Jenny Allworthy

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About me

Gender Female
Location Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Introduction Canadian anglophile with an interest in period drama, specifically adaptations of Georgian, Regency and Victorian literature. And kind of a history geek too.
Interests 19th century literature, travel, genealogy, period films, chick flicks
Favorite Movies Any Austen adaptation, North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford, "The History of Tom Jones a Foundling", Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Pirate Radio, Miss Potter, Bridget Jones, Brideshead Revisited, Bend it like Beckham, The Duchess, Jane Eyre, The Buccaneers, Knight's Tale, The Way We Live Now, Bright Star, Berkeley Square, Clueless, Daniel Deronda, Lost in Austen, Becoming Jane, Young Victoria, Notting Hill, About a Boy, Impromptu, A Fish called Wanda, Freaky Friday, Calendar Girls, Circle of Friends, Fever Pitch, Two Weeks Notice, Princess Bride, Vanity Fair, Roxanne, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Kate and Leopold, Shakespeare in Love, Finding Neverland, Mama Mia, The Importance of Being Earnest, Music and Lyrics, Death at a Funeral, The Holiday, Valmont, The Full Monty, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Saving Grace, The Full Monty, The Queen, Mrs. Brown, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Room with a View, Titanic, Foyle's War, The Vicar of Dibley, Election, An Ideal Husband, Coupling, It's Complicated, Anne of Green Gables, As Time Goes By, Larkrise to Candleford, Gosford Park, Jane Austen Book Club, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Breakfast Club, The Secret Garden, Amadeus, Ab Fab, Our Mutual Friend, Ever After, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Kinky Boots, Jeeves and Wooster, 500 days of Summer, Peter Pan, Muriel's Wedding, Greenfingers, 10 things I Hate About You, Rear Window, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Favorite Books Pretty much anything from the 19th century