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Which Jane Austen Novel Should I Read First?

Her grace and strength make her one of the finest of Austen's heroines. There's not as much humor in Persuasion. Even the more comical ...

Pride and Prejudice: Little Miss Austen, A Baby Board Book

Read more. Jane Austen Made Me Do It, Edited by Laurel Ann Nattress - JaneAusten.co · author · Jane Austen Made Me Do It, Edited by Laurel Ann ...

Jane Austen's Will | blog - Wix.com

I Jane Austen of the Parish of Chawton do by this my last Will ... had lost a part of myself. I loved her only too well -- not better than she ...

2 months, 1400 pages: reading all of Jane Austen's novels during a ...

... Jane Austen was to make me so mad at a 150 years-old character. Nonetheless, the moments Emma commented on current manners of her time was ...

Robert Eggleston - Jane Austen Society of North America

What I experienced during the attempt, however, has made me wonder both how ... My diligence was apparently futile, however, for it did not make my students any ...

Culture Junkie: On adaptation, rich language and 'The Austen Effect'

The book is better, richer, fuller, deeper, funnier and more linguistically addictive (Jane Austen is a blast to read out loud), it gave me a strong ...

December 2011 - MY JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB

1. Jane Austen Made Me Do It goes to Denise and 2. The Fourth Edition of Jane Austen's Letters by Deirdre Le Faye has been won by Lesly.

Jane Austen's Art and her Literary Reputation

Jane Austen also once said (in a letter of March 23 1816) that "pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked", and she satirized the frequent lack of realism ...

My Jane Austen Problem - Richard Geib

It seemed like solid advice to me. Feminists criticized her to the skies at the time, but Patton (and Jane Austen) knew that to make a good ...

Is Jane Austen Overhyped?

The book made me rethink my entire position on Jane Austen. Not ... Which raises the question, what kind of “literary education” did you think you ...

Jane in January and You – Austen and Her Brilliant Characters

... will prove to be more accurate. Some day. It was the Darcy side of me that caused the most trouble when I was younger. At first, I was ...

Jane Austen is Probably Mad at Us - McSweeney's Internet Tendency

This does in fact happen in Austen's books, but only because Austen is making fun of such women. We're supposed to understand those characters ...

Doris Lessing & Jane Austen

It made me wonder what she thought about Miss Bates, but she limits ... Here are a few passages in Lessing's essay on Jane Austen that I ...

Jane Austen is unreadable - Macleans.ca

Last year I had a spirited conversation with a colleague who convinced me to have a go at, I think, Northanger Abbey, but it, like Pride and ...

Austen first lines

... do first lines in Jane Austen's novels offer? How can examining ... made me to believe that of a truth spells are real and they work. I ...

Complete Works of Jane Austen

Where Should I Start? If you're new to Austen's work, Persuasion is the shortest read and should provide you with a good foundation for her writing style. It ...

Review: Jane Austen Made Me Do It by Laurel Ann Nattress

Don't forget to stop by the "Guest Blog & Giveaway" post to hear more from Laurel Ann Nattress about this fun compilation, and also to enter to ...

Exploring Jane Austen and Taylor Swift through their writing as ...

“The potential for our students to make personal connections across time and space with major literary figures was so high that I knew we could ...

Persuasion: Jane Austen's kung fu novel? - The Guardian

It applies to everyone, but in particular women. Few books have made me feel more tense than Persuasion. I could feel my stomach knotting as I ...

Jane Austen books: Emma, Pride and Prejudice & beyond - AbeBooks

It can be safely said that Jane Austen is one of the best-loved English authors of all time. Born December 16, 1775, Austen made a mark on ...