My greatest inspirations:

• Jane Austen
• Charlotte Brontë
• Anne Brontë
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Virginia Woolf
• Emily Dickinson
• Lucy Maud Montgomery
• J.R.R Tolkien
• C.S. Lewis
• Liev Tolstói
• Charles Dickens

To-read:

• Victor Hugo
• Alexandre Dumas
• Ivan Turgenev
• Fanny Burney
• Gustave Flaubert
• George Elliot

Songs that have been inspiring me:

• Beautiful Lies, Birdy
• Saturn, Sleeping at Last
• Sky Full of Song, Florence and the Machine
• Winter Bird, Aurora
• Oceans Brawl, Coeur De Pirate
• The Curse, Agnes Obel
• Carry You, Ruelle
• Hurricane, Fleurie
• Sea Song, Apocalyptica
• Ariel, Anathema
• Another Love, Tom Odell
• Let it all Go, Rhodes feat Birdy
• Blue Rose on a Windowsill, Slow Meadow

Jane Austen ranked by how much I love her books.

I've already read:

• Persuasion
• Pride and Prejudice
• Emma
• Sense and Sensibility
• Mansfield Park
• Northanger Abbey
• Lady Susan
• Jack and Alice

To-read:

• Sanditon
• The Watsons

• London, England
• Yorkshire Dales, England
• Scarborough Beach, England
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• Paris, France
• Zurich, Switzerland
• Lisbon, Portugal
• Corfu, Greece
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Montreal, Canada

• Romancticism, 19th-century
• Victorian Literature, 19th-century
• Realism, late-19th-century
• Symbolism, 19th-20th-century
• Bloomsbury Group, early-20th-century

• Name meaning: gracious, full of grace, mercy
• INFP
• Vegetarian
• History, British & Portuguese Literature
• Period dramas
• Bibliophile
• Astrophile
• Writer
• Autumnal
• Piano songs

• The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkien
• Persuasion, Jane Austen
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• Ana Karenina, Liev Tolstói
• The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
• All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
• Letters from Skye, Jessica Brockmole

The queen of period dramas and my favourite films.

Watched:

• Pride and Prejudice, 2005
• Atonement, 2007
• The Edge of Love, 2008
• Anna Karenina, 2012
• The Imitation Game, 2014
• The Duchess, 2008
• A Dangerous Method, 2011
• Pirates of the Caribbean, 2003-2007

To-watch:

• Doctor Zhivago, 2002
• Silk, 2007
• Colette, 2018
• The Aftermatch, 2019
• The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, 2018

• "You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." ― Jane Austen
• "For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures." ― Virginia Woolf
• "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself." ― Charlotte Brontë
• "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." ― Emily Dickinson

Favourite actors and recommended films.

• Audrey Hepburn: Two for the Road, 1967
• Grace Kelly: To Catch a Thief, 1955
• James Stewart: It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946
• Carry Grant: North by Northwest, 1959
• Bette Davis: All About Eve, 1950
• Ingrid Bergman: Notorious, 1946
• Katharine Hepburn: The Philadelphia Story, 1940
• Joan Fontaine: Rebecca, 1940
• Alain Delon: The Leopard, 1963
• Myrna Loy: The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946
• Vivien Leigh: Gone with the Wind, 1939

• Amadeus, 1984
• Arrival, 2016
• Atonement, 2007
• Dead Poets Society, 1989
• Forrest Gump, 1994
• Frantz, 2016
• Funny Girl, 1968
• Jane Eyre, 2011
• La La Land, 2017
• La Vita è Bella, 1997
• Les Innocentes, 2016
• Phantom Thread, 2017
• Pride and Prejudice, 2005
• Rear Window, 1954
• Roman Holiday, 1953
• Testament of Youth, 2014
• The Artist, 2011
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008
• The Hunger Games, 2012-2015
• The Lord of the Rings, 2001-2003

• Anne with an E (2017-)
• Anzac Girls (2014) miniseries
• Call the Midwife (2012-)
• Downton Abbey (2010-2015)
• How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014)
• Mad Men (2007-2015)
• North and South (2004) miniseries
• Outlander (2014-)
• Sherlock (2010-)
• The Crown (2016-)

• Pathétique, Beethoven
• Gymnopédie No. 1, Satie
• Symphony No. 25, Mozart
• Cello Suite No. 1, Bach
• Clair de Lune, Debussy
• Waltz of the Flowers, Tchaikovsky
• Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2, Chopin
• La Primavera, Vivaldi
• The Swan, Saint-Saëns
• String Sextet No. 1 Andante Ma Moderato, Brahms

• Vincent van Gogh
• Claude Monet
• Louis Marie de Schryver
• Lucien Pissarro
• Thomas Gainsborough
• Élisabeth Sonrel
• John William Waterhouse
• Frederick Carl Frieseke
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Charles Courtney Curran

• Frank Capra
• Billy Wilder
• David Lean
• William Wyler
• Steven Spielberg
• Joe Wright
• Asghar Farhadi
• Anne Fontaine
• Damien Chazelle
• Amma Asante
• Saul Dibb