Elettaria

As you may be aware, following the real-time readings of Dracula and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which are currently running most successfully at dracula1897 and lesliaisons1782, we're planning to do the same thing with Richardson's mammoth novel Clarissa in January. It's the longest novel in the English language though a very great one, so we're going to need a team to get this working. There will be a variety of jobs that need doing, so you can sign up for anything you're interested in and do as much or as little as you like. For instance:

( Examples of jobs )

If you're interested, leave a comment here so we can chat a bit, and then apply to join epistolary_mods, a closed community which is where the mods of the real-time reading groups discuss such thrilling matters as icons and proofreading. We're a nice bunch. You don't need to have read Clarissa already, there will still be jobs for you, but it'll help if a few people on the team have done so, and it'll be necessary to have a decent knowledge of the novel for some jobs.

As you will see from my previous entry, lesliaisons1782 starts in a few days. And it needs icons! At the moment I have icons made by poisoninjest from the film as placeholders for the character icons, but I don't want to use those if I can help it, since this community is about the novel, not the film. So we want something appropriate to the characters in whatever way, but nothing that is recognisably from a modern staging or film. The current main icon for the comm (the one I'm using here) is actually from the 1988 film, but hopefully you can't really tell that after what we've done to it.

So please, people, help me! Ready-made icons would be fabulous, but ideas that can be worked into icons, such as paintings from the period, would also be great. I know nothing about art and all I know of 18th c French lit is Laclos, so I'm finding it hard to know where to start.