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Henrik Ibsen's Puphejmo-A Doll's House

Effect vs. Affect

I just came up with a fun way to remember when to use effect or affect.

Think about: Affect-ion

You give affection and are thus effected positively.

Affect is the intrusion or the causation and effect is the solution.

The rain affects the garden by watering it. The garden is effected by the rain.

Affect refers to an action that will/is/has interrupted the previous norm. Effect refers to the act of being influenced by something else

Affect is given onto something

Effect is received from something

When I first read Pride and Prejudice I was 14 and couldn't care less. Now, three years later I find myself completely engrossed in this book. I cannot believe my attachment to Lizzy and Mr Darcy. My overpowering interest in the novel does not cease to surprise me

You weren't born bisexual, you chose to read Pride & Prejudice and fell in love with both Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy

Poem I wrote about eating fundip like two years ago

“Hell is eternal apartness”

- Harper Lee, Go Set A Watchman

Imagine

you have a complete day to yourself.

It would be spent in a giant elegant library on a bench or couch in a secluded area where no one ventures.

Quiet classical music, ambient noice from the calm chaos of the atmosphere. A fire place near by so you can hear the crackling.

Maybe you spend it with one person who will not complain when you ignore their sentient presence and wrap myself around them in a way that you can run my fingers through their hair while you read a stack of books that completely keep my attention from start to finish.

There would be tea. Hot, steamy and perfectly made, chai milk tea, jasmine or green tea with mint. Or rose tea because it smells like hugs. Or maybe coffee or a mug of hot chocolate with a stick of peppermint poking out.

Of course the person with you, whose only purpose is to be quiet and cuddle you, would be the one getting you the mug because you couldn’t be bothered with getting up while you’re reading

Some Mina and Jonathan Harker for the end of spooky season. ♥

Henry Clerval my beloved ♥

Oh to be a heroine in a Jane Austen novel

Wanted to share a sonnet I wrote for class.

The story is that the moon is crashing into the earth and the world is ending. Two lesbians sneak away to watch the world end as they cry and comfort each other.

My favorite sonnet/poem I’ve wrote ever

Doriririan Gray

Since everyone wants to see the connections between The Portrait of Dorian Gray and Izaya Orihara even though his favourite quote is from Lady Windermere I decided to keep that in mind while reading the book and my conclusions are:

Dorian Gray: Mikado Ryugamine

Basil Hallward: Masaomi Kida

Lord Henry: Izaya (BECAUSE NEITHER OF THEM EVER SHUT UP)

Female hands in paintings

whilst studying Hamlet for school you could tell who were studying psychology and/or had a Greek mythology phase and who hadnt by the groans when the teacher brought up the slide tired 'Oedipus complex'

they >>>

𝐹𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝒩𝒶𝓂𝑒:

Eugenie Victoria Helena Brooksbank

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𝐹𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝒯𝒾𝓉𝓁𝑒:

Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena of York, Mrs. Jack Brooksbank

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𝐵𝓸𝓇𝓃:

Friday, March 23rd, 1990 at Portland Hospital in London, England

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𝒫𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈:

Father: His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, The Duke of York

Mother: Sarah Margaret Ferguson, The Duchess of York

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𝒮𝒾𝒷𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈: 

Sister: Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice Mozzi

Brother-In-Law: Thomas Brooksbank

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𝒮𝓅𝓸𝓊𝓈𝑒:

Jack Brooksbank (M. 2018)

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𝒞𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃

Oldest Son: August Philip Hawke Brooksbank (B. 2021)

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𝐸𝒹𝓊𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓸𝓃:

Winkfield Montessori

Upton House School

Independent Coworth Park School

St. George's School

Marlborough College

Newcastle University: Upper Second-Class Honors & Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature & History of Art while also studying Politics. 

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𝐼𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝓈:

Animals:

Bees

Elephants

Exotic Animals

Health:

Cancer

Hospitals

Men’s Mental Health

Nurses

Osteopathy

Scoliosis

People:

Underprivileged Children

Underprivileged Women

Social Issues:

Anti-Slavery

Human Trafficking

Ocean Pollution

Sexual Abuse

Violence Against Women

Sports:

Running

The Arts:

Art Collecting & Selling

Culinary

Female Artists

Photography

Prints & Multiples

Reading

Street Art

Theatre

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𝒫𝒶𝓉𝓇𝓪𝓃𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓈

Ambassador:

Artemis Council of the New Museum

Children in Crisis/Street Child

Project 0/Sky Ocean Rescue

Patron:

Anti-Slavery International

Coronet Theatre

Teenage Cancer Trust

The European School of Osteopathy

The Royal National Orthopedic Hospital’s Redevelopment Appeal

The Scoliosis Association UK

The Tate Young Patrons

Supporter:

The Blue Marine Foundation 

The World Health Organization

The World Run

Work:

Associate Director & Director: Hauser & Wirth

Benefit Auctions Manager: Paddle8

Director: Anti-Slavery Collective

Founder: Anti-Slavery Collective Podcast

Partner: Daisy London Jewelry 

Visitor: Mogo Wildlife Park

Visitor: The Salvation Army

Charity & Work Fun Facts:

In 2008, Princess Eugenie opened a Teenage Cancer Trust unit for young cancer patients in Leeds.

In 2014, Princess Eugenie partnered with Daisy London Jewelry to create a limited edition bracelet to benefit the The Royal National Orthopedic Hospital’s Redevelopment Appeal. 

In 2016, Princess Eugenie, Sara the Duchess of York, & Princess Beatrice had British artist Teddy McDonald create the first ever royal graffiti titled Royal Love. The sale of the art piece, was sold for five figures & the proceeds went to Children in Crisis. That same year, she visited a safe house run by the Salvation Army & met with victims of sexual abuse & modern day slavery.

In 2018, Princess Eugenie spoke at the NEXUS Global Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to discuss ending modern slavery. That same year, she visited ASTRA & ATINA in Serbia which are 2 grantees of the UN Trust Fund to fight against human trafficking & violence against women. 

In 2019, Princess Eugenie & Julia de Boinville launched a podcast to highlight & discuss modern slavery issues. 

In 2020, Princess Eugenie & husband Jack Brooksbank helped The Salvation Army to pack food during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

“His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me I entered bliss.”

– Villette, Charlotte Brontë

“How often, while women and girls sit warm at snug firesides, their hearts and imaginations are doomed to divorce from the comfort surrounding their persons, forced out by night to wander through dark ways, to dare stress of weather, to contend with the snow-blast, to wait at lonely gates and stiles in wildest storms, watching and listening to see and hear the father, the son, the husband coming home.”

– Vilette, Charlotte Brontë

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Yrsa Daley-Ward, from bone; “waiting for the check to clear”

"But you always were wrong: only I can't help loving you."

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

"All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream."

- Edgar Allan Poe

Poems for a summer day:

Emily Dickinson

(my favourite poet)

A something In a summer's day

Summer shower

Further In summer than the birds

As sleigh bells seem In summer

It can't be "Summer"!

Summer for thee, grant I maybe

It will be Summer - eventually

I taste a liquor never brewed (the best poem ever)

The one who could repeat the summer day

What shall I do when the summer troubles

Ourselves were wed one summer - dear

So much summer

I know a place were summer strives

Would you like summer? Taste of ours.

There came a day at summer's full

Her final summer was it

Twice had summer her fair verdure

The trees like tassel - hit and swung by

John Keats

The Human Seasons

On the grasshopper and cricket

Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day

Over hill, over dale - from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Wordsworth

Book Fourth [Summer Vacation]

Daffodils (not about summer, but gives me summer vibes)

The Solitary Reaper (again, not about summer, but gives me summer vibes)

Langston Hughes

Summer Night (not about summer, but brilliant poem)

Pablo Neruda

100 Love Sonnets

Poem XVI

Poem LI

Poem XCII

Charles Baudelaire

L’invitation au voyage

Amalgamation of Poems

(these poems are grouped in amalgamation not because they are in anyway less relevant than the others above, the poems below have not been read by me or had been read long ago.)

Moonlight, Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Brontë

June by John Updike

Love Song, 31st July by Richard Osmond

Apples by Laurie Lee

Warm Summer Sun by Mark Twain

A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carroll

Fireflies in the Garden by Robert Frost

Midsummer, Tobago by Derek Walcott

A Green Thought by Katharine Towers

Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

When we got to the beach by Hollie McNish

Summer Stars by Carl Sandburg

Before Summer Rain by Rainer Maria Rilke

Morningside Heights, July by William Matthews

Miracles by Walt Whitman

Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer night, riverside by Sara Teasdale

The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens

In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar

For once, then, something by Robert Frost

Summer Holiday by Robinson Jeffers

A boy and his dad by Edgar Guest

Long Island Sound by Emma Lazarus

Bath by Amy Lowell

Summer Morn in New Hampshire by Claude McKay

In the Mountains on a Summer day by Li Bai (personal favourite)

Backyard by Carl Sandburg

Idyll by Siegfried Sassoon

If you get there Before I do by Dick Allen

Fishing on the Susquehanna in July by Billy Collins

Indian Summer by Dorothy Parker

Fragment 31 (Jealousy) by Sappho (brilliant poem)

Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Green by Paul Verlaine

From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, quatrain IX

To Natasha by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

[These poems have an aspect of summer and definitely, most of them have addressed deeper issues through the appearance of a beautiful imagery of summer. This has been created from my own reading experience, google websites and recommendations from friends and professors. If you want me to add anything more, leave an ask or comment. Enjoy these beautiful poems and no hate please.]

words by me. an excerpt from the opening chapter of my novel ©/

Coursework

Hi, can some of yous leave recommendation’s for fiction books on/about female obsession

i didn’t realise how much i would love sixth form at a college especially at one where i didn’t think i would ever go.

i also didn’t think english literature would overtake history as my favourite but it has and i am loving it so much! my english teacher is like one from the films! she just wants us to explore everything we can in poems it doesn’t matter what it is she just wants us to really get them! i’m just letting all of weird ideas about them go and she’s like “amazing! i love it!” aaaggh

why didn’t anyone tell me how good english teachers could be ????

(also it’s my 17th birthday today!)