Lady Ferry by Sarah Orne Jewett

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  • Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024

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  • @oldladybast5292
    @oldladybast5292 2 года назад +5

    Brought tears. Wonderful and new to me.

  • @mariameere5807
    @mariameere5807 3 года назад +19

    You are spoiling us! I promise I won’t leave too long a message after!🦋😉 A female author from the Victorian period!! Yay 😁

    • @stardust949
      @stardust949 3 года назад +4

      I agree!

    • @mariameere5807
      @mariameere5807 3 года назад

      @@stardust949 ☮️

    • @mmeduvennet3316
      @mmeduvennet3316 2 года назад

      I agree with Maria et al☺️ I love these ghost stories listening from Southern California🎭 I am a stage actor and I always stay up late and listen to these after midnight my time 3 hours ahead of Easter n.

  • @franken-pattern
    @franken-pattern 2 месяца назад +2

    Is there anything better than chilling with a classic tale told by the master storyteller, Tony Walker? I think not! 🎉

  • @stardust949
    @stardust949 3 года назад +16

    I agree with Maria Meere---two stories in one day? Exceptionally kind...thanks so much. I can't listen to the whole story now----just the introduction. Time to start supper here, but I'm looking forward to listening to the rest.

    • @mariameere5807
      @mariameere5807 3 года назад

      You will love it Angel! It’s great, I really enjoyed it! Thank you Tony, I think this is definitely one of the top five RUclips channels!

  • @ImCarolB
    @ImCarolB 3 года назад +7

    One of my favorite authors, a marvellous story, and a great reading. I'm a Vermonter, recently moved to far eastern Maine. Accents are squeezed into smaller areas in N.E. than in other parts of the country. The people here speak much like the old folks did when I was a child, over 60 years ago. I recently sold an old car for parts, and one looker said, "Oh, it's a patska". I have to get used to this again. It's Ber-wick here.

    • @julierobinson3633
      @julierobinson3633 6 месяцев назад +1

      I guess it's like Birming-HAM, as opposed to the British Birmingum.
      If there is a Keswick anywhere in the US I'd bet it's pronounced Kes-wick, not Kezzik...

  • @wmnoffaith1
    @wmnoffaith1 3 года назад +1

    I really, really love this story; very different from the usual. Excellent.

  • @4444marla
    @4444marla Год назад +4

    I also loved this story. The poignancy was like the smell of lilacs … no words, a kind of sweetness.

  • @EnCryptedHorror
    @EnCryptedHorror 3 года назад +8

    A completely new one to me (which I always like)! Looking forward to it.

    • @mariameere5807
      @mariameere5807 3 года назад +2

      Me too, I love your channel!🌟 I’ve just had a quick glance at it! I feel like I’m cheating on Tony Because I’m going to subscribe!

    • @EnCryptedHorror
      @EnCryptedHorror 3 года назад +1

      @@mariameere5807 Great! You're very welcome.

    • @mariameere5807
      @mariameere5807 3 года назад +1

      @@EnCryptedHorror thank you!🌹

  • @moonspath1598
    @moonspath1598 2 года назад

    Thanks to both of You, I found the story lovely. I've always enjoy asking people to tell stories from times long gone and their faces light up when remembering.

  • @stardust949
    @stardust949 3 года назад +6

    This was a marvelously written story! I LOVE ambiguous endings such as these...seeds were dropped gently to plant the idea that "Lady Ferry" could simply change identities once she needed to move on. Or, you can believe in the grave version if you like. Many thanks to your sponsor for the suggestion of this story as well as choosing to share it with us! I also love the use of the word 'ferry' as in (possibly) the ferry boat for crossing between the worlds of the living and the dead. Many, many thanks all round.

  • @rattyrachel4316
    @rattyrachel4316 3 года назад +7

    Masterful writing. Wow. Feel like I’ve been on a long mesmerizing journey to somewhere and back. (Well, not totally back, even yet!) Great job, Tony. Thanks!

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      You are welcome, Rachel. As I said Susan Foust brought me to this One

  • @mrs.cracker4622
    @mrs.cracker4622 3 года назад +3

    What a beautiful story! It was very touching and moving. Thank you !

  • @rmartel919
    @rmartel919 3 года назад +5

    Great reading, Tony. Love listening to your channel when I'm working on my art.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      I really like the idea of you working while listening

  • @poetryjones7946
    @poetryjones7946 3 года назад +8

    Excellent! ⭐️

  • @GillyBobs
    @GillyBobs 3 года назад +2

    Great stories. Thank you. Really enjoyed the last one. Love a good gothic story! I find the origin of words and dialect really interesting.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      Me too. I can get carried away by words

  • @DevonExplorer
    @DevonExplorer 2 года назад

    Such a lovely and melancholy story, beautifully read as always. I loved the evocation of childhood and I was transported back to my own childhood in the garden and orchard, my own little border to plant in, the countryside and playing down by the river with my friends. I think that one will stay with me for quite a while. Thank you, Tony. :)

  • @matthewharper7333
    @matthewharper7333 3 года назад +1

    I just listened to Woman at the Door and the comments at the end of that video. Ah, and this one is right around the corner: American, female writer, and female characters. All stories for all people! I recently discovered this channel and like it very much. The northern accent, well-paced reading, and overall clarity must be what the old bards telling stories over the cooking fires have been like. I also enjoy your original stories.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      That is right, American, female, female characters. I should NOT be reading this story. But I did.

    • @matthewharper7333
      @matthewharper7333 3 года назад

      @@ClassicGhost The next thing you know, you'll read Afterward by Edith Wharton and all those affected by the terrible disease of scrupulosity will be bedridden with only asprin and arsenic offering any relief.

  • @careyannewesternpa5512
    @careyannewesternpa5512 2 года назад +2

    Beautiful story. Beautiful voice and narration. Thank you.

  • @sarahsamaria8283
    @sarahsamaria8283 3 года назад +1

    Hauntingly beautiful. Lovely prose and even the scenery is so serene and colourful. Immortality is overly exaggerated. Just thinking of living for ever is so tiring and so mundane. Really enjoyed the introductory prose of the story. Very philosophical .

  • @violetfemme411
    @violetfemme411 3 года назад +5

    Brilliant! 💥 I was hanging on every word. Just beautifully written and paced.

  • @MrsJanLong
    @MrsJanLong 5 месяцев назад +1

    Another new one for me, thank you. Great narration, very sensitively read.

  • @kevinmortimer5681
    @kevinmortimer5681 3 года назад +2

    I'd never heard of this writer, and I'm very grateful to you for introducing me to her.
    Brilliantly narrated.
    Thank you!! 👍👏👏👏

  • @martiwilliams4592
    @martiwilliams4592 3 года назад

    Enchanting, gripping. Heard first time on tv. Your presentation, accent and commentary are masterful. Thank you!More, please!

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      Yeah, I have kind of backed off from doing both accents and sound effects and in fact live broadcasts. I have a feeling I will return to them all in time

  • @gordonandtamarakirkham543
    @gordonandtamarakirkham543 3 года назад +1

    What a lovely story! Thank you, Mr. Tony!

  • @juliadia007
    @juliadia007 3 года назад +3

    I had a friend from Boston. He used to say "oh that's smaht" for "smart." Warburton was probably pronounced Waahburhton

  • @MissGroves
    @MissGroves 3 года назад +4

    Really enjoyed this. Going to look for more works by the author

  • @applewagon253
    @applewagon253 3 года назад +3

    After becoming a Patreon member, I ravenously listened to all the content there and was desperate for more! Thank you so much for you work. I’m a bit obsessed!

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад

      I will do some more !

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад

      I actually recorded some last night but yn he video was horrible

  • @thepageburnner3534
    @thepageburnner3534 3 года назад +6

    Just in time !

  • @martiwilliams4592
    @martiwilliams4592 6 месяцев назад

    Ditto this time around--after 2 yrs. Thank you, Tony. Love the dialect/accent.

  • @lzeph
    @lzeph 3 года назад +1

    Ohhhh lucky me -- I just found your channel, so I have a lot of binge-listening to do!
    Regarding pronunciation: Just slightly off-topic, but my grandmother was born in Oklahoma. When she was a teenager, she and her family moved to Colorado -- by covered wagon, then settled in Washington state as an adult. So you can imagine the influences on her pronunciation. She pronounced "iron" as "arn", and Washington as "Warshington". She'd "het" the oven to bake her "pahs" (heat; pies), and she always warned me not to "swaller" my toothpaste or let the cat "foller" me to school. I think there is no particular American accent; each region has their own patois. You did a great job, especially considering how varied even Bostonian accents can be.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      I love accents. I was very interested in your comments about your grandmother's pronunciation. Glad to have you here.

  • @lesleywoodroffe3037
    @lesleywoodroffe3037 28 дней назад +1

    I'm a Brit living in The Country of The Pointed Firs, since '86! and Sarah Orne Jewett is revered here. They pronounce it 'Jewitt' by the way. The Maine accent is very hard to emulate, viz On Golden Pond - you can always tell! Unless you are born and bred here yo will never be a Mainer, always regarded as 'from away!' But I love the independent spirit and creative vibes here, several well-known authors and artists make it their home.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  28 дней назад

      The local pronounciation thing is always going to be an issue. I think I should just stick to stories written and based in Workington. Not so many of them, but at least I'd be able to pronounce them correctly.

  • @Shineon83
    @Shineon83 6 месяцев назад

    Such a LOVELY tale ❤

  • @evelanpatton
    @evelanpatton 2 года назад +1

    Revisiting this story & I wanted to commend your editing & audio equipment upgrade of the Morse current work.
    Although, this early work sounds & feels like w whispered bedtime story, the new work feels more professional. You are a talented gift!

  • @reneelascala5050
    @reneelascala5050 3 года назад +2

    Lovely. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is still the best British fantasy novel written in this century.

  • @janetcw9808
    @janetcw9808 3 года назад +1

    Thanks so much, I was smiling away with Lady Ferry both sadness and.

  • @krinkle909
    @krinkle909 3 года назад +2

    Sarah Orne Jewett is a wonderful author. I read The White Heron, which I found fascinating. When I was in college, I wrote a paper comparing it to Moby Dick.

    • @soumiatulip
      @soumiatulip Год назад

      interesting. How r these works linked? or how do they differ?

  • @mariameere5807
    @mariameere5807 3 года назад +3

    🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
    I was going to listen to that other story I heard before from you, but then I saw you sent this also! Thank you so much, I hung on every single word!

  • @WindyNightStories
    @WindyNightStories 3 года назад +2

    Great story and you do such a fantastic narration!

  • @trixie10199
    @trixie10199 3 месяца назад

    I loved this story! You did such a great job! Lady Ferry reminds me of Miss Havisham from “Great Expectations.”
    I think you meant
    Mr Norrell and Jonathan Strange? I loved that period piece as well.

  • @janisfrazee2020
    @janisfrazee2020 2 месяца назад

    I loved this, it spoke to me in a way hard to explain

  • @psum6537
    @psum6537 Месяц назад

    ❤❤❤ story was great but your commentary was a peek into your life too! TY

  • @paulthompson52
    @paulthompson52 3 года назад +1

    Really enjoyed the story! Thank you!!

  • @QueenBee-gx4rp
    @QueenBee-gx4rp 2 года назад +2

    Yes, here in New England we would pronounce the W..Ber.wick. And we cal that dialect “Down East”.

  • @tedar3986
    @tedar3986 3 года назад +1

    WD per usual! Gr8 info...💞🚻🔥😉😊 Nice merch! ❤️ hoodies✅💯🆒👍🏼 TY Tony!

    • @tedar3986
      @tedar3986 3 года назад

      Tony luv, how about 🤔💭💡 🎶 📱Ringtones 🤷🏻‍♀️ Yes? 👍🏼 😃

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      I can do you a free ring tone no worries

    • @tedar3986
      @tedar3986 3 года назад

      @@ClassicGhost Really Tony?! Yay! Sooo excited! Thank you! ❤️

  • @CrenJay
    @CrenJay 3 года назад +2

    Had your reading on in the background as I write up my PhD! (Just half a chapter left to write, thanks for keeping me entertained) Subscribed to the channel & podcast, and I enjoy your commentary of each story at the end of every episode.. have your ever thought about doing a project with other RUclips channels doing a similar thing to you like HorrorBabble?

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      Like a collaboration? He’s too big to bother with me . What was your PhD about?

    • @melfreemans
      @melfreemans 3 года назад +1

      You're almost finished!!!! I know that's going to be a huge relief!!!

    • @CrenJay
      @CrenJay 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, they seem lovely! It's medical engineering, I should be a doctor before the end of the year 👍

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад

      @@CrenJay good luck !

    • @CrenJay
      @CrenJay 3 года назад

      @@ClassicGhost thanks!!

  • @daljordan8921
    @daljordan8921 3 года назад +3

    My yankee in laws live around the corner from the Jewett house. They would say flah bahds (floor boards). Many times I have been sent on an errand looking for a road or a store spelled as it was pronounced only to find there was no phonetic resemblance.
    I can't complain. It's just as bad in Texas. There is a road, Grauwyler, that we call Garwheeler. To say it any other way is to announce yourself an outsider.
    Local lingo is so much fun. I fear we are all becoming so homogeneous in our speech. Resist!

    • @Bambisgf77
      @Bambisgf77 3 года назад +1

      Agreed! 👏🏻👏🏻I am from Louisiana, the language there was so rich when I was a child and while the pockets of accents do exist they are disappearing.. I now live in Missouri where the weather is infinitely better but one of things I miss the most is the melody & variety of speech from home. ❤️

  • @BeatlesFanSonia
    @BeatlesFanSonia 3 года назад +1

    I loved it!

  • @rameyzamora1018
    @rameyzamora1018 3 года назад +4

    SPOILER COMMENT: Lady Ferry seemed to me to be a vampire. She didn't go out in the day, she had ancient friends, she lived like Anne Rice's Lestat forever changing her identity & appearance. But unlike her Stokerian siblings she was a kind person who hadn't wanted this curse of immortality. I don't think she is dead at the end, no matter what the narrator wishes were true. Death would be a release & this is a story of loneliness & tragedy wherein the young girl offers a few hours of welcome respite.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад

      Interesting

    • @leslieortenzi8875
      @leslieortenzi8875 3 года назад

      Great story! And I think you did a very competent job with your American accent!
      A suggestion re: the Maine accent- STEPHEN KING! He's a life-long Mainer and there's no shortage of his interviews, lectures, and his readings of his own tales!

  • @patrickfloyd6277
    @patrickfloyd6277 3 месяца назад

    That was soooo good! Thank you.

  • @Josephinejefferies
    @Josephinejefferies 3 месяца назад +1

    Enjoyed this

  • @julierobinson3633
    @julierobinson3633 6 месяцев назад +1

    Lady Ferry may have a grave... but IS she in it....?

  • @davidbailey4404
    @davidbailey4404 5 месяцев назад

    Just discovered this gem in your back
    catalogue. My thanks, as always, for your sharing it with us. A thing of beauty, and your telling of it reflects that. I admit that I was hoping for a
    shade of ambiguity in the ending, but
    I understand why it wasn't there. Eternal life might seem to be a blessing, for a while, but it would be a curse after all. Better, finally, to be peacefully dead.
    At any rate, you've introduced me to yet another hitherto unknown author, and I'll be looking for her in the archives of the Gutenberg Project.
    I'm curious about whether anyone else has had a problem making a donation to your channel through your
    Donations page. My transaction was
    declined and I'm 100% certain that it's
    not a problem with my card. Perhaps you could check it out. My best to you
    and yours.

  • @thurayya8905
    @thurayya8905 Год назад +1

    This was a lovely story, a gentle one of age and youth. I didn't realize that you were going for a northern east coast Maine pronunciation, I just heard it as general American English, such as you might hear from a newscaster. I liked this style of English much better than your southern, but that might just be me. In fact, you sounded so different, I looked twice to make sure that it was you narrating. Since I am writing from the future, I am glad to see you made it past your sixtieth.

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад

      my american accents are a bit hit and miss. i generally avoid now

  • @lisabrown6156
    @lisabrown6156 3 года назад +1

    Please more books like Lady Ferry 🙂

  • @leslieortenzi8875
    @leslieortenzi8875 3 года назад

    Great story! And I think you did a very competent job with your American accent!
    A suggestion re: the Maine accent- STEPHEN KING! He's a life-long Mainer and there's no shortage of his interviews, lectures, and his readings of his own tales!

  • @Tyler.i.81
    @Tyler.i.81 3 года назад +1

    Ohh lady ferry I'm swooning for you

  • @rheinhartsilvento2576
    @rheinhartsilvento2576 3 года назад +2

    Beautiful🌼⭐⚘🥀
    The style, the way of writing, the sensibility reminds me so much of Bruno Schulz.
    I know you have a huge lineup of work ahead....but whenever you have a free space, I'd love to hear you reading a good translation of his work - "Cinnamon Shops and "Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass".
    Apparently the 2018 translation by Madeline Levine is outstanding...
    Anyway, an idea for the future maybe.
    Thank you for your work🌟🙏🌟

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      Did you see I’ve already done Sanatorium?

  • @AmberFelber-ix4zd
    @AmberFelber-ix4zd 2 месяца назад

    Ty 🌹☀️🦋🌻

  • @jaceek2030
    @jaceek2030 3 года назад +1

    What a terrific gem of a tale. Your narration is impeccable as always. Regarding the commenter who asked if you ever thought of a collab; with perhaps Horror Babble. And your reply they're too big to bother with you. With all due respect, I beg to differ. Yes HB is a great channel, but so is yours Mr. Walker. A collab of you 2 would be stunning!
    I mean yes, everybody dies..but is Warren truly dead? Or dead only to fools.. Did anyone actually try to get in the locked room? A collab exploring the possibilities sounds like its just waiting to be 'collabed".

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      Very funny comment !

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад +1

      Funny In that it made me laugh by the way

    • @jaceek2030
      @jaceek2030 3 года назад

      @@ClassicGhost
      I figured you meant funny as in you laughed, but it's ok if I'm sometimes thought of as funny as in odd. I prefer to think of it as unique tho. 🙂
      Thanks again for all you put into this great channel for us.

  • @angeloofpalermo2612
    @angeloofpalermo2612 3 года назад +4

    The lives they lived were so rigid. It's like the coronavirus rules tbh. Some of their escapes must have been writing, dramas or ghost stories.

    • @wmnoffaith1
      @wmnoffaith1 3 года назад +4

      I suppose they were rigid, but if the things that you enjoy fall within the prescribed rules, I assume it wouldn't seem rigid. When I was a girl, I spent hour after hour siting with my grandmother in silence doing embroidery. Most people would've been bored stiff or hated it; for me, it was among my greatest pleasures. I could hear the birds, the insects, distant cars, the sounds of my grandmother turning the pages. It was total peace compared to my house of constant noise, tv blaring, stereo blasting, people yelling from one room to the next...very modern. My grandmother's house was very Victorian and perfectly peaceful.

    • @angeloofpalermo2612
      @angeloofpalermo2612 3 года назад +3

      @@wmnoffaith1 very good point. It's those things that make you forget time and everything else that makes life enjoyable.

  • @MSYNGWIE12
    @MSYNGWIE12 3 года назад

    Thanks Tony, TWO TALES, very kind. Dumb question, do your daughters ever pose for these stories, Rosamund and here? I thought she was a genteel vampire, but that seemed "dim" on my part! Too genteel, but no sun...only at night, ? Yes, I feel asleep...I drifted off to the heady scent of a garden out of my dreams, like the ones seen in English tourist brochures and from too much BRIT TV! So marvelous at day's end to close, rest one's eyes and snuggle up with a purring cat to a tale well told...Thank you, for a dble-header. I can smell those cheeky little pansy, violets- with their mocking faces. Can't wait to find out what sort of being she is, can it be she's a ghost and yet so "earth" bound?! Namaste

  • @violetfemme411
    @violetfemme411 3 года назад

    I've been meaning to ask if you are familiar with the Shirley Jackson story "Paranoia." Her work never fails to disturb me on multiple levels, and this one is faithful to it's title. I'd love to hear you read it. 👂👍

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад

      I have read most of her stuff, but I'm bad with titles.

    • @violetfemme411
      @violetfemme411 3 года назад

      @@ClassicGhost I thought I had read ALL her stories but every now and then I find a new one..new to me of course. And I'm never disappointed regardless of where the ride takes me.

  • @missdaisysunshine8633
    @missdaisysunshine8633 Год назад

    Fellow language/etymology needs, UNITE!

  • @juliadia007
    @juliadia007 3 года назад +3

    My mother is 100. I'm obliged to live with her. Sorry, no romance or mystery in this story.

    • @theoriginalsuzycat
      @theoriginalsuzycat 3 года назад

      Yup, I think this is a bittersweet story about old age seen through the eyes of someone young.

  • @melfreemans
    @melfreemans 3 года назад

    Wait... there's no west coast of Maine???? Does that mean there's no west coast of North Carolina either???? Lol!!! I tickled me the way you clarified that!

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  3 года назад

      Well if you’re from New Zealand or Dublin you might not know…

    • @melfreemans
      @melfreemans 3 года назад

      @@ClassicGhost hey there's a lot of people from the US that don't know! One of my cousins thinks the Appalachian mountains are in California! And she's 30. There was just something about how it was said that made me giggle.

  • @carla-xs5ct
    @carla-xs5ct Год назад

    What episode number?

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Год назад

      +Carla sorry. I dont understand . I think it’s a complete story

    • @carla-xs5ct
      @carla-xs5ct Год назад

      @@ClassicGhost That's ok, I found it! It's season 2, episode 29. Thanks so much!

  • @tamarabaluyut3030
    @tamarabaluyut3030 Месяц назад

    I'm not sure how to get ahold of you any other way, but I would like to hear you read Halloween Tree by Ray Brad Bury

    • @ClassicGhost
      @ClassicGhost  Месяц назад

      I can’t do Bradbury due to the copyright owner objecting

    • @tamarabaluyut3030
      @tamarabaluyut3030 Месяц назад

      @@ClassicGhost oh, okay

  • @dismith73
    @dismith73 2 года назад

    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • @jeannedeshazer-ellsworth9995
    @jeannedeshazer-ellsworth9995 3 месяца назад

    Jonatan Steange and Mr Norrell