering from PTSD & intensely paranoid, Minor shot to death an innocent man in front of his kids & wife, Eliza Merrett [Natalie Dormer]. Struggling to support her family after her husband's death, Eliza tried prostitution until eventually accepting Minor's war pension as restitution.⁣ ⁣ A deep affection formed as Minor & Eliza spent time together at the asylum, but he couldn't cope with her forgiveness & brutally castrated himself. Minor later fell into a deep catatonic state after being 'tortured' by the asylum's psychiatrist, Dr. Richard Brayn [Stephen Dillane], to purge him of his mental illness.⁣ ⁣ Despite his own battles with the OOC who had discovered that Murray had credited a 'madman' for his help in compiling the dictionary, Minor's mental state only improved when Murray had him released from the asylum & deported back to the US.⁣ ⁣ 🎭🎭🎭 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘂𝘀 & 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮 𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 🎭🎭🎭 ⁣ Thanks to @transmissionfilms; 'The Professor & The Madman,' rated 𝗠 [mature themes & violence], opened in 🇦🇺 on Feb 20th, 2020. ©️ (at Oxford Dictionary) https://www.instagram.com/p/B84x_dIFmjN/?igshid=16ubx3crl0hn7

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The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

I just finished reading this non-fiction book. It’s about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The editor of the OED is Dr. Murray and he sends out an appeal for people to send in quotations for words found in literature. The whole process takes several decades to complete. Over a million quotations are used throughout the dictionary and many thousands of those were sent in by one man, Dr. Minor. He was a former Civil War army doctor who became mentally ill, was retired from the army, traveled to London, murdered a man, and was sentenced to life in an insane asylum. It’s definitely a very strange and melancholy story. Since he comes from a rather well off family and still received an income from the army, he was able to have two cells to himself at the asylum, one which he turned into a library. He has delusions of being persecuted, likely because he was exposed to the war and was required to brand an Irishman’s face who was being punished for desertion. However, he is still quite a scholarly man and when he happened upon Murray’s appeal for help with the dictionary it seemed to fill him with a purpose. He likely found the appeal from book packages that his victim’s widow, Eliza Merrett, brought to him at Broadmoor asylum. His method was to read a book (from the 16th/17th century), make an alphabetical list of all the interesting words and the page they were on and then go on to the next book. By doing so he was able to amass a lot of references for words and he would write to Dr. Murray asking what letter or word they were working on then he would send his quotations in. The two men worked together in this way for about twenty years. As he grew older though, Dr. Minor continued to suffer from mental illness and at one point he cuts off his own penis. His physical condition continues to deteriorate and eventually he is allowed to go back to the USA where he eventually dies.

This story was really intriguing because I didn’t know that the dictionary definition of words were created based on their use in literature. It really demonstrates the fluidity of language and how words can morph and take on new meanings dependent on contemporary society.

It was also interesting to think how a seemingly random chain of events could conspire to help create something so ubiquitous and commonplace as the dictionary.

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Natalie Dormer as Eliza Merrett in the Official Trailer of 'The Professor and the Madman' (2019)