She sets about learning how to work the system to increase her own power, eventually making literal war on her spouse. In “The Great,” Catherine (Elle Fanning) is an eager bride who soon learns that her new husband, Peter III (Nicholas Hoult), is a selfish, irresponsible man-child. So she concocts a scheme with the marriage-averse Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page): they’ll pretend to be smitten with each other to help her attract a better class of suitor and to help him scare his off - although obviously things don’t go quite as planned. It’s not that the characters in these historical retellings swear off marriage, but viewers are able to see the institution as part of a patriarchal system that can be detrimental to women rather than just a romantic end point - in a way that might have eluded observers in the time period being portrayed.įor instance, in Season 1 of “Bridgerton,” Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) wants to marry and have a family, but she wants to choose her own husband rather than have one foisted on her by her mother and oldest brother. Each morning, as he left for the Embassy, I would look around our borrowed flat and it would begin. Installed in a Foreign Office flat in the Marais with my diplomat fiancé Andy, I was white with homesickness.
‘One’s emotions are intensified in Paris,’ Fabrice de Sauveterre tells Linda in The Pursuit of Love, ‘one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place.’ In those first two months of the year, I was very unhappy. Reviewed by Laura Freeman in Slightly Foxed Issue 61. The Pursuit of Love follows the travails of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent Communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice.
Uncle Matthew is the blustering patriarch, known to hunt his children when foxes are scarce Aunt Sadie is the vague but doting mother and the seven children, despite the delights of their unusual childhood, are recklessly eager to grow up. The unconventional Radlett family is viewed through the eyes of their cousin Fanny, who stays with them at their Gloucestershire estate.
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