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featherxquillOr, Angie is feeling a bit bored and trying to write a crazy pairing fic which is hard (thanks, Tet! :P) and is thus amusing herself by posting a picspam of Agnes Moorehead combined with details from Muriel's life.
Muriel Prewett, born in 1890, is the eldest child of Cadwell and Cynthia Prewett, a pureblood couple with their home in Cumbria. They are comfortable but not rich. The family home, inherited by Cadwell, sits on local graphite deposits, and the family income comes mostly from the mining and sale of these deposits to muggle pencil-makers. Muriel grows up knowing that she will need to find a suitable marriage in order to ensure their family's prosperity. Her younger brothers are Ignatius and Jon. The former will marry Lucreitia Black and be swallowed by pureblood fascist ideology. The latter will become grandfather to Molly.
1914: Muriel Beamish, nee Prewett, poses for the society pages of The Daily Prophet. Recently married to David Beamish, son of renowned Goblin Rights activist Oswald Beamish, the Slytherin alumnus has leapt into her role as a woman of wealth and influence.
Wearing the goblin-made tiara that was given to her by her father-in-law on her wedding day.
The young wife, preparing for one of the many social functions hosted at her home.
Bright, social and opinionated, Muriel enjoys her status as a member of society. She is often escorted to parties and events by her father-in-law. Charismatic, charming and long a widower, he has a great deal of affection for his daughter-in-law.
Reading a report penned by the Witches' Farming Initiative, of which she is a member. In wartime England, The Witches' Farming Inititative organises the buying and running of farmland, to reduce magical Britain's reliance on Muggle meat and produce. As a reault of their effort, Britain's magical community feels the effects of the Wall Street crash far less than their Muggle neighbours.
Muriel's marriage to David is not volatile, more strangely quiet. He is a bookkeeper at Gringotts, and endlessly absorbed in his work, and she becomes more and more involved in society and causes. At one point, she doesn’t even catch sight of her husband for three days, at which point Muriel realises that something is slipping. In the hope that it will bring them closer together again, Muriel stops taking her contraceptive potion, and is soon pregnant. Her son, Gary, is born in January 1922.
1925 - The newest member of the Hogwarts Board of Governers. Her son is just five years old, but Muriel is already interested in the running of the place where he will go to school.
1932 - Oswald Beamish dies. Muriel is inconsolable, tearful and loud. David retreats into his books.
Muriel and David's marriage, temporarily revived after the birth of their son, grows ever more distant after Oswald's death and the start of Gary's Hogwarts education. Muriel begins to socialise again, and they see little of each other.
1938 - Muriel and David Beamish divorce. Gary, always bookish and quiet like his father, believes his mother’s obsession with society is what drove their family apart. He moves out of home shortly after graduation.
Some years later, in the arms of another man, Muriel feels a glimmer of something akin to the lov she felt, not for her husband, but for her father-in-law. It is at this point she realises that it was never David she was in love with, but Oswald. This is a defining moment for her, a realisation that is both beautiful and bleak. She is forced to acknowledge her own blindness, and the damage that did to her, her husband and her son. The loss and gain of self-knowledge is so great that the wand she has been using since she was eleven years old stops responding to her.
After brief stints working at bookkeeping in wizarding shops, then in the Ministry’s budgeting department, Gary becomes fed up with the politics and closed nature of the wizarding world, and takes a job as a muggle accountant. There, he meets and marries a muggle woman. Muriel is so appalled that she doesn’t speak to him for four years.
Being made a grandmother beings her round. The relationship between mother and son is still tense, though, she doesn't see much of him.
As she ages, Muriel enjoys:
Being an obstinate and demanding old woman.
Playing chess.
Getting her own way.
Muriel has now lived 108 years, and although she might threaten that she could die at any moment, and if you don't give her your chair/a refund/whatever she wants, she might, just to spite you, she doesn't plan on it any time soon.
Muriel Prewett, born in 1890, is the eldest child of Cadwell and Cynthia Prewett, a pureblood couple with their home in Cumbria. They are comfortable but not rich. The family home, inherited by Cadwell, sits on local graphite deposits, and the family income comes mostly from the mining and sale of these deposits to muggle pencil-makers. Muriel grows up knowing that she will need to find a suitable marriage in order to ensure their family's prosperity. Her younger brothers are Ignatius and Jon. The former will marry Lucreitia Black and be swallowed by pureblood fascist ideology. The latter will become grandfather to Molly.
1914: Muriel Beamish, nee Prewett, poses for the society pages of The Daily Prophet. Recently married to David Beamish, son of renowned Goblin Rights activist Oswald Beamish, the Slytherin alumnus has leapt into her role as a woman of wealth and influence.
Wearing the goblin-made tiara that was given to her by her father-in-law on her wedding day.
The young wife, preparing for one of the many social functions hosted at her home.
Bright, social and opinionated, Muriel enjoys her status as a member of society. She is often escorted to parties and events by her father-in-law. Charismatic, charming and long a widower, he has a great deal of affection for his daughter-in-law.
Reading a report penned by the Witches' Farming Initiative, of which she is a member. In wartime England, The Witches' Farming Inititative organises the buying and running of farmland, to reduce magical Britain's reliance on Muggle meat and produce. As a reault of their effort, Britain's magical community feels the effects of the Wall Street crash far less than their Muggle neighbours.
Muriel's marriage to David is not volatile, more strangely quiet. He is a bookkeeper at Gringotts, and endlessly absorbed in his work, and she becomes more and more involved in society and causes. At one point, she doesn’t even catch sight of her husband for three days, at which point Muriel realises that something is slipping. In the hope that it will bring them closer together again, Muriel stops taking her contraceptive potion, and is soon pregnant. Her son, Gary, is born in January 1922.
1925 - The newest member of the Hogwarts Board of Governers. Her son is just five years old, but Muriel is already interested in the running of the place where he will go to school.
1932 - Oswald Beamish dies. Muriel is inconsolable, tearful and loud. David retreats into his books.
Muriel and David's marriage, temporarily revived after the birth of their son, grows ever more distant after Oswald's death and the start of Gary's Hogwarts education. Muriel begins to socialise again, and they see little of each other.
1938 - Muriel and David Beamish divorce. Gary, always bookish and quiet like his father, believes his mother’s obsession with society is what drove their family apart. He moves out of home shortly after graduation.
Some years later, in the arms of another man, Muriel feels a glimmer of something akin to the lov she felt, not for her husband, but for her father-in-law. It is at this point she realises that it was never David she was in love with, but Oswald. This is a defining moment for her, a realisation that is both beautiful and bleak. She is forced to acknowledge her own blindness, and the damage that did to her, her husband and her son. The loss and gain of self-knowledge is so great that the wand she has been using since she was eleven years old stops responding to her.
After brief stints working at bookkeeping in wizarding shops, then in the Ministry’s budgeting department, Gary becomes fed up with the politics and closed nature of the wizarding world, and takes a job as a muggle accountant. There, he meets and marries a muggle woman. Muriel is so appalled that she doesn’t speak to him for four years.
Being made a grandmother beings her round. The relationship between mother and son is still tense, though, she doesn't see much of him.
As she ages, Muriel enjoys:
Being an obstinate and demanding old woman.
Playing chess.
Getting her own way.
Muriel has now lived 108 years, and although she might threaten that she could die at any moment, and if you don't give her your chair/a refund/whatever she wants, she might, just to spite you, she doesn't plan on it any time soon.
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Date: 2010-05-30 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-31 12:05 pm (UTC)Btw, yay for Beholder Friends! *\o/*
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Date: 2010-05-30 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-31 12:02 pm (UTC):D
Hee, yes. It could be heaps of fun! Someone should totally do Judi Dench as... well, there is some debate. Ausguta, or Wilhelmina, or Amelia *g*.
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Date: 2010-05-30 02:53 pm (UTC)Any time, dear!
*happy bunny dance, part the third*
Lovely picspam! I confess I'd only ever heard of Agnes Moorehead around here. I'd seen this red-haired 1960s lady with the subtle eyeshadow around in icons and such, so now you finally got me curious: who is that character when she's not grandma Muriel?
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Date: 2010-05-31 10:38 am (UTC)This not-knowing Agnes Moorehead is a sad state of affairs and must be rectified *g*.
The chracter with the 'subtle eyeshadow' (lol), is Endora, the immortal witch mother-in-law. IMO, the best TV mother-in-law of all time. I'm sure the Wiki article will tell you everything you need to know about her.
You can find plenty of Bewitched on Youtube, too, but one of my favourite scenes is here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMe-m1374Ts). I uploaded it a while ago, when the innuendo slayed me. The horse is Darrin, Samantha's husband. He was made that way by Maurice, the dapper Enligh gent (who is Samantha's father), for some minor insult (Maurice and Endora both have a bit of a temper, and Darrin never knows when to STFU, so he's always getting spells cast on him or being turned into things, which often interferes with his ability to be a brght, clever young advertising man). Endora and Maurice are... well, not divorced - I don't think they were allowed to say that word on TV in America in the 1960s - but they don't live together, and clearly have a very open relationship. So yes. Some background for the clip.
As for the actress herself, well. She was a grand old Hollywood dame, really - started out in radio, made the transition to film. Was good friends with Orson Welles (she played the mother in 'Citizen Kane'). Primarily a character actress, I've only seen one film in which she had the starring role. Married and divorced twice, quite possibly a lesbian.
Even if she wasn't, the studios certainly played on the rumour, so there are a whole lot of gloriously femslashy pics like this (http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn19/WadeBallard/AGNES%20MOOREHEAD%20MOTION%20PICTURES/scan0031.jpg), and this (http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj296/nadine62/EleanorParker32.jpg), and this (http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll368/featherxquill2/agnesm.jpg).
And see my latest post, which I'll put up shortly, for a few videos of an extremely awesome villainess she won an Emmy for, links to which I have been meaning to post for EONS.
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Date: 2010-05-31 05:45 pm (UTC)That one picture looks so much like taken right out of Maidens in Uniform it's scary...
*off to youtube*
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Date: 2010-05-31 12:03 pm (UTC)Btw, yay for Beholder Friends! *\o/*
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Date: 2010-05-31 12:35 am (UTC)