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 
Hembrough also reads aloud unabridged texts of Ross Poldark (on CDs), Jeremy Poldark (just a download) and Black Moon (CDs). Clare Corbett reads the unabridged text of Demelza (alas just a download). I have seen the unabridged texts of Ross Poldark and Demelza read aloud on old audio-cassette series; these are very expensive to buy and, now rare, hard to find.
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