Three More Days for Submissions For Letter #4

There are three more days to submit your letter to the Period Drama Advice Event's final letter. Submit your letter here.

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Letter #4: Period Drama Advice Event

Here is the final letter for the Period Drama Advice Event. We have just received a letter from a Doctor Harrison (Cranford)*

*Note: This letter was originally written by Miss Laurie from Old-Fashioned Charm for the Jane Austen Advice Column that was apart of Jane Austen Week.

Dear Jane Austen Advice Column,
My name is Frank Harrison. I am a medical doctor and have recently taken up a new post in the small town of Cranford where I assist the elderly Dr. Morgan by attending some of his numerous patients. Cranford is a bit of an oddity where the women reign supreme (not unlike amazons!), careless of new fashions and fearful of change. I've already had to rid my wardrobe of a particularly handsome red jacket because Dr. Morgan told me the ladies of Cranford would think it fanciful. But on the whole I had found the residents of Cranford very welcoming until today when many things unseen to my eye came to a head. Upon my arrival here one of my first visits was to the vicarage where I met Reverend Hutton and his lovely daughter Miss Sophy Hutton. She is an angel! and I was making strides to ask if I might court her when her young brother Walter fell ill and despite all of the methods of modern medicine I applied soon died. You may well imagine what a rift this caused between the young lady and myself and yet I loved her more each day. Quite a few months later Miss Hutton came to trust me again and I was bold enough to ask her father if I might court her. What happiness when he gave his permission! Our courtship was going on so well until this afternoon while attending the town's May festival, it came to the attention of the whole town that two other ladies felt themselves as good as engaged to me! Miss Tompkinson is a spinsterish young lady who lives with her sister in town and though I have attended her many times for palpitations and other maladies I was never aware of having shown her any other interest than that of a doctor to his patient. Likewise Mrs. Rose, who is my widowed housekeeper, seems to think that I have shown signs of love for her, which I never have done! The worst of the matter was seeing my dear Sophy stricken with horror at my supposed unfaithfulness and see her directed away by her father. I am in a state of shock from which I shall not soon recover! Please tell me dear sir or madam, what am I to do!?!
Desperate for advice,
Dr. Frank Harrison


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Letter #3 Voting

Submissions for Letter #3 will no longer be taken. The poll is up and running! Here are the letters to choose from:

Miss Bates (Emma) by Eva-Joy

Elizabeth Elliot (Persuasion) by Charity U*

Emma Woodhouse (Emma) by Charity U*
The Scarlet Pimpernel/Sir Percy Blakeney (The Scarlet Pimpernel) by Miss Dashwood
Philippa Gordon Blake (Anne of Green Gables) by Hayden
Fanny Price (Mansfield Park) by Miss Laurie

Go and vote for your favorites! You have one week to vote!

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Reminder For Letter #3

I notice less traffic on my blog during the weekend, which is why I'm putting out this post. You may now submit responding letters for Letter 3 for the Period Drama Advice Tournament. Submit your letter here

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Letter #3: Period Drama Advice Event

 Here we have our third letter! This letter comes to us from a Miss Amy Dorrit (Little Dorrit).

Dear Period Drama Advice Column,

What should Amy do?

I received a proposal from a dear friend of mine, John Chivery. I refused him because I do not love him. I am very fond of John, but I could never feel that way about him. I wish I could; it distresses me to see him unhappy, but I can't love him -- not in that way, not to be his wife. I would rather stay and look after my father than marry someone I do not love. I hope he will find a good wife one day because he deserves one. I am in love with another man, Arthur Clennam, but he is in love with someone else who I don't know. And now because I refused John, everybody is unhappy or angry with me. What should I do?
Sincerely,
Amy Dorrit

How would your character(s) respond to this letter? When you post your final letter to your blog, make sure you post the link to this post! 


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Letter #2 Poll Closed: Winner Revealed!

The poll for Letter #2 has been closed! Thank you everyone for participating! Here are the results:

Emma Woodhouse (Emma) by Eva-Joy -- 12 votes

Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables) by Jillian -- 14 votes 

Edmund Sparkler (Little Dorrit) by Payton Wilson -- 15 votes

Mrs. Gibson (Wives and Daughters) by Miss Dashwood -- 12 votes

George Wickham (Pride and Prejudice) by Charity U -- 8 votes

Harold Skimpole (Bleak House) by Miss Laurie -- 10 votes

Squire Hamley (Wives and Daughters) by Miss Laurie -- 14 votes

Aragorn (Lord of the Rings) by Alyianna -- 5 votes

Charlotte Lucas (Pride and Prejudice) by Abby) -- 9 votes

Congratulations, Payton Wilson! Please contact me if you would like a small banner or a button, which period drama character you would want on the banner or button, and whether you would want your name/username or blog name on the button.

Letter #3 will be revealed tomorrow! 

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Letter #2: Voting has begun!

The Deadline for submitting responding letters for Letter #2 is closed! The poll for your favorite letter is open at the left sidebar. I also decided to make the poll so that you can select more than one: it can be hard to pick one letter, after all! Here are the letters to chose from:

Emma Woodhouse (Emma) by Eva-Joy

Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables) by Jillian
Edmund Sparkler (Little Dorrit) by Payton Wilson
Mrs. Gibson (Wives and Daughters) by Miss Dashwood
George Wickham (Pride and Prejudice) by Charity U
Harold Skimpole (Bleak House) by Miss Laurie *
Squire Hamley (Wives and Daughters) by Miss Laurie *
Aragorn (Lord of the Rings) by Alyianna
Charlotte Lucas (Pride and Prejudice) by Abby
* In the same post

Go and vote for your favorites!

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Last Day for Entries for Letter 2

Today is the last day to submit responding letters for Letter #2 in The Period Drama Advice Event. If you have a letter you would like to enter, leave the link in the comments here.

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Three More Days for Submissions For Letter #2

There are only three more days left to submit a responding letter for Letter #2. If you have a letter you would like to submit, feel free to leave a comment here with the URL of your post.


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Letter #2: Period Drama Advice Event

The second letter has now come in! This week's letter is from a Mr. Edward Ferrars (Sense and Sensibility).

Dear Period Drama Advice Column,

Mr. Ferrars is perplexed.

I find myself in a predicament. Four years ago, I became secretly engaged to a woman named Lucy Steele, the niece of my tutor in Exeter. I thought myself in love, but it was a foolish, idle inclination on my side. I have recently met my sister's sister-in-law, Elinor, and I like her a great deal. I find myself in love with her, but I cannot break my commitment to Lucy. If I were free, I would tell her that my heart is and always will be hers. Her friendship has been the most important of my life. My mother also wants me to marry the rich Miss Morton with 50,000 pounds: all I want, all I've ever wanted is the quiet of a private life, but my mother wants me distinguished. Do you think I am doing the right thing in keeping my promise to Lucy despite all of this?

Sincerely,

Edward Ferrars

How would your character(s) respond to this letter? When you post your final letter to your blog, make sure you post the link to this post! 


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My Letter for Letter #1 (As Elizabeth Bennet)

Realizing, of course, that the deadline for responding letters for Letter #1 was a week ago (and that voting is over), but I wasn't eligible for entering anyways (I am hosting the event, after all). So I came up with a responding letter for Jane Eyre's letter. Enjoy!


So, as a reminder, here was the letter from Jane Eyre:

Dear Period Drama Advice Column,
I am the governess at Thornfield Hall, the home of Mr. Rochester. When I first met him, he seemed to be very harsh, eccentric, and unconventional, but I now find myself falling in love with him. He has been the only person who I could talk to as an equal. I had not intended to love him: I tried to fight it. He made me love him without looking at me, but he is to be shortly married to a Miss Ingram, a beautiful but subconscious person. I cannot help but love him. I've said that my pupil, Adele, should go to school and that I should seek a new situation, but I cannot bear to leave Thornfield: I have not been trampled on there; I have not been petrified; I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic and high. What shall I do?
Sincerely,
Jane Eyre

And here is Elizabeth Bennet's (Pride and Prejudice) response:

Dear Miss Eyre,
How abominably ill this Mr. Rochester has treated you! You are much more temperate than I would be in your situation. You have every reason in the world to think ill of him. He has been very dishonest -- for dishonesty I must call it. I beg your pardon, but one knows exactly what to think of him. He could not make you happy, and I am convinced that you are the last woman in the world who could make him so. What you saw in him was only the appearance of goodness. You must forget him and promise yourself never to dance with him. But perhaps, if you have very good luck, you may meet with another Mr. Rochester in time.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)


Letter #2 will be up tomorrow! Anyone want to take a guess who will be writing the next letter?

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