#eliza sheffield

[dreammakcr]

( okay! for new followers, this is a full list of muses that are not on my muse page yet. <3 )

lilith - a court of thorns and roses (OC rhysand’s sister)

medusa - greek mythology

isobel - baulder’s gate 3

vidia - disney’s tinkerbell

balthazar - supernatural

johnny gat - saint’s row

han solo - star wars

leia organa - star wars

padme amidala - star wars

helios - greek mythlogy

nora west-allen - detective comics

barry allen - detective comics

dorothy gale - the wizard of oz

angelica schuyler - hamilton

eliza schuyler - hamilton

olivia pope - scandal

jasper frost - the royals

eleanor hestridge - the royals

alosa kalligan - daughter of the pirate king

eelyn - sky in the deep

mirabel madrigal - encanto

dolores madrigal - encanto

barbie - barbie

artemis - greek mythology

rose dewitt bukater - titanic

alice liddell - alice madness returns

will turner - pirates of the caribbean

elizabeth swann - pirates of the caribbean

nessarose thropp - wicked

penny lamb - ride the cyclone

sandy olsson from grease

betty rizzo from grease

willow rosenberg from buffy the vampire slayer

kal from halloweentown 2

marnie piper from halloweentown

juliet starling from lollipop chainsaw

william gracey from the haunted mansion

sadie adler from red dead 2

arthur morgan from red dead 2

teddy lupin from harry potter

roxanne weasley from harry potter

fleur delacour from harry potter

calliope from greek mythology

richard castle from castle

kate beckett from castle

hilda spellman from sabrina the teenage witch

sabrina spellman from sabrina the teenage witch

jason mendoza from the good place

tahani al jamil from the good place

amren from a court of thorns and roses

jake peralta from brooklyn 99

velma dinkely from scooby doo

fred jones from scooby doo

daphne blake from scooby doo

shaggy rogers from scooby doo

phoenix winchester from supernatural (OC daughter of Cassie and Dean)

miss honey from matilda

matilda from matilda

jessica day from new girl

maxwell sheffield from the nanny

(young) blanche deveraux from the golden girls

merope gaunt from harry potter

janine teagues from abbott elementary

aurora dubois from sleeping beauty

anne sallow from hogwarts legacy

poppy sweeting from hogwarts legacy

tom riddle from harry potter

jeffrey winger from community

troy barnes from community

annie edison from community

river song from doctor who

helena bertinelli from detective comics

dinah lance from detective comics

princess yona from yona and the dawn

clover ewing from totally spies

magdalene defoe from repo! the genetic opera

amber sweet from repo! the genetic opera

shilo wallace from repo! the genetic opera

carmen cortez from spy kids

ami mizuno from sailor moon

gretchen wieners from mean girls

karen smith from mean girls

prince phillip from sleeping beauty

helen parr from the incredibles

rei hino from sailor moon

danielle de barbarac from ever after

deena johnson from fear street

laurie strode from halloween

gale weathers from scream

sidney prescott from scream

samantha carpenter from scream

[kiroenthusiast]

Ladies and Gentlemen: Book 1

Characters from "Connection" book 1 in this historical romance series.

Eliza Crawford

Leander Blackwood

Isabelle Blackwood

Claude Sheffield

Percy Crawford

Michael Reeves

Phoebe Lang

[sokkas-first-fangirl]

Question re your ABO universe. If an alpha fathers a child with an omega, and they’re not married, who gets presumptive custody? Like if they split and things turn nasty, who takes who to court? I imagine that if the alpha doesn’t care at all (like Phoebe with Helen) it’s not much of an issue, but if the alpha does want to stay involved, are there laws that protect the omegas since they’re the ones actually giving birth?

Originally the courts would (more often than not) look at whoever the Alpha is for primary custody rights

Those protections didn’t come in until much later. Look at poor Eliza Sheffield for instance.

Leia Sheffield had more protection from a mix of changing laws, her family’s money and status and Sheffield’s own heavily damaged reputation by that point

[mrsfreddyeynsfordhill]

The Rain in Spain scene in the Sheffield production of My Fair Lady.

[margoshansons]

My thoughts on Anthony and Kate in Bridgerton s2:

- The love triangle was pointless, it was supposed to add depth to Edwina’s character but instead turned her into a plot device and ruined her relationship with Kate as well as making Kate and Anthony look really bad.

- Also where was Mary? Why was Kate given a maternal role for Edwina when Edwina’s mother is literally right there?

- Lady Danbury should have had a smaller role and all her scenes with Kate should have been given to Mary also how did Mary not realize Kate had feelings for Anthony until Edwina did? Edwina was naive and misled but Mary had no excuse?

- How was Daphne the only Bridgerton to pick up on Anthony’s feelings for Kate? Anthony was NOT subtle.

- Kate claims to desire a love match for her sister above all else but begs Anthony to continue his engagement to Edwina when she knows he doesn’t love her?

- This one’s probably controversial but where do Anthony and Kate fall in love? they barely speak to each other and when they do it’s nothing of substance. They have heaps of sexual tension but where is that emotional connection that made the book so poignant?

- This one is also controversial but Kate is supposed to be a soft character, in the book she is stone-faced and confrontational with Anthony until the library scene but she is shown as kind and open with everyone else. She charms people easily and is funny. Her thunderstorm trauma, panic attacks and self-esteem issues make her deeply sympathizable and I feel the tv writers did a great disservice to Kate’s character and to the audience by removing that representation.

-In the same vein as the last point Anthony and Kate are not supposed to be exact mirrors of each other’s personality. They share some key values and personality traits and that is why they connect emotionally so well but they are not the same and there are key differences as well that complement each other.

ooh okay so this is a lot (which I love! please send me more asks on Bridgerton) so I'm gonna go through each point. For the most part I agree with your thoughts but I, a capricorn, am incapable of not sharing my own opinions so here we go.

1. Yes I completely agree. Edwina's character was well and truly assassinated the moment they decided to give her and Kate a love triangle over Anthony.

2. I actually love the idea of Kate shouldering the burden of the family because Mary was so emotionally distraught after Miles' death, but they should've shown us more to support that instead of telling us.

3. YES I AGREE. Mary should've been the one to comfort and mentor Kate through this season and tbh I thought it was really weird that Kate didn't tell Mary about the Sheffield fortune thing. I legit assumed (up until 2x05) that Mary was the one who told Kate and that was the reason she decided to take them both to England. I think Mary knew, but they wanted to reinforce the idea that Kate was alone and always fighting for acceptance with her family, so they decided to make Mary firmly on Edwina's side which is *YIKES*

4. To be fair, only one Bridgerton is allowed a braincell and this season it was Daphne. Everyone else was off doing their own thing and it's common knowledge that the Bridgerton family is HELLA unobservant, although I did miss Violet trying to play matchmaker with Anthony.

5. This is complicated. To put it simply, it is a love match, but it's a one sided love match. Kate is so sure that Edwina's heart will break the moment Anthony calls off the engagement (and she has good reason to believe this after 2x03) and she will be inconsolable, that Kate sacrifices her own wants and desires to make sure that Edwina is with the man she loves, even if he doesn't love her back. Which is very contrary to her characterization in the book tbh. It's a lot like Angelica and Eliza in Hamilton. Angelica knows that Hamilton isn't in love with Eliza when they meet but Eliza is, so she hands him over so that her sister can be with the man she loves. And I'm sure Kate thought that Anthony would eventually develop feelings for Edwina later on, especially since throughout the book Kate is always believing that Anthony has fallen in love with Edwina. (but really Edwina should've bowed out the moment Anthony said "nah I don't want love and I'm not convinced that she wasn't going to after the dinner)

6. It is my personal belief that they fall in love during the Pall Mall game. They become infatuated with each other during their morning ride, they start crushing on each other during Danbury's ball and they truly start to fall in love with one another during Pall Mall when Kate sees how close this family is and Anthony sees how Kate fits right in. And then I think those feelings are sealed during the mud scene when they both realize how much they can relax in each other's company. It really doesn't take a lot to fall in love, and I think their infatuation along with the realization that they can relax in one another's company led to the formation of that love. But yes, I do wish we could've gotten more conversations between them instead of just...eyefucking.

7. There's a lot about Kate's characterization that rubbed me the wrong way, but frankly that's a conversation for another time, but I do like that they leaned more into the Eldest Daughter syndrome and replaced her insecurity about her looks to an insecurity about not being loved due to her status as a stepdaughter instead of a biological daughter. I definitely agree that they should've delved deeper into her trauma regarding thunderstorms and her mom though.

8. I like that they mirror each other, although it shouldn't have come at the expense of Kate's other personality traits. But I love the whole "we're unintentional mirrors" trope because it forces the person to confront both the good and the bad about themselves.

Bridgerton Asks

[deeisace]

Alright! 

@calamitys-child​ I have several records for a Sophie Devereux!

Or Sophia, or Sophy, y’know - no Deverauxs, or Devereauxs, tho, I don’t think?

This is possibly (definitely) far more detailed than you were expecting, but like. This is. Yeah.

So. We have 

1 - Sophy Maria Devereux, a bricklayer’s wife from Burton Latimer. She was born Sophy Maria Westley in 1863, she was a machinist as a teenager, and then married an Amos Charles Devereux, in 1879 - though she said she was 18 when she was 16, probably so her parents didn’t have to sign off for it, and she was possibly already pregnant with her first child, Arthur. 

[ID: part of a 1911 census, which lists Amos Charles Devereux as head of the house. He is a 54 year old bricklayer. His wife is Sophy Maria Deveraux, 47. They have been married for 30 years. She is recorded as having had 14 children, though only 3 of them are still living. Then is their daughter Hannah Elizabeth Devereux, a 25 year old glover. /End ID.]

Sophy’s surviving children were Arthur, possibly her firstborn, Annie, and Hannah (as above). Arthur served in the RASC during the war (he had grey eyes. brown hair, and a fresh complexion, and went to France) and became a cutlery grinder. Annie and Hannah were both at one stage shoemakers.

This Sophy died in Kettering in 1921.

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2 - Sophia Devereax, a file cutter’s wife in Sheffield. She was born in 1828 in Loxley - I don’t know under what name, as I can’t find a marriage record, but I do know her husband (common-law or otherwise) was called Thomas Devereax, and he was from Wolverhampton. His first wife (Hannah Wynn from Birmingham) died in 1867, and Sophia is with him on the 1871 census. They don’t appear to have had any children together, unsurprisingly, but Thomas had five children from his previous marriage (Joseph, Alfred, Kate, Samuel and Mary). After Sophia died (sometime during the 1870s, as in 1881, Thomas is a widower), Thomas became a licensed victualler, and ran the Spring Wood Inn on Freedom Street in Sheffield, with his daughter Kate as barmaid.

[ID: part of a 1871 census, which lists Thomas Devereax as head of the household. He is 45 years old. His wife Sophia is 43, and follow his children - Joseph, 18, Alfred, 16, Kate, 12, Samuel, 10, and Mary, 7. /End ID]

That one’s a bit of a mystery, and I spent too long looking up the name of the pub (thank you pubwiki, and who knew that was a thing)

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3 - Sophie P Devereux, a jeweller’s clerk in King’s Norton. I know even less about this one than the others, as she wasn’t married or

oh hohoho wait

Sophia Petrie Devereux, born 1854 in Bodenham, Hereford to Henry George Devereux and Sophia Petrie. Henry was lately a farmer of 160 acres, having lost his farm sometime in the 50s I believe, tho on his death in 1879 he was listed as a yeoman, which as I (cityfolk I am) understand it is basically a farmer, idk.

 Sophia Petrie herself (she ought to have her own listing, whoops) was a farmer’s daughter, tho she was from Snettisham in Norfolk, her father had 200 acres there and both her parents (Archibald and Jessie Petrie) were from Scotland. Archie and Jessie had ten children on their two censuses (1841 and 1851) and were both born in the 1790s. Their children (Sophia Petrie’s siblings and Sophia Devereux’s aunts and uncles) were, in order as I have them - Eliza, Susannah, Archibald, Charles, Jessie, Sophia, Euphemia, Agnes, John and Walter - tho Eliza was 22 in 1841 and it’s very possible there’s older ones than her.

Anyway, Sophie P D. I have for her four English censuses - three of which she lived with her parents in Aston, and the last she was a boarder with the Hackwood family in King’s Norton. Then I have 10 electoral rolls listings for her, dating 1919 to 1942 - for a place called Caulfield, Victoria in Australia! Which is cool! A jetsetting Sophie! I mean, I don’t know when she left for Australia, but they definitely didn’t have jets. 

Here she is on the 1919 electoral roll -

[ID: an electoral roll listing that reads - Devereux, Sophia Petrie, 33 Wanda rd., Caulfield, clerk, F. /End ID]

Ooh, Wanda Road is now some lovely little two-storey houses with little gardens - tho they’re definitely not original to Sophia’s time. Well, the wooden bungalow-y sort of ones further down might be, idk, but there’s a lot of new brick there. Also a lot of trees!

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4 - Last but not least, and possibly my favourite if only because of her husband’s name - Sophia Devereux, born in Arsley Bedfordshire, married to one Offspring Devereux. No that is not a typo, that is his actual name.

[ID: part of a 1851 census, which shows Offspring Devereux, a 23 year old agricultural labourer, and his wife Sophia, age 21. They are listed as son and daughter in law of the head of the household, John Green, indicating that either Offspring or Sophia is the child of his wife Ann. /End ID]

I’ve done a bit of a search and I think that Sophia’s maiden name is Crouch, and she might be Ann’s daughter from a previous-previous marriage. Or she’s been adopted and kept her surname. All a bit convoluted.

Ah, yep - Sophy, as she was on her marriage and her baptism records - her parents were Edward and Ann Crouch. She was born in 1829, in Arlesey, it is now.

In later censuses, Sophia is a straw plaiter - that is, plaiting up straw strands to make into hats and things - because agricultural labour, then as now, doesn’t pay very well, and Sophia and Offspring (also a shepherd at times) had an eventual six children to feed.

Sophia died in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire (which is such an incredibly English-sounding place name) in 1890, age 60.

Offspring is not a common name, unsurprisingly, but there have been at least 7 Offsprings born in Bedfordshire - our one was born in the mid-1820s, but there was an Offspring Webb born around 1810, again in Arlsey - he doesn’t appear to have given any of his sons his own name, but one of his daughters is called Fanny - oh, no, wait, his youngest child is called Offspring, never mind

Did they run out of names?? This is so much worse than my uncle Redvers. Like, why?? Also, surely their wives didn’t call them ‘Offspring’, surely not

[entangledmuses]

MUSES

BY FANDOM:

9-1-1:

Lucy Donato Harvin Jacobs (OC)

BAD BOYS:

Kelly Lewis

BITTEN:

Elena Michaels BRIDGERTON:

Daphne Bridgerton                                                     Kate Sheffield/Sharma Sophie Beckett Emma Ashwell (OC) Eliza Montgomery (OC)

BUFFY/ANGEL:

Cordelia Chase                                                           Faith Lehane 

CHICAGO FIRE:

Stella Kidd Sylvie Brett Lucianna Garcia (OC)

CHICAGO MED:

Jenna Isaacs (OC) (v)

CHICAGO PD:

Hailey Upton Kim Burgess                                      

CRAZY RICH ASIANS:

Astrid Leong

DCEU

Harley Quinn (Selective)

DEMI-GODDESS

Cleopatra Kent (OC) Daughter of Ares Mika Bishop (OC) Daughter of Athena Alba Murphy (OC) Daughter of Iris Lorelai Lakes (OC) Daughter of Hecate Sullivan Thromby (OC) Daughter of Hades

DISNEY: (live action fcs)

Princess Jasmine                                                     Megara

DIVERGENT

Christina

FANTASTIC BEASTS

Lally Hicks

FEAR STREET

Cindy Berman

GAME OF THRONES:

Margaery Tyrell                                                       Seraphina Varley (OC) (v)

HANSEL AND GRETEL:WITCH HUNTERS:

Gretel (With AU verses)

HARRY POTTER:

Astoria Greengrass          Demelza Robbins                     Ginny Weasley Hermione Granger          Padma Patil                                                           Parvati Patil Pansy Parkinson                 Victoire Weasley     Lily Evans/Potter      Rowena Ravenclaw                                        Everly Keeler (OC) Violet Kerrington (OC)

HEMLOCK GROVE:

Letha Godfrey

HUNGER GAMES:

Madge Undersee

JAMES BOND

Paloma Becka Leithold-Bond (OC)

KINGSMAN:

Roxy Morton

KNIVES OUT: THE GLASS ONION:

Whiskey

LAST KINGDOM:

Eadith of Mercia Katri Mäkinen (OC) (v) Magna Sigurdsdottir (OC) (v) Renia Leifsdottir (OC) (v) Seraphina Varley (OC) (v) Freya Rixon (OC) (v) Rosalia Menendez (OC) (v)

LITTLE WOMEN

Amy March

LOCKWOOD AND CO:

Lucy Carlyle Rylie Theakston (OC) (v)

MCU:

Kate Bishop                                          Maria Hill Michelle ‘MJ’ Jones                                               Natasha Romanoff Sharon Carter              Yelena Belova Amelia Hudson (OC)                                             Peyton Coyle (OC) Seraphina Varley (OC) (v)

MUSKETEERS

Anne of Austria Constance Bonacieux Bea Browne (OC) Prudence Mallorey (OC)

MYTH/LEGEND/LORE:

Amphitrite (Greek)                                                 Artemis/Autumn (Greek) Hera/Helena (Greek)               Persephone (Greek)            Athena (Greek) Aphrodite (Greek)      Mina Harker (Dracula) Guinevere (Arthurian)

NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY:

Jesusita Valenzuela

NARNIA:

Susan Pevensie Freya Rixon (OC) (v) Seraphina Varley (OC) (v)

NIGHT AGENT:

Rose Larkin (Currently Single Ship)

OUTER BANKS:

Kiara Carrera Kelsey Heyward (OC) Cece Roachford (OC)(v) Morgan Kendell (OC)(v)

REIGN:

Mary Stuart Lola Narcisse Katri Mäkinen (OC) (v) Rosalia Menendez (OC) (v)

ROBIN HOOD (BBC):

Marian of Knighton Seraphina Varley (OC) (v)

The ROOKIE:

Grace Sawyer Lucy Chen

SECRET CIRCLE

Diana Meade (Book based)

SHADOWHUNTERS:

Tessa Gray (Infernal Devices)           Izzy Lightwood (Show based) Sawyer McIntrye (OC) (v)

The SHANARA CHRONICLES

Eretria

The SOCIETY

Helena Wu Kelly Aldrich

STRANGER THINGS:

Chrissy Cunningham Nancy Wheeler Nicole Holloway (OC) Katherine Hopper (OC) Cassandra Meyer (OC) Audrey Meyer (OC) Flora Cartwright  (OC) Morgan Kendall (OC) (v) Walker Benson (OC)(v) Heather Ryder (OC)(v) Eva Timothee (OC)(v) Leah Teverson (OC)

SUPERNATURAL:

Bela Talbot                                         Claire Novak Lisa Braeden                                     Jo Harvelle Donna Hanscum        Sarah Blake       Alana West: (OC)                          Grace Harrington (OC) (v) Oria Hernedez (OC) (v) Gretel (Canon with Verse) Henley Knight (OC) Sawyer McIntrye (OC) (v) Harper Tripp (OC) (v) Isla Perkiss (OC) (v) Rylie Theakston (OC) Maya Rallings (OC) (v)

TEEN WOLF:

Lydia Martin             Hayden Romero Cora Hale Laura Hale Julia Hale (OC) Dani Delgado (OC)              Harper Tripp (OC) (v) Emmy Janson (OC)(v) Rylie Theakston (OC) Maya Rallings (OC) (v) Sofia Perez (OC) (v)

THIS IS US

Sophie Inman

TITANS:

Dawn Granger                               Donna Troy

TRUE BLOOD:

Jessica Hamby                           Nora Gainesborough Sookie Stackhouse

The UMBRELLA ACADEMY:

Sloane Hargreeves Lila Pitts                       Samara Akerman (OC)

VAMPIRE ACADEMY:

Rose Hathaway                       Sydney Sage Lissa Dragomir

VAMPIRE DIARIES:

Bonnie Bennett Caroline Forbes Katherine Pierce Rebekah Mikaelson

VIKINGS:

Amma Katia Lagertha Katri Mäkinen (OC) (v) Magda Sigurdsdottir (OC) Renia Leifsdottir (OC) Seraphina Varley (OC) (v) Freya Rixon (OC) (v) Rosalia Menendez (OC) (v)

VIRGIN RIVER

Mel Monroe

WEDNESDAY

Wednesday Addams Astra Kernals (OC) (v) Violet Kerrington (OC)- can fit into fandom

The WITCHER:

Renfri Seraphina Varley (OC) (v)

WOLF PACK:

Luna Briggs   Emmy Janson (OC) (v) Sofia Perez  (OC) (v) Maya Rallings (OC) (v)

OTHER OC’S: though all OCs can be fandomless too

Sidney Hemmingway: Abilities- Sense and Water Augmentation Sloan Hemmingway: Abilities- Camouflage and Projection  Adrian Houston - Cop - works in - stranger things, 9-1-1, One Chicago Paige Temple: Paleontologist/Archaeologist Lara Matthews: Abilities: Empath Jenna Isaacs - Med Student Ava Jackson: Bartender/Owner of the Cellardoor Bar Cameron Yates: Bartender at Cellardoor Bar Meredith Price: Museum Curator Gabriella Diaz: Mechanic Sierra Wesley: Traveller  Odette Sevigny: French Heiress Harper Tripp: Phoenix - works in: Supernatural, Teen Wolf Avery Collingwood - Marketing executive Lizzie Marsden - Vampire Sawyer McIntrye: Nephilim - works in: Shadowhunters, Supernatural Juliana “Jules” Silva: Teacher Keely Sumners: Art Dealer Taylor Brockhart: Multiverse (Powers, Werewolf, Fandomless) Sofia Perez: Werewolf - works in: Teen Wolf, Supernatural, Wolf Pack Brooke Wilsher: Witch Kate Steiner: Fandomless - works in: Cobra Kai Charlotte Deighton: CEO Isla Perkiss: Witches Familiar - works in: Supernatural, Charmed Emmy Janson: Wolf - works in- Teen wolf, Supernatural, Wolf Pack Lucianna Garcia - EMT OC  - works in - One Chicago, 9-1-1      Grace Harrington - Witch OC - works in: Supernatural Oria Hernedez - Demon OC - works in Supernatural Kennedy Waite - Single mother/waitress OC  Walker Benson - Precog OC - Verses in - Stranger things, Supernatural Tallulah Spencer - Abilities- Elemental Sadie Hart - Half Fae Faye Sibley - Journalist OC Delia Costillo - Events Planner Rylie Theakston - Abilities - works in - Teen Wolf, Supernatural, Lockwood &Co.  Quinn Ashwood - Student Norah Parrish - Yoga Instructor/Fitness Instructor Greyson Ferris - Marine Biologist Amy Hartwell -Single Mum Clara Pennington - Interior Designer Kamile Acer - Hotel Manager/Receptionist Kayleigh Brunton - Singer/Songwriter Blair Kytes - Movie trailer producer Selene Underseth - Water Nymph Maya Rallings - Werewolf Sarah Foster - Photographer Morgan Kendell - Lifeguard - works in - Stranger things, OBX, has Nymph verse Beatrix Browne - Historical OC - works in - Merlin, Last Kingdom, Musketeers Aiyla Kartal - Multiverse - Harry Potter, Royalty, fandomless

SINGLE SHIP Winnet Mallorey: (Single Ship) Second Gen Musketeer child Olivia Isaacs: (singleShip) Chef May Page:  (Single Ship) Abilities: Gravitokinesis Ryan Loughman: (Single Ship) Cop Ember Rodriguez:  (Single Ship) Pyrokinesis Alyson Kent: (single ship) English Professor - Mother of Cleo Nicole Robinson (Single ship) Sister of Cassie Robinson Zoey Upstead (Single Ship) Ex Fiance of Peter Sutherland

[fenixburnedarchived]

CHEAT SHEET : WARIS FULTON

full name: Waris Eliza Fulton

daughter of an Guyanese father &  a British-Polish mother

grew up in Scotland near Edinburgh

eventually went to study in England (Sheffield I think) for a librarianship degree & afterwards began working in Oxford

obviously she’s very passionate about books & an avid reader herself, she loves to help out patrons & recommend books.

she owns a small flat not far away from her workplace, where she lives with her two cats

apart from reading, Waris also loves knitting & she sometimes writes poems (though she doesn’t show them to anyone)

she’s around 28, when she receives the offer to become chief librarian & learns that this means inheriting another position too: she also becomes head of the underground library, a whole maze under Oxford, filled with books about magic, that have vanished from the human world above. a human librarian is chosen to watch over this place (while it is meant for magic users, they can’t use their powers down in the library, so the librarian should be safe), once the last one retires. The most important task is to stay neutral, to act as a link between the magical and the human world & make sure the two don’t intertwine.

Waris’ curiosity is sparked & she accepts both positions.

So now she’s living a double life, working in a small, unremarkable library by day & in the magic library during full moons & holidays. 

oh, she’s definitely bi & probably asexual (bc who am I if I can’t self-insert?)

verses i’m gonna work on (for now): the m.agnus a.rchives, p.jo, the o.ld g.uard, historical verses

[paralleljulieverse]

From the Archives: What Makes a Lady Fair? 

This charming shot of a 22-year-old Julie Andrews was taken in New York in early 1958 when the young star was finishing her long two-year run in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady and was about to return to London to helm the show’s premiere West End bow. The photo forms part of a two-page fashion spread in the March issue of Mademoiselle magazine with a companion shot on the facing page of Sally Ann Howes, the star who was stepping in to Julie’s shoes as Eliza Dolittle on Broadway. The two women are shown modelling various items of fashion apparel for the coming spring season: in Julie’s case, a beige blouse by Macshore Classics “tucked and bowed in the best ladylike tradition” and a “Sheffield watch with interchangeable suede strap” (“What Makes,” 127).

The image intrigues as a further instance of the extraordinary cultural impact of Julie’s My Fair Lady stardom and its mobilisation as a kind of pop ideal of 50s female fashionability. Subtitled “the magazine for smart young women”, Mademoiselle was a trailblazing force in mid-century publishing that targeted the then burgeoning new market of increasingly educated and independent middle-class women aged between 18-35 (Aron 2017). In a sharp departure from earlier women’s periodicals, Mademoiselle addressed its female readers as what editor-in-chief, Betsy Talbot Blackwell liked to call “whole persons,” young college-age women who were as likely to be interested in politics, culture, and art, as in traditional ‘feminine’ concerns of fashion and homemaking (Taylor, 70). Thus, alongside glossy couture spreads and cosmetics advertorials, the magazine ran articles about topical social issues, travel, career advice, and also placed a premium on showcasing fiction from important young writers of the day such as Sylvia Plath, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, and Dylan Thomas (Keller 2001). 

It doesn’t take much to see how the mythos of transformed femininity at the heart of My Fair Lady would have resonated with Mademoiselle’s spirit of 50s-era liberal feminism. Indeed, the magazine was renowned for staging ‘Pygmalionesque’ makeovers of its own. One of Blackwell’s earliest innovations as editor of the magazine was to take:

“plain young women to New York, where she put them in stylish clothes, restyled their hair and makeup and then put their pictures in her magazine. The idea that an ordinary girl could be turned into a fashion model soon made Mademoiselle must reading for young women across the land” (“Betsy,” II-2).

This strategy was developed further with the magazine’s highly publicised  annual internship programmes where a select group of twenty young women would be brought to New York each summer to work as trainee editors, stylists and graphic designers culminating in an annual issue that they would produce. A number of very notable American women got their professional start through the Mademoiselle intern programme including Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine du Plessix Gray, Barbara Kruger, and Ali McGraw (Keller 2001; Wolitzer 2013).*

A certain visual thematic of (proto-)feminist empowerment might also be discerned in the photograph of Julie. Dressed in the advertiser’s smart business-like apparel with her head tilted up and her gaze focussed heavenward, the young star appears resolutely poised and assured. Framed in full centred mid-shot, Julie’s left arm is positioned upright -- a gesture designed to showcase the watch, no doubt, but that also evokes images of strong-armed power and authority -- as she holds aloft a posy of violets, an indexical reference to her triumph as the original Eliza, a role that she had firmly in hand. The accompanying copy repeats the undertones of power and success, describing Julie as a “veteran at the business of being a fair lady” and mentioning the impending transfer of her hit show to London (“What Makes,” 127).

This liberal feminist ethos extends equally to the other side of the camera. Mademoiselle made a point of hiring women professionals wherever possible, including photographers in an era when fashion photography was still a heavily male-dominated preserve. This particular photoshoot was taken by Vivian Crozier, a house photographer who did a lot of work for Mademoiselle in the 50s and early-60s, as well as freelance assignments for other periodicals including Seventeen, American Girl, and Parade Picture (Smith 1955; Mayers 1977). There isn’t a lot of readily available information about Crozier. In 1969 she was listed in the Sixth Edition of the Who's Who of American Women (”Area Women,” 9). After that she seems to have retired from professional magazine photography and set up a small commercial studio in central New Jersey where she did portraits, weddings and publicity work but also continued the Mademoiselle tradition of opportunity-building for young women with special workshops “for girls interested in fashion modelling” (Mayers, 8). In the 1970s, Crozier continued periodically to submit her work to local galleries and exhibitions where, pleasingly, she cited photographing Julie Andrews as one of the highlights of her career (Herman, 14). 

Notes:

* In an interesting Julie-related footnote, the young women who secured these annual summer internships with Mademoiselle would all be housed together at New York’s “women-only” Barbizon Hotel. The popular nickname for these young hopefuls who came to the big city with dreams of success? The “Millies” (Aron, 2017).

Sources:

“Area Women Named to Who’s Who.” The Daily Register, 17 November 1969: 9. 

Aron, Nina Renata. “A Women’s Magazine that Treated its Readers like they had Brains, Hearts, and Style? Mademoiselle was it.” Timeline.com. 23 August 2017. 

“Betsy Blackwell, Former Magazine Editor, Dies.” Los Angeles Times. 18 February 1985: II-2.

Herman, Hazel. “Houser, Grozier Featured in Local Exhibit.” Messenger-Press. 10 March 1977: 14. 

Keller, Julia. “To a Generation, Mademoiselle was Stuff of Literary Dreams.” Chicago Tribune, 5 October 2001: S5 1-3.

Mayers, Bob. “As Seen by the Press: Vivian Crozier Photographer on Main Street in Hightstown Has Your Future in Focus.” Hightstown Gazette. 21 April 1977: 8.

Smith, Winnie. “Homespun.” Pensacola News Journal. 9 January 1955: 23, 33.

Taylor, Angela. “At Mademoiselle, Changing of the Guard.” The New York Times, 4 April 1971: 70.

“What Makes a Lady Fair?” Mademoiselle, March 1958: 126-27.

Wolitzer, Meg. “My Mademoiselle Summer.” The New York Times, 19 July 2013: ST-1.

Copyright © Brett Farmer 2020

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Fran Drescher, Millennial Whisperer – The New York Times

Fran Drescher’s voice, if you ever have the chance to hear it deployed in very close vicinity over shrimp tempura and spicy tuna sushi, is actually quite soothing.

When Drescher played Fran Fine on “The Nanny,” the 1990s sitcom she created with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, she was pitching her voice higher, squeezing it up her nose, acting. Back then, The New York Times compared Drescher to “the sound of a Buick with an empty gas tank cold-cranking on a winter morning.” But here in her living room above Central Park, sitting among crystals, fresh lemons, fine sculpture and photographs of herself meeting establishment Democrats, she sounds more like a Mercedes purring out of the Long Island Expressway. For those who grew up with “The Nanny” as our nanny, her voice is so embedded in the subconscious that hearing the softened version is almost therapeutic. Imagine if Nanny Fine had an ASMR setting.

“I’ve heard it’s like a foghorn, a cackle,” Drescher said carefully, balancing her plate in the lap of her little black dress. “I always just describe myself as having a unique voice.” When she left Queens for Hollywood in the late 1970s, her manager told her, “If you want to play other parts, besides hookers, you’re going to have to learn to speak differently,” she recalled. Instead Drescher leaned into her natural gifts. In 1992, she pitched herself as a sitcom star to the president of CBS: “Because of the voice, they think I’m the seasoning in the show,” she told him. “That’s wrong. I’m a main course.”

America has not heard from Drescher much lately — she has not appeared regularly on television since her TV Land sitcom “Happily Divorced” ended in 2013, and “The Nanny” is sadly hard to stream — but this week, at 62, she returns to TV with NBC’s “Indebted.” As in the pilot of “The Nanny,” Drescher appears unexpectedly on a doorstep, except this time, it belongs to her adult son (Adam Pally). She and Steven Weber play Debbie and Stew Klein, a couple of boomer dilettantes who crash their kid’s married life with the news that they’re in debt. The role of Debbie, a boundaryless hugger who swans around her son’s suburban home as if it’s her own personal retirement community, inverts the “Nanny” dynamic: Now the kids have to take care of her.

When Drescher weighed whether to take on the show, a family sitcom that draws on generational conflict, she thought of her own family. “My parents, who are still alive, thank God, were so excited about me being on network television again,” she said. “You know, not everybody could find TV Land,” she added, “but everybody could find NBC.”

The role was not written for Drescher, exactly. The pilot script had called for a “Fran Drescher type,” and when the real Fran Drescher signed on, she required a few adjustments. “People are used to seeing an annoying mother-in-law in a sitcom, but that’s not what I signed up for,” Drescher said. “When you have somebody whose persona is bigger than the part, you got to make it right for me. Or why have me?”

That meant giving Debbie Klein some passions of her own. “I had to bring myself into it,” she said. “I really infused the sex appeal, the sensuality, the vivaciousness of the character.”

“Indebted” creator Dan Levy, a comedian and producer for “The Goldbergs,” said that he originally modeled Debbie and Stew after his own parents, but that the steaminess was all Drescher. “My mom was like, ‘That’s not based on us,’” Levy said. “She elevated that to a whole level that I was not expecting.”

In the decades since Drescher first opened her mouth onscreen, the Fran Drescher type has achieved a quiet dominance over popular culture. “The Nanny” has been syndicated around the world and remade in a dozen countries, including Turkey (where it was called “Dadi”), Poland (“Niania”) and Argentina (“La Niñera”). In “The Nanny,” for anyone who doesn’t have the chatty theme song implanted in her brain, Drescher plays a Jewish woman from Queens hired to tend to the three precocious children of a wealthy English widower, Maxwell Sheffield, who is also Broadway’s second-most-successful producer (after his nemesis, Andrew Lloyd Webber). In foreign versions, the ethnicities are recalibrated — in the Russian one, the nanny is Ukrainian — but the Fran Drescher type is otherwise preserved. Wherever she goes, the ethnic striver is transplanted into a posh setting as the help, and her appealing culture and individual charm pull off the ultimate makeover — reinventing the strait-laced insiders in her own brash image.

Across the internet, Fran Fine is helping to perform similar tricks. With her pile of hair, power-clashing wardrobe and cartoon proportions, she has been fashioned into an avatar of stylish self-respect. In GIFs spirited around social media, she can be seen in a cheetah-print skirt suit, sipping from a cheetah-print teacup; inhaling a plate of spaghetti with no hands; and descending the Sheffields’ ivory staircase as if entering New York’s hottest club.

“I send this when I’m excited,” Drescher said, summoning her phone from her assistant Jordan and thumbing to a GIF of Fine twirling across the mansion in a fuchsia dress and a self-satisfied look. “How many people can send their own GIF?”

The Fran Drescher type is a kind of advisory role. First she was the world’s nanny, showing kids how to mix prints and be themselves, and now she has matured into a cool-aunt persona, modeling a fabulous adulthood. (“Broad City” made this transformation literal, squeezing Drescher into a low cut rainbow and cheetah-print dress and casting her as Ilana’s Aunt Bev, and by extension the spirit guide for a new generation of Jewish comediennes.) “I’ve never had kids, so I’m not really parental,” Drescher said. “I’m a mom to my dogs.”

“I’m kind of an influencer,” she added. Drescher has led an unconventional life, and “I share it,” she said. “It gives my life purpose.” In two memoirs, she has discussed being raped at gunpoint in her 20s, surviving uterine cancer in her 40s, and divorcing Jacobson only to acquire a new gay best friend when he subsequently came out. Recently she thrilled the internet when she revealed that she has secured a “friend with benefits” whom she meets twice a month for television viewing and sex. “I don’t think it’s that shocking a thing,” Drescher said. “I’m not in love with him.”

The kids who grew up watching “The Nanny” are now Nanny Fine’s age, old enough to properly covet her closet and cultivate a newfound respect for her persona. On Instagram, the @whatfranwore account catalogs classic “Nanny” outfits, and @thenannyart pairs them with contemporary art pieces. Cardi B once captioned a photo of herself in head-to-toe cat prints: “Fran Drescher in @dolceandgabbana.” The actor Isabelle Owens will mount a one-woman song-and-dance show dedicated to Drescher in New York this month, called “Fran Drescher, Please Adopt Me!” “As everything from the ’90s comes back, people are rediscovering her,” Owens said, noting Drescher’s fashion, her confidence, and her voice; Owens is still working to perfect her impersonation. “There are so many layers to it,” she said. “It’s so delicate and lyrical.”

The Fran Drescher type, no matter how big it gets, still risks reducing the woman behind it. “All of her is in me, but not all of me is in her,” Drescher said. “I don’t think any of my characters could have ever created and executive-produced ‘The Nanny.’” Fran Fine might have been able to wrap the boss around her red-lacquered little finger, but Drescher is the boss. When she secured her own New York apartment, in 2004, it was here, just across the park from the house that stood in for the Sheffield mansion on “The Nanny.” Soon her transformation into Mr. Sheffield will be complete: She is developing a Broadway show of her own, a musical adaptation of “The Nanny” that she will co-write with Jacobson.

“The Nanny” is a timely bid for Broadway. Drescher takes the stage’s most classic feminine archetype and gives her a modern upgrade: She is Eliza Doolittle if she refused to take her voice lessons.

That’s perhaps the biggest misconception about the Fran Drescher type — that the voice is an unfortunate obstacle, rather than a cultivated asset. Once, a fan asked Drescher about the classic “Nanny” scene where Fran Fine goes for sushi, naïvely swallows a wad of wasabi, and says, in an eerily neutral broadcaster’s voice, “Gee, you know, that mustard really clears out the nasal passages.” The fan wanted to know how Drescher had managed to pull that voice off. Sitting in her parkside apartment, perched in her producer’s chair, confidently apportioning her wasabi, Drescher revealed her secret: ��I’m very talented.”

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[sokkas-first-fangirl]

would sheffield and foster share or do the same thing they did to freddie in the dark verse to their own wives (elizabeth, julie, leia)?

They have with Julie and Eliza. Leia is protected by her status and, by the time they meet, Sheffield’s reputation and power has suffered big time

[mrsfreddyeynsfordhill]

Eliza Doolittle’s Without You dress from the Sheffield production of My Fair Lady.

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Monday 17 June 1833

6 ½

1 ¼

from 7 20 to 8 20 arranging portmanteau etc. etc. – then finished dressing and off to the Cromptons at 9 – breakfast there at 9 ¼ 1 ¼ hour at the breakfast table – Miss and the Misses Henrietta and Margaret C- and their brother Robert – then looked at Miss Henriettas’ drawings till 11 ¼ - then ¾ hour at the Duffins – called and sat 1/4 hour with Mrs. Best, and home – heavy rain – took a fly from 10 10 to 3 10 – drove about – Fischer gone to Langton with Norcliffe – Mr. Lawton the protector would not be at home till Saturday – then drove to Mr. Jonathan Greys’ office – not at home – to come to me at 7 p.m. had Eugénie with me to choose stockings at Robinsons’ in Stonegate – left her and went for Mrs Milne who accompanied me to Mrs Barker’s to see poor Eliza Raine - Mrs M- sat in another room while I was 10 minutes with Eliza - her gown made straint waistcoat-wise - kept her eyes shut and would not speak - becoming cross so I came away - thought her thinner in the face than when I saw her last - she is often cross and riotous - curses and swears and makes herself ill with [pagnoin] and keeps the people awake all night - paid off the fly and walked to my lodgings with Mrs. Milne who sat with me till very near 5 - walked home with her – in returning went into a little cooks’ shop in Petergate close to Stonegate and got a roll and large slice of cold roast beef for 4d. (ate it in the kitchen of a clean table cloth) – a very sufficient dinner – had no money – left my umbrella in pawn till borrowed a shilling

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 of Todd the bookseller and got my umbrella and then came home for a shilling and went back and paid Todd – dressed - wrote a ½ sheet note (letter) to ‘Messrs. Kendell and co.’ and 3 pages and ends kind letter of condolence to Mrs. Norcliffe Cumberland house Harrogate on the death of Mrs. Baker the news of which came to Mrs. Best  this morning - mentioned sleeping at Sheffield tomorrow and being at Leamington on Wednesday - would write to IN- soon - heavy rain - Mr. Jonathan Grey came about 7 ¼ and staid till 9 – suggested that I should make Keighley give me a power not only for me to block up his window by building against it but to compel him to block it up when I liked – my will to be remodelled and signed and witnessed at Mr. Jonathan Greys’ office at 11 ½ a.m. tomorrow -  at 9 ½ sent Thomas with my 2 letters as above to the post and I went to Dr. Belcombe - met him in the minister yard - took a little turn - just mentioned  the case of Catherine Rawson I was right to tell her to dig if she was well to let herself alone had tea - when the 2 girls were gone to bed told Mrs. HSB- of my dinner and Dr. B- too who soon came in and at 11 walked home with me – the Germans the people for models anatomical – should see Alexandre and [Sloshs]’ things in London Bond street? – looked over my books etc.  talked to Mrs Milne about Hamlin making him work  study the classics and go to Cambridge  latterly rather flirting but not much  said the longer  δ- lived the better  gave her the carbuncle ring while in the fly obscurely or roundaboutly explained that that stone was the emblem of long and deep feeling alias passion she said she was glad of it  kissed her rather lovingly but not much might go as far as liked but too cautious nowadays – wrote all the above of today till 12 40 at which hour (tonight) F63° - fine morning till one – then clouded over and rain soon after and gleams and heavy showers the rest of the day till after 9 – fair going to and returning from Dr. B-‘s

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Lucky Green Appliances For St. Patrick’s Day + Beyond

Blue Star’s pastel green stove.

Photo courtesy of Blue Star

Recently there has been a surge in new and custom-colored appliances. People are interested in putting their own style on their kitchens and appliances are now a great way to express that. In the last several years there are a variety of new colors being offered by appliance companies. 

This is part of SMEG’s Portofino collection This 36″ Chimney Hood is in Olive Green.

Photo courtesy of SMEG

Janice Costa, President & Founder of KB Designers Network says – “Color was one of the hottest trends we saw among the products launched at KBIS this year, and blues and greens were high on everyone’s wish list, with shades ranging from bold emerald green and deep forest hues to a softer mint green and blended shades of green/blue, or a touch of green added to the ever-popular grey.”

Big Chills olive green refrigerator.

Photo courtesy of House Seven Design and Build

With many people opting for white cabinetry, colored appliances add a fun and whimsical flair to the kitchen. And there are so many colors and shades to choose from.

A pastel green refrigerator by SMEG.

Photo courtesy of SMEG

Color options have changed over the years. The colors of appliances in the 1950s were pastel – pink, mint green, turquoise, pale yellow, and blue. Colors in nature became popular in the 1970s with green, bright green and avocado green, particularly popular in appliances. Harvest gold and burnt orange were also popular in that time period. The 1980s brought several new colors – black, white, indigo, forest green, burgundy, and different shades of browns, tans, and oranges. In all of these periods – some shade of green was in the mix.

True Residential’s refrigerator/freezer 48″ unit in Emerald. It features a Low-E, double pane … [+] thermal glass door featuring a 120-degree stay open feature and an ergonomically designed tubular handle. lighting offers a choice of 14 ambient hues.

Photo courtesy of True Residential

Today, the sky’s the limit on color options for appliances. Many companies are offering a wide variety of colors and several of them are offering custom colors. Green has consistently been in the mix. According to the President of Big Chill Appliances, Hillary Frei – “The color green represents tranquility, which we all wish to achieve in our homes, especially these days. The kitchen, one of the most popular spaces in the home, and most trafficked can often be a jumping-off point for establishing an ambiance or leading aesthetic, making color choice paramount. By using green, whether on appliances, cabinets or else wise, the tone is set toward tranquility and a calm, nature-oriented space.”

BlueStar announced its first ever Color of the Year for 2021, Light Aqua Green, a nature-inspired … [+] hue that invites tranquility and positivity into the home kitchen.

Photo courtesy of BlueStar

According to leading color expert & interior designer Kim Lewis, Kim Lewis Designs, who selected the shade BlueStar color of the year, “As we look forward to 2021, we are craving a color that is fresh and vibrant, but still relatable, compassionate and calming. With so much uncertainty in the past year, our hope is that Light Aqua Green will be unifying, agreeable and secure.”

Big Chill’s retro moss green microwave.

Photo courtesy of Big Cill

BlueStar President Eliza Sheffield says, “Our customer spends a lot of time in the kitchen, experimenting, nurturing and creating. During this past year, there is a heightened feeling that home is a haven, our safe place. No element of home design is as important, or more discussed, or evaluated than color. Color is essential for lifting the spirit and feeding the soul, which is why we offer so many options to inspire any lifestyle or personality. The Light Aqua Green feels both exciting and tranquil, and can easily be used to create a stunning focal point in any home kitchen.”

This is the Geoffrey Zakarian 23L Air Fryer Oven with Aircrisp Technology in Sage

Photo courtesy of Storebound

Small appliances are also showing up in green these days to add a punch of color to the kitchen. For those who just want a small punch of color in their kitchen – there are the small appliances that sit on the counter. They include such items such as small ovens, blenders, toasters and so on.

This pastel green toaster is by SMEG.

Photo courtesy of Armin Zogbaum Photography

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[entangledmuses]

BRIDGERTON MUSES ARE VERY ACTIVE.

Like this for either a starter, or for muses to send you memes, or for a talk about Plot. 

Specify muses.

Muses are....

Daphne Bridgerton Sophie Beckett Kate Sheffield/Sharma- Book and TV version, Diff Fcs so please Specify Genevieve Delacroix Emma Ashwell (OC) Eliza Montgomery (OC)

[deeisace]

????

V confuse,

Finally got my act together and started my research again, but what I found is not very clear :/

So, right, there's this James Buckley, right, he was born in Sheffield in 1830 (about), he's some kind'v grinder (file/machinery) living in Reading f some unfathomable reason

So I'm set to find his parents,

And I check the 1851 and '41 censuses, for Sheffield (he was born and married there, stands to rights he grew up there), which give somewhat different answers

1851, age 21, he's living with his sister Martha and her family, and who are listed as Martha's parents (and must therefore be his, in some manner) - Robert Buckley, a smith born 1800, and Eliza born 1802

1841, the configuration is the same, more or less. Martha and her family next door/room (less kids, being ten years before), and James (age 11) and his parents on the next listing

But this time we have Richard Buckley, a whitesmith born 1796, and Elizabeth born 1801.

The enumerator's handwriting, for once, is very clear in both cases

So. Either there's been some mistake by someone, or

Well the only thing I can think of is that Eliza/Elizabeth married one brother, and after his death, married another

For their having the same last name and all

Happens a lot really, or sometimes anyway - at least once in my own tree, too

Or, well I mean, the 1841 census is just so not detailed, but I does say that Richard and Elizabeth are married, at least, and the '51 one isn't much better, but it also says that Robert and Eliza are married

Oh, oh wait

1851, they've a lodger, an Emma Robson (born 1832, a scissor filer)

I think the 1851 enumerator might've just been iffy on names, cs I'm thinking that's Emma Rollinson - James Buckley married her about 3 months later

Either the census man got it wrong, or the automatic transcription marriage record I can't read the original of (Yorkshire hasn't many church archives scanned and uploaded, I'd have to send away for it, and I'm not cs that don't half cost)

Oh, but, given there's no such person as Emma Rollinson born in Sheffield-ish 1832-ish, I think the enumerator has it right

Marriage records and things can be off sometimes, well, everything can really - the transcription thingy's shite sometimes, and more often is people's handwriting, such that it's not picked up right by the transcription thingy

Good, so now I know she's a Robson I can find her baptism, hopefully

And, idk about the Buckleys at all

Martha's 7 years older than James, but if I can cross-reference baptisms, and check on marriage and death records, I reckon I can find what's going on with their parents, it'll just take a bit