Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson), inquiring at Trenwith for Elizabeth
Those who are left are different people trying to lead the same lives … Demelza to Captain MacNeil (Warleggan, Bk 1, Ch 4)
There’s no to-morrow. It doesn’t come. Life’s an illusion. Didn’t you know. Let us make the most of the shadows … Ross to Elizabeth (Warleggan, Bk 3, Ch 5)
Dear friends and readers,
For the second season of the new Poldark I’ve put all my blogs on Ellen and Jim have a blog, two. Since the matter is historical fiction and films set in the 18th century, it might be of interest to my readers here. Thus I’ve decided to put the handy list I make at the end of each season of a mini-series for the Poldark matter on Austen reveries.
I make the list this time for more than the convenience of anyone interested in these historical adaptation films. I’ve embarked upon a “discovery” exploration time for myself. I’m looking to see if I want to and can write a literary biography of Winston Graham: his life and work. I’ve begun by rereading his A Memoirs of a Private Man.
So as a help to myself too, I here gather together in one place my blogs written for the second season of the new Poldark series; the two papers I’ve written and delivered at 18th century conferences on the books and mini-series thus far; the handy list for the first season and a course I taught on the novels two years ago; my website pages for all Winston Graham’s novels.
I’m just now enjoying listening to the Graham’s fourth novel read aloud on CDs: Warleggan by Oliver Hembrough. Hence the opening quotations.
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Dwight Enys (Luke Norris) talking late into the night with Ross
The new series, the 2nd season:
The new Poldark, 2nd season, disconcerting news
Poldark and Outlander: Horsfield scripts; problematic parallels in attitudes on rape and violence towards women
The new Poldark (2015): the first season, looking at the scripts
2 Poldark 1-3 (as seen on BBC): a different emotional temperature
2 Poldark 4-5 (as seen on BBC): concentration on exemplary and tragic heroism
2 Poldark 6-7: Mourning; Fierce struggle to survive; rescued from ambush
2 Poldark 8-9: a marriage strained beyond endurance; parallel conflicted sex scenes
2 Poldark 10: Reconciliation and Forbearance, Finale
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Verity (Norma Streader) saying goodbye to Blamey after his duel with Frances Poldark (1975 mini-series)
Two talks on the Poldark novels and comparing the two film adaptations 40 years apart
“‘I have a right to choose my own life: Liberty in the Poldark novels
Poldark Rebooted: 40 Years on
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Ross (Aidan Turner), last episode, first season
A handy list of blogs for the first season and a course taught around that time:
Emma Marriot’s Companion: The World of Poldark
Poldark: the new incarnation, a handy list
Winston Graham’s Poldark, Cornwall and other books
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Dwight and Caroline Penvenen’s wedding, shot on location in Cornwall
Website pages
The Poldark series and other fiction and non-fiction by Winston Graham
A Bibliography of all Graham’s books and books on Cornwall and related areas
Bronze age tomb in Cornwall
Ellen
Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two 