Friday Favorite: It’s Raining (Period Drama) Men

06 Friday Mar 2015

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Amazing Grace, Casanova, Elizabeth Gaskell, Emma, Jane Austen, North and South, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Philip Pullman, Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, The Shadow in the North, Wives & Daughters

It’s still very much the depths of winter here in Michigan, so our Favorite this week is reminder that warmer weather is on its way. That it includes a healthy dose of Georgian, Regency, and Victorian men is purely coincidence 😉

Clips used by the video’s creator include:

Amazing Grace 2006
Casanova 2005
Emma 1996
Northanger Abbey 2007
North & South 2004
Persuasion 2007
Pride & Prejudice 1995, 2005
Sense & Sensibility 1996, 2008
The Shadow in the North 2007
Wives & Daughters 1999

Friday Favorite: Gotta Be Somebody

03 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Cora Lee in Friday Favorites

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Emma, Gotta Be Somebody, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Nickelback, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility

This week’s Favorite might seem like an incongruous pairing…until you watch the video.

Jane Austen movies + Nickelback = Awesome-ness 😀

Friday Favorite: Emma’s Love Story

17 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by Cora Lee in Friday Favorites

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Emma, Jane Austen, Jonny Lee Miller, Romola Garai

Our Friday Favorite this week is what I like to call “modern music for historical romance”. It’s the story of Jane Austen’s Emma and her Mr. Knightly, set to the music of Taylor Swift’s Love Story. That might sound like an incongruous pairing, but it totally works. Take a look!

For more period drama set to modern music, check out my Pinterest board on the subject.

Friday Favorite: Jonny Lee Miller

16 Friday Aug 2013

Posted by Cora Lee in Friday Favorites

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Austen in August, Byron, Emma, Jane Austen, Jonny Lee Miller, Mansfield Park, Romola Garai, Sherlock Holmes

He currently stars as a modern-day, just-out-of-rehab Sherlock Holmes in the TV series Elementary. He’s had a variety of roles in shows like Dexter and East Enders. He even appeared in a Brother Cadfael mystery.

So what does actor Jonny Lee Miller have to do with Regency romance? He seems to have a knack for playing an Austen gentleman–which is why he’s our Friday Favorite this week 😀

He’s been in two different adaptations of Mansfield Park, in 1983 as Charles Price and in 1999 as Edmund Bertram.

In 2003, he played the title role in the movie Byron.

And in 2006, he played Mr. Knightly in the BBC miniseries Emma. The clip below is one of my favorite parts of the series, with Romola Garai as Emma Woodhouse.