Edith Cushing

Edith Cushing is the protagonist in the 2015 gothic romance film Crimson Peak. She is a young writer with a troubled past, who marries Sir Thomas Sharpe and moves to his mansion home, Allerdale Hall, in Cumbria where he resides with his sister Lady Lucille Sharpe. But Edith discovers that Sir Thomas is not what he appears to be.
==Short Summary==
Edith is a young aspiring writer from America, who has recently married Sir Thomas Sharpe and has moved to his home Allerdale Hall, in Cumbria, England.
==Personality==
Edith is undoubtedly a kind and polite young woman and one of the most moral characters in the film. Her naivety gets her into trouble at some points in the film. Lucille herself remarks that she's beautiful but fragile, like a butterfly. However, Edith also subverts some aspects of this trope. When she and Thomas finally consummate their marriage, Edith actually takes the lead rather than being a passive partner, and as the third act proves, she is much tougher than she looks.
==Story==
Edith was born on October 9, 1877, to Carter Elias Cushing and Eleanor Wyndham-beckford, Carter and Eleanor were from very different tiers of society. Carter took pride in bing a self-made man; a hard-working businessman who inherited his father’s brick and masonry company. Eleanor, meanwhile, came from wealth–a reputable British lineage her family was keen for her to preserve. She was forbidden from marrying beneath her class, but love drove them to marry in secret, and soon the newlyweds were forging a new life in the bustling heart of New England.
After three miscarriages, Eleanor’s fourth pregnancy went to term and Edith was born–an event nothing short of a heavenly blessing. Both parents, but particularly Carter, fell in love with her immediately; Edith was the apple of her father’s eye. Working hard to establish his own successful construction firm, Carter settled down in Buffalo to design and build their dream home–a most modern mansion with every comfort imaginable. Edith loved the sunlight, the dining room table that was large enough to hide under, and the apple trees in the orchard outside.
Edith also found solace at the Cushing;s summer home on the Great Lakes. It was a magical place. Here Edith’s young imagination could run wild. She was enchanted by a family of wild rabbits that lived on their cottage grounds, giving each of them a name and creating stories about their comings and goings. One summer, Edith arrived at the cottage to discover that the rabbits had disappeared. Carter comforted her by giving her a note supposedly written by the rabbits, saying goodbye. Edith read and embellished that rabbit note for many years, and in spite of her father’s poor penmanship, she always found a little of her childhood wonder in it. The free-spirited young Edith had an insatiable imagination, and it was by her mother’s side that she learned to dream while awake. They would read together frequently and go shopping for new books together.
Eleanor’s sudden, unexpected death to cholera and the boundless grief that followed forged a unique bond between Edith and her father. In truth, Edith provided as much emotional support to Carter as he did to her. Over the years, they remodeled and redesigned the family house–but Edith and Eleanor’s rooms remained untouched. They were sacred spaces, frozen in time. Edith and her father were stricken with pain and loss that would last their entire lives. However, it would not be the last time Edith saw her mother.
Already haunted by her memory, Edith was ten years old when she was first visited by her mother’s ghost. The event affected her deeply. She tried to cope with this strange episode, first through childhood drawings and later in her literary compositions. Her stories were not all about whimsical love–they were populated with ghosts, spiritualism, and the unexplained. Reading and writing became Edith’s refuge from the world, and her intelligence both elevated and isolated her. She yearned to become an author and travel the world–but her father’s love and the expectations of society encaged her.
Only one young man came close to giving Edith the romance and distraction she so desperately craved: her childhood friend Alan McMichael. They shared a kiss one summer. Edith dismissed it as an experiment to inspire her writing, to know how it felt to kiss a boy, but for Alan, it was everlasting. He would cherish that memory and burn for more like it in the years that followed. Even when he traveled to England to study medicine, he dreamt of her. And she of him–though it was less out of love and more out of jealousy. He was traveling the world, living out her dream–a dream she was consistently denied. Despite her money and position, Edith felt trapped. Even as a young adult, she retained her unquenchable thirst for adventure. She even joked with her father about the need for tragedy in a life that is entirely ordinary.
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