The Duchess

If you know me, there's not a period movie I've seen that I didn't like.

Until now.

Mid-movie I shut this off.

Why?
Hard to explain.

As adorable as I think Keira Knightley is- {loved her in Atonement & Silk!!} she's just not the Georgiana I've envisioned and read about.

Georgiana having been a beautiful and intelligent woman, writer and political campaigner with a somewhat large penchant for gambling, but beloved by so many... you just don't get this in the movie.

Unfortunately IRL, she was married to a jerk of a Duke man who had a love affair with her backstabbing little witch she thought a friend and confidante best friend.

I think she was much more than the menage-a-trois...




Sonnet Inscribed To Her Grace The Dutchess Of Devonshire

by Mary Darby Robinson


'TIS NOT thy flowing hair of orient gold,
Nor those bright eyes, like sapphire gems that glow;
Nor cheek of blushing rose, nor breast of snow,
The varying passions of the heart could hold:

Those locks, too soon, shall own a silv'ry ray,
Those radiant orbs their magic fires forego;
Insatiate TIME shall steal those tints away,
Warp thy fine form, and bend thy beauties low:

But the rare wonders of thy polish'd MIND
Shall mock the empty menace of decay;
The GEM, that in thy SPOTLESS BREAST enshrin'd,
Glows with the light of intellectual ray;
Shall, like the Brilliant, scorn each borrow'd aid,
And deck'd with native lustre NEVER FADE!


If you were going to rent this- I'd say, dont waste your time. Rent Pride and Prejudice instead. =)

Happy Saturday!
-Jen