POV: You’re a fictional character living in Edwardian era and you’re in ”Anne at the Green Gables”, but only you’re Diana Barry.
You’ll get to live that cottage core dream life
Without having to spend too much time outdoor doing chores or farm works.
You’re still as closest to Mother Nature as ever.
That era is the crossover of the Victorian and Edwardian period.
You’ll be busy learning the absolute social etiquette a young lady must know, practicing routines and routines of maintaining your wisdom and beauty solely to entertain your father’s guests.
You’ll surround yourself with the best silk and finest laces, your dresses the most elegant and impressive.
You yourself the shiniest diamond of every ball.
Chin up, shoulders back, and always put a sweet smile on.
Put it on like a mask, as you should. For you’re a tiny little delicate flower put out on display.
Like the daisies that stay perfectly put in you mother’s expensive Chinese vases on the corridor. Like how the sunflowers depend on sunlights to rise up every morning. You, your future, your happiness and fortune, all depend on the household in which you’re residing at.
You might as well be another of that pretty delicate expensive Chinese porcelain doll that no one would want to play with. So delicate and expensive that they’d only take out of the cupboard sometimes, on few occasions they’d like to impress the most important guests expected at the house.
Underneath all the fine dresses, exquisite laces, delicate fragrant powder and expensive foreign perfume, you’re still flesh and bones very human, with layers and layers of so much wants and needs, but only very little to ask.
So much that it wears you out most of the time. So much that sometimes it gets so lonely you almost forgot why you existed, what you’re living breathing for.
But still, you always have the attic, all alone to yourself. Here you can dream the wildest dreams, write the longest, wildest, strangest stories, and carry out the biggest innovative experiments without anyone ever complaining or questioning your actions. Cause to them it’s just another dusty old place that most souls wouldn’t wander, most lights wouldn’t crack through.
Anyways this era is still one that has witnessed so many miraculous changes in human history. The birth of so many great big movements such as feminism, human rights, science innovations invaluable for generations of generations to appreciate. And if you happen to be another one of Diana Barrys, live, breathe, feel it all, soar free! Nothing and no one could ever demand to clip your wings, once you yourself are so willing to fly.
