The Dauntless Damsels

This blog is dedicated to our fandom of the great Mark Ferguson and the great Ioan Gruffudd, our favorite actors. We will also post about the stories we are working on, our favorite books, authors, movies, music, and anything else we love and adore. Cheers!

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I'm also a usually quiet, reserved Lady, who enjoys books, tea, baking, and movies! I spend most of my time reading one of my favorite books or wishing I was reading my favorite books. My Grand Passion is history, particularly the Regency Period in England, when Jane Austen wrote, Lord Nelson defeated the French Fleet at Trafalgar, the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon, and men were Gentlemen and women Ladies. I cherish the thought of being a Lady and love manners, being proper, and having proper tea. My favorite tea is Twinings, especially Earl Grey or Prince of Wales. My specialty to make is Scones with Devon Cream. I am a Catholic and a Conservative.

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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Alas! Woe is me!

*Faints* Alas, sad news (well, happy for them).

From The Independent:

It is turning into a good year for the up-and-coming star Alice Evans.

As well as having received a marriage proposal from her actor boyfriend, Ioan Gruffudd, she has landed a plum role in a new BBC series.

The impressionist Alistair McGowan is producing the series called The Gourmayo Murder Mysteries, which starts this spring.
Digital Spy: Ioan Gruffudd to wed long term lover---

Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd will marry his long term lover Alice Evans this year.

The Welsh actor proposed in style this New Year's Eve with a diamond ring slipped into his girlfriend's mojito cocktail.

Evans says: "It took me an hour to say yes. We were in a bar. I'd had a few and I was on a bit of a rant about the state of the world.

"I could see Ioan going whiter and whiter. I said, 'Do you fancy another?', then looked down and was like, 'Oh my God!'

"He said, 'How could you miss it? It's about the size of an aeroplane.'"
Despite shedding a some tears, Best Wishes, Alice! Congratulations, Ioan!

Monday, January 09, 2006

D'arcy Wentworth who?

This is quite interesting . . . to me, at least. Jane Austen is my absolute favorite author (and Georgette Heyer, who is mentioned, is another of my favorites). Fitzwilliam Darcy is one of the greatest characters in the history of novels. Lovely.

From the Jane Austen Centre Online Magazine: D'Arcy Wentworth: Heroic Inspiration?

Jane Austen's Aunt was once at risk of transportation to Botany Bay for shoplifting. It is piquant that Austen named two of her major male characters Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion, because a leading inhabitant of New South Wales in those years was D'Arcy Wentworth, disreputable but acknowledged kinsman of Lord Fitzwilliam. D'Arcy Wentworth's career smacks more of Georgette Heyer than Jane Austen, since he was a highwayman four times acquitted. Rather than push his luck further, he went, a free man, as assistant surgeon with the Second Fleet in 1790. As a young teenager Jane Austen may have read about him in the Times.

Remembered in Australian history, his origins somewhat fudged, as father of the better-known W.C. Wentworth, D'Arcy turns out to be a complex and significant character. All his life he was an outsider. Born in Ireland in 1762, he was the youngest son of a Protestant innkeeper whose family had come down in the world. D'Arcy qualified as an assistant surgeon in London, but then gravitated to vice and crime; through flash arrogance, Ritchie thinks, rather than a self-destructive urge.
Read more about D'arcy Wentworth and family here.

I saw the newest version of Pride & Prejudice during Christmas break. You can read my thoughts here.

(Cross-posted at A Lady's Ruminations)

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Which Character from Pride and Prejudice Are You?

Congratulations,
you're Mr. Darcy! Though you seem reserved or
aloof in public, once people see the real you,
they can't find a single bad thing to say. You
should be yourself more often! Also, like your
counterpart Elizabeth, you tend to jump to
conclusions about people, so avoid those
preconceived notions and happiness shall be
yours! Please invite me to Pemberley
sometime...


Which Character from Pride and Prejudice Are You?
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