xix century – Pagina 2 – persephone's corner

I want to be what you are, see what you see, love what you love.

Winona Ryder as Mina Murray / Elisabeta

“I’m an alienist. That is a doctor. But instead of looking to cure a disease of the body, I look to help those who suffer from an illness of the mind. Sometimes society looks upon people as crazy. It may only mean that they are alienated from their own true natures.”
└ The Alienist premieres January 22nd on TNT

aryastarktheshewolf:

The Alienist appreciation costumes

↳ Sara Howard in 1.04

dianasofthemyscira:

“Swifts on a fine morning in May, flying this way, that way, sailing around at a great height perfectly happily. Then… Then one leaps onto the back of another, grasps tightly, and forgetting to fly, they both sink down and down in a great, dying fall, fathom after fathom, until the female utters…” Yes?
Becoming Jane (2007) dir. Julian Jarrold

in-love-with-movies:

Little Women (USA – Canada, 1994)

loveofromance:

North & South (2004)

requested by anonymous

wishfulromancing:

I know my daughters will fight their bosom enemies bravely and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them, I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.

Little Women (2017) – Episode One

extracelestial:

a few pages from the 19th century diary of miss elizabeth aveling. i don’t know who she was or where she was from, but holding her diary of sketches and daydreams was transcendent.

life in a bookshop, no. 20
photo by celeste noche

e-ripley:

Victor Frankenstein (2015) dir. Paul McGuigan

vivien-leigh:

“She was one of the most beautiful creatures I have ever met, but her beauty was much enriched by her vitality.” -Sir Ralph Richardson on Vivien Leigh