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occidentaltourist · 3 months
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Before Gentleman Jack: Emma Donoghue on Anne Lister and Eliza Raine
Bestselling author Emma Donoghue introduces Anne Lister (now often known as Gentleman Jack) and Eliza Raine, the real women behind her latest novel, Learned By Heart.
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Who was Eliza Raine, and what was her relationship with Anne?
I wish Anne Lister’s first lover was just as famous as her, but Eliza Raine (1791-1860), shamefully mistreated during her long life, has been ignored ever since she died in obscurity. This fascinating woman – orphan heiress of an English East India Company doctor and his Indian ‘country wife’ – deserves attention not just for her beauty, her importance to Lister and her vivid letters, but for her outsider perspective on Regency England. Banished to the so-called motherland to be ‘Englished’ at six, with a sister she never got on with, Eliza Raine must have witnessed society from a uniquely critical perspective, and so I found it was her untold story that ended up as the centre of Learned by Heart.
Is Gentleman Jack based on a true story?
Yes, the two seasons of Sally Wainwright’s BBC/HBO series Gentleman Jack (2019-22) are not only gripping, big-budget period drama, but they’re based on archival documents. Wainwright somehow managed to craft the dramatic arcs of each episode from the daily minutiae of Lister’s five-million-word secret diary. I can’t think of another example of TV adaptation actually contributing to an archive in a virtuous feedback loop: Wainwright not only used a screenwriting award to fund scans of the massive diary, but the fandom spawned by her show helped inspire hundreds to sign up as Code Breakers (aka Lister Sisters) and do the comma-by-comma work of transcribing it. A smaller group of the Code Breakers also made it possible for me to write Learned by Heart, by transcribing and making sense of about a hundred letters between, by or about Lister and Raine.
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critical-quoter · 19 days
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'I live for you. I love you. I have loved you for years.' His eyes were bright and fierce, flashes of gold playing across them. 'Do you know how hard it has been to fight this? To make you angry, to keep you away? To force you to hate me, so I don't fall to my knees before you and pledge my heart and soul?'
Court of Serpents and Secrets - Eliza Raine
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books-in-a-storm · 2 months
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Paranormal Star Review
Title: The Poseidon Trials #1 Secret of the Broken King
Author: Eliza Raine
Pages:232
Rating:⭐⭐⭐(3/5)
Synopsis:
He married me, exiled me, and now he’s the only thing stopping me from saving my sister.
My sister is turning to stone. She's been asleep for eight years – the same amount of time I’ve been the secret, exiled wife of the King of the Ocean. Poseidon is fierce, unforgiving, and terrifyingly powerful. I’m just a broken sea nymph whose magic never surfaced. But the only way to save my sister lies in his underwater palace, and I’ve got nothing else to lose.
I expected escaping exile and getting to the palace to be tough. What I didn’t anticipate was battling a torrent of unexpected desire for Poseidon when he catches me. The devastatingly beautiful ocean god has secrets. Wild waves crash through his eyes when he looks at me, and I soon realize he might be just as broken as I am.
But when a god has secrets, the consequences are deadly.
First And Last Sentence: Here
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shipatfirstsight · 1 year
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Favorite books of 2022 11/?
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aquila1nz · 6 months
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I'm amused that my mother and I came home with the same book to read.
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sunriseofeternity · 2 years
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WHO IS ELIZA RAINE.
OH MY FUCCKK
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staciass · 2 months
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I’m admitting defeat.
Yeah sorry folks this one crept up on me. Once you notice something, a pattern you can’t unsee it and too much of THAT was going on with our fmc Reyna. She was just too fucking stupid. Like does she even survive to like 20- or however old she is supposed to be she acts like she’s fucking 13 !!!!
Someone say “don’t do this it is dangerous for you” - she doesssss ittttt
Someone says “don’t do it you will die” and so she does it whilst be like YeAh I’m LiKe SoOoO BaDaSs FuCkKkKk EvErYoNe eLsE !!!’ I can’t even.
And you wanna know something else? I’m like 95% done with this book, I’m not even kidding there are like 2 chapters left but I can’t do it. She’s beyond moronic at this point like I just NO !!!
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maepolzine · 6 months
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Looking Back at the Books I Read in August & September 2023
Looking back on all the books I finished during the month of August and September.
Instead of making individual posts for August and September, I decided to combine them because I’ve been really busy with moving for the last two months. Was I actively moving the entire time? No. But I was settling into a temporary living situation and making plans for what I’d need once I moved in. After that, I was putting my belongings back in order. So, while I didn’t get to read as much as…
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sunrise-blvd · 7 months
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i made it to september 😌
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phaedraismyusername · 7 months
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I was tagged by the lovely @metalicats and I haven't done one of these in aaages so why not!
Last song listened to - Wandering Eye by Fat Freddy's Drop
Currently reading - As ever I have four on the go lol. Dark Water Daughter by HM Long, Penance by Eliza Clark, The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams and Sphere by Michael Crichton.
Currently watching - uhh the new Futurama I guess? Spoiler alert they're super mid and I honestly can't recommend lol
Current obsession- Baldur's Gate 3. Like, last thought at night first thought in the morning I would absolutely do nothing but BG3 if I could lol
I've been pretty incognitus lately so I feel too guilty to tag 😩😩😩
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critical-quoter · 3 months
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'You love her?' 'I have loved her for years.' 'Then you need to let her love you in return. To refuse her love when you long for it would be a cruelty no woman deserves.'
Court of Serpents and Secrets - Eliza Raine
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books-in-a-storm · 9 months
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Never underestimate a librarian.
I had time for one big breath before we dove into the ocean after Poseidon.
-Secrets Of The Broken King, Eliza Raine
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pureanonofficial · 1 year
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From Charlotte Kennedy’s West End debut as Eliza. 
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dsrtrosearchived · 2 years
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current  fave  category  of  muse  nonsense  is  discovering  what  minuscule,  insignificant  things  that  y'alls  muses  do  that  make  eliza  irrationally  angry.  drop  suggestions  in  the  replies  :)
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staciass · 2 months
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I think Raina is growing on me. Not so whiny and blerh
She’s kind, sweet, caring and kinda funny in her own way I’m really warming to her I think
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