Anne with an E Recap: Episode 7, Season One Finale
Wherever you are is my home
directed by Amanda Topping
Anne and Jerry’s Excellent Adventure (except for the mugging part.)
Is this the new Jane Eyre? How delightful!
“So, like, how’s the gap year going?” Gilbert and Anne meet (oh so coincidentally, Susan-eyeroll) and have a nice talk as well as possible eye flirting.
Easter Egg Hunt, anyone? (post recording thought: maybe Green Gables was perfect because it wasn’t IN Charlottetown?)
Anne and Gilbert have an impromptu spelling bee in the streets of Charlottetown. T-R-U-C-E
Au revoir, see you next season, Jerry! (pleasebeaseason2pleasebeaseason2)
From the Anne of Green Gables Cookbook, Chocolate Goblin’s Food Cake and Caramel Pudding Sauce fail turned Ice Cream Cake success.
Anne with an “E” Reading Challenge:
(all links, unless noted, go to online versions) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte If Thou Must Love Me (Sonnet 14) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Henry and Emma, a Poem Upon the Model of a Nut-Brown Maid by Matthew Prior Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Grasshopper by Mrs. Andrew Dean Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley Pleasures of Hope by Thomas Campbell The Fisherman by Bryan Wallor Proctor (Barry Cornwall) Elsie’s New Relations by Martha Finley the Bible (various verses. Link to KJV because that’s what Anne would have read.) Red: A natural history of the redhead by Jacky Collis Harvey (link to Amazon, it’s not available online) Patient Grisilda by Giovanni Boccaccio Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman David Copperfield by Charles Dickens **new this week** Middlemarch, by George Eliot (And this is the Libby App that Beckett is a huge fan of)See you for Season Two!!
(pleasebeaseason2pleasebeaseason2)
Anne with an E Recap: Episode 6
Remorse is the poison of life
directed by Paul Fox
This episode starts on a high note when Anne saves Minnie May’s life, meets her Designated Mentor, and has her Diana ban lifted… but the bad stuff is coming. (Ken Warner, CBC)
What Premier didn’t get the job because of his good looks? How about Sir John Alexander Macdonald?
Marilla sharing the John she knew with his son, Gilbert who shares the dad he knew. Both are mourning, but Marilla is dealing with some heavy regret.
Billy and the Billyettes…Bud.
“We’ll put that in the shownotes.”
Every week cook a snack from this book, this week’s recipe was Saucy Chicken
This week’s recipe needed a little ooomph.
Kansas City has a lot of great museums, one of them is The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures.
Have you read this yet? Anne seems to have memorized it.
If you want to read Chapter Six of Jane Eyre, by Jane Austen: Chapter Six
The Anne with an E Reading Challenge: (Full list will be on last episode.)
This week we’re adding David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Link goes to Project Gutenberg
Anne with an E Recap, Episode 5
Tightly knotted to a similar string
Or: Love. You use that word but let me show you what it means
Directed by Patricia Rozema
This episode steps us past the halfway point of the series…but it does it in such an outstanding way we can’t help but celebrate. Does it follow along the story of the book? Nope, but we talk about the deviations- Anne’s first period, Matthew’s former crush, a peek into the home life and struggles of Gibert Blythe- and how they were beautifully worked into iconic scenes like Anne’s first tea party and the gift of a grown-up dress with puffy sleeves.
“We’ll put that on the shownotes”
Anne with a Martini: Gritty and Pretty
Recipe:
Marinate one can of Royal Anne Cherries (of course) in two jars, one with chocolate vodka and the other with Amaretto or Triple Sec (a slight different taste), and reserve syrup in a third. Let sit in fridge for at least a few days.
Put as many marinated cherries into glass (for a snack, of course) and shake below with ice
Gritty:
Chocolate’d cherries
2 parts chocolate vodka
1 part marinating liquid
1 part juice from can
Pretty:
Amaretto’d cherries
1 park plain vodka
1 part marinating liquid
1 part syrup
This episode had so much going on! More creepiness from Mr. Phillips, more adorableness from Gilbert, and love was, actually, everywhere.
Love was even here in a roundabout way josch13 pixabay
Say “Yes” to the dress Matthew! Fatherly love
Beckett talked about the Craft Lit podcast, brilliant.
Beckett recommended this movie
BECKETT WAS RIGHT about the Cuthbert kids timeline. Michael was oldest, Matthew was baby.
1833- Michael born
1844- Matthew born
plus 11 (aprox age when Matthew had to leave school)
Michael was about 21 when he mysteriously died.
It feels as though we’ve sent you to the Museum of Menstruation once a month…for years! (It’s not the prettiest of websites but really, that’s fitting, isn’t it?)
To add to the Anne of Green Gables reading list (entire list on last episode)
Song of the Open Road and read more about Walt Whitman (on Shmoop)
Pickled green tomatoes recipes.
And no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention, this episode earned 10 glasses of Raspberry Cordial from both of us.
Episode 90: Q &A 2017
“Would you ever have a fan as a guest host?”
“How on earth do you manage to read so many books so quickly?”
“Do your kids complain about the podcast?”
“How much time do you spend on research and prep a week?”
“What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
(And more…a LOT more.)
For the third time since we began the show in 2011 we put out a call for questions and from that delightful barrage we answered as many as possible in this episode. We talk about a variety of subjects from how we met and The History Chick origin story, to several abstract “what if…,”, details about how we organize and research each episode and give you a little peek into the list where we pick our subjects from. Below you’ll find “We’ll put this on our shownotes” items!
How do I become a podcaster? Beckett broke it down to four things: Technical Aspects, Content, Persistence, Luck. While you’re pretty much on your own with the last three, for the first one, go to Helen Zaltzman’s website and check off her five points in her Adventures in Podcasting. Do NOT let people trick you into courses about the technical aspects of podcasting–there are plenty of successful, veteran podcasters willing to help you for free via posts like Helen’s (another must read is on Jamie Jeffers of The British History Podcast–amazing advice.)
Ben Franklin’s World with Liz Covart
16 Personalities and Typing Fictional Characters are the two sites we suggested during the Myers-Briggs personality test question.
Susan’s blanket fort
Special thanks to James Harper, and his band HARPER for the music in the show!
Anne with an “E” Recap: Episode 4
An Inward Treasure Born directed by David Evans
(Or: Feminism 101)
Honesty is the best not-actually-a-policy, Anne
The whole quote that the title came from goes: I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
Every title is a Jane Eyre quote that Anne must have memorized before she turned to fire safety manuals for reading.
Right from the get go we have to put our thinking caps on! We both agreed that this quote is about doing what you think is right but we disagreed about what it meant specifically in this episode.
Here is the humor article Susan was talking about answering questions with Jane Eyre quotes. Washington Post article about Jane Eyre quotes.
Today’s snack: Susan (‘s daughter) made shortbread and Beckett made Poetical Egg Salad Sandwiches with an “E” because the recipe was only an inspiration for the final product.
We’re cooking our way through this.
If you click just one link from these shownotes (it’s cool, you won’t hurt our feelings– we put this stuff up because people’s interests vary) it should be this delightful look into the creation of the credit sequence–Buzzfeed Here’s How They Made The Stunning “Anne with an E” opening credits.
Here is more work by the artists–Brad Kunkle, and here is more analysis at Exploring Anne Tumblr (May 31st entry has the credit sequence analysis.)
Cordelia song the Tragically Hip, Road Apples 1991
What’s a road apple? Uh…probably not this.
What’s a road apple? Uuuuummm, probably not this, but this is pretty….and smells nice.
(Related: here is a recipe for Dried Apples via Whole Foods) (Distantly related, very distantly related.)
Justification for the scatterbrained set. Elite Daily based on a Time article.
Yeah, that’s a pretty cool light fixture. Three cheers for the design department!
Anne was being strong and bold and questionably smart…the ladies on the Gillis yard freak out because of it. (As they should!)
I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy asking him if he wants a biscuit. (“Have a biscuit, Potter.”)
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a girl trying to get the other girl to notice me. Also, I’m flipping adorable…and chivalrous.
Additions to the Anne with an “E” reading list (entire list will be printed in last episode):
Patient Grisilda (link goes to text of story via pitt.edu)
The Bible, Psalm 78 (Link to NIV version because Susan is a Missouri Synod Lutheran.)
Red: A history of the readhead by Jacky Collis Harvey
Podcast Recommendations!!! Dinner Party Download and The Sporkful.
