kellyfaircloth
Kelly Faircloth
kellyfaircloth
Senior Editor at Jezebel, specializing in books, royals, romance novels, houses, history, and the stories we tell about domesticity and femininity. Resident Windsor expert.

Just a couple of notes on sources:

I’m confident the house comes with a battalion of ghost governesses. Read more

wow, I played myself this time (especially embarrassing considering I was in fact thinking of my own coffee cup from the Jane Austen Centre) (which is like this one but a tad different) Read more

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Oh my God I couldn’t find “All Aboard! The Country Bus” but I did find THIS.

Another woman who’s fucking done:

The YouTube video is the 1970 version with a 1986 intro, I believe! Read more

theoretically..... because it’s on your walk to work and you can only eat Chop’t so many times in one week and Seamless in the neighborhood where you work has too many options so it’s overwhelming Read more

PS: If you’re the type to put off the movie until reading the book don’t worry in this case because there’s an entire third act to Fingersmith that Handmaiden omits (I liked it, but if they’d included the movie would’ve been 7 million hours long). Read more

ps if somebody could recommend an entertaining, popularly written cultural history of soap operas that would be great, thanks! Read more

My bad! The mistake has been corrected, thanks for the catch. Read more

Bobby’s off this week! Sometimes they do release us into the wild (briefly). Read more

Seconding that The Bishop’s Wife is amazingly WTF. DO BETTER, DAVID NIVEN. Good house they live in, though. Read more