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The Scarlet Pimpernel Trivia Quiz
Leave your answers in a comment, and on Monday I shall publish the correct answers, and whoever won will receive honor, fame and glory. You know how quizzes work.Scoring is as follows: 1 point for...
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Masked Cast Interviews: Arthur Clifford (Paul Reynard)
Arthur Clifford plays Paul Reynard in Masked. (Paul's character is based on Citizen Armand Chauvelin.)From his bio on our website--Arthur found acting later in life, but at the age of 33 started to...
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Masked Cast Interview: Michael Reiser
Michael Reiser plays Tony Dewhurst in Masked. (Tony's character is based on Lord Anthony Dewhurst. Like you couldn't have figured that out...)From his bio on our website--Michael Reiser considers the...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel Trivia Quiz Answers
Books and Movies1. What color is Marguerite’s hair in the books?Auburn, red-blonde, and golden are all acceptable answers. Because we get all of those from the fickle and ever-changing Baroness. :P2....
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"I have returned. To haunt you."
Hello, PEEPS! It is ME! I am not DEAD! Did you MISS ME?I have only lost about twenty followers in the time I've been gone. Impressive. Thanks to all who stayed. One of my New Year's resolutions is to...
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An Update, a Recap and a Temporary Shutting-Down
First of all, a merry Christmas to each of you!And now... a new year approacheth.2015 is nearly over, that is, as you all know if you don't live under a rock under a rock under aNOTHER rock, and even...
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The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading a work.~C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism Okay, NOW I've returned to...
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Another Really Short Post (I'm On a Roll Here)
At this rate I could post, like, two or three times a week (LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS) and not even break a sweat. Wow. *takes notes for later*Anyway, the sole purpose of this one is to let you know I've...
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The January Book Round-Up
I realize that saying I'm going to make this a monthly institution is like saying that I'm going to get up at 5 AM every day-- in other words, a million little pieces of the universe will conspire...
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That Really Long-Delayed Post About Stories and the People Who Make Them
My first real movie crush was on Nicholas Hammond as Friedrich von Trapp in The Sound of Music. I was nine, he was fourteen (the character, at least), and he was fictional and I was real, so the...
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An Ode to Tea
"No coffee, thank you, for me -- never take coffee. A little tea, if you please."-Miss Bates, EmmaOkay, I kind of lied. This post is not going to be an Ode. In order for an Ode to be happening, there...
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Les Miserables: What They Were Really Thinking
All accurate quotations taken from the Complete Symphonic Recording libretto, aka The Whole Doggone Thing (The Actual Musical, That Is). All inaccurate mumbo-jumbo is from mine own weird brain....
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Voyage Into Sewing Blogging
"Charles, I SAID tell me when you are READY to take the picture, and not ONE SECOND BEFO--"I don't blog very much about sewing here anymore, but I am planning to change that.Actually, I don't blog very...
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Victorian Silverado Corset, Part I
Otherwise entitled, In Which I Post Pictures of Underwear on a Public Blog, Thereby Scandalizing the Good Ladies of Cranford and Corrupting the Eyes of All Children Present.So, backstory. (Yes. I do...
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A New Venture (again!)
I'm good at new ventures lately, apparently. And good at not following through with the last one I posted... ahem.At any rate, check this out. :D Melody and I are starting a vlog series, for a very...
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Hidden Figures (2016): The First Movie Review On This Blog In Basically Forever
"There are twenty bright, highly capable Negro women in the west computing group, and we're proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And...
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Summer Adventures, Book-Learnin', and That One Song From South Pacific
Once upon a time, there was a girl who wrote a blog, and she was very diligent in the writing thereof, and there were lots of posts, and lots of followers, and lots of comments, and lots of friends,...
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Our Past Matters.
This morning, I wrote something akin to a blog post on Facebook, and after a little consideration I decided to share it here as well. Political commentary doesn't generally fit in too well with the...
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Eight Reasons Why A New "Dark" Pride and Prejudice Isn't What We Need
I first discovered Pride and Prejudice in the summer of 2009. I was fresh out of eighth grade, gearing up for high school, starting to tire of the 101 books in the Saddle Club series and frustrated...
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How to Plan a Wedding, by the Ladies and Gentlemen of Period Drama
(I would have made a nicely formatted textual image with the words "How to Plan a Wedding, Period Drama Style" to head off this post but PicMonkey is now demanding money in return for their previously...
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The New Location
viaWell, the time has come at last... Yet Another Period Drama Blog is closing its doors. (I had to jump right into that or I might have a hard time saying it.) You probably saw this coming quite a...
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What Are You Still Doing Here?
(photo for clickbait)Yes, you! I can see you! I still have access to this blog, you know. I see the stats. I see the traffic sources. I see the comments on old posts. (I read every single one.)But I...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel Blog Party Tag
Really, what is a blog party without a tag, eh? Please feel free to copy these questions onto your own blog, and leave a comment below with the link to your answers. That way we can all see...
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Masked Cast Interviews: Isabella Rovirosa
Isabella Rovirosa plays Suzanne James in Masked. (Suzanne's character, for the curious, is based partly on Armand St. Just and partly on Suzanne de Tournay in the original novel.) From her bio on...
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