My Jane Austen Problem
Jane Austen - 1. Reading Pride and Prejudice over Fifty Years
A few years ago, I realized that I had been reading Pride and Prejudice for fifty years, since I was six and found the book on my grandfather's bookshelf. What ...
Jane Austen's greatest lesson? Becoming the person God created ...
Jane Austen's novels remain popular because they take situations we all face and make us question how we would act in them as the pressure ...
The Heart of Jane Austen: Why Her Writing Endures
I have enjoyed her novels for decades — including during my favorite college class focused on all of Austen's novels (highly recommend!) — and ...
My P&P Trilogy - Jane Austen Variations
So what's the problem? Well, when I was finished with Return to Longbourn, all my loose ends were tied up in very neat little bows; there ...
Queering the Work of Jane Austen Is Nothing New - The Atlantic
Questions about Austen's sexuality recently resurfaced in warring headlines, with the BBC TV historian Lucy Worsley suggesting that Austen “ ...
Writing Lessons from Jane Austen: Story Questions and Northanger ...
The question of novel reading is apparent on every page of the book. It was a major debate in Austen's time, especially with regard to how women ...
Jane Austen's Books Don't Take Place over a Year and Other Myths
Three myths are repeated a lot in online Austen spaces and they don't take very long to refute, so here they are All of Austen's novels take ...
The Works of Jane Austen - A-Line Magazine
However, it can be argued that Austen does a fine job of providing sensible material in her books. For example, one of the biggest issues most ...
Sutherland doubts her findings will blot Austen's reputation. It only serves to call into question the claim by Austen's brother Henry that " ...
Pauses: Moments in Jane Austen When Nothing and Everything ...
For Valentine's Day, I'm very happy to share with you this guest post by Nora Bartlett on the moments in Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion ...
What's Your Favorite First Book Ever? Jane Austen's 'Sense and ...
One of my college professors remarked that Austen's heroines usually win the day not through actions of their own, but by persevering in their ...
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – Some thoughts on re-reading
Letters of business, too! How odious I should think them!' 'It is fortunate, then, that they fall to my lot instead of to yours.' ' ...
Book Bite: The Dark Side of Jane Austen's World
Jane was aware of the evils of society, of the problems faced by women whether single or married. Underneath the entertaining story lines are ...
#TheClassicsEight: Revisiting Jane Austen's Emma | Theresa Smith ...
'Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.' I first read Emma in my early 20s (I'm now in my early 40s) about the time ...
Why I Love Jane Austen (And Why You Should Too)
In the movie, Jane tells Cassandra--after both of their matches fell through their fingers--that her characters will, "after a bit of trouble," ...
Rereading Jane Austen has transformed my life and at almost 90, I ...
Rereading for the sheer pleasure of Austen's language and characters when I experienced some depression in my 60s initiated a process that ...
A Novel of Misreadings: Jane Austen's Emma - Slant Books
During my most recent re-reading, I noticed something that I hadn't quite gotten my mind around previously: this is a novel about how people ...
Jane Austen's Heroines: Why Money Matters! - Rachel Dodge
In Persuasion, we turn our attention to the widowed Mrs. Smith, whose husband had badly mismanaged their finances: “She was a widow and poor.
Which Jane Austen novel is the best? Your Pride ... - YouTube
Comments2 · Mr Bingley and Jane are not a good match | Your Pride & Prejudice unpopular opinions. · My Jane Austen Heritage with Caroline Knight, ...
Jane Austen's Autopsies - S Y N A P S I S
Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life” (Austen-Leigh 383). She was forty-one. Austen fell deeper into the “dangerous ...