Re: Hating on Jane
Sandy C Wrote:> And I quote from the novel:> Do your sisters play and sing?”> “One of them does.”> “Why did not you all learn? You ought all to> have learned. The> Miss Webbs all...
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I tried that earlier but couldn't get the journal site to respond. And even if I had, my wife says I'm 'finding impaired', so I might well have failed.
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As a man with a wife smarter than he is, I can say it makes life much more interesting. Even after 30 years we often spend a good deal of the evening talking.
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Lady Cat in the previous sentence asked if Eliz played and sang, and then asked about Eliz's sisters --"Do you play and sing, Miss Bennet?""A little.""Oh! then -- some time or other we shall be happy...
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Jim D. Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Until Janice pointed it out, I never really> thought about it how little the villains in Jane> Austen really do pay.>...
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Isabella Thorpe did not catch Capt Tilney, who was only toying with her, and she lost James Morland who was actually a fairly good match for her. The Allens regarded Morland as already a lucky catch...
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I have noticed far too many fics with this theme. Can't stand it!
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Jane Austen never wrote a true villain. Wickham, who is the worst, is a lazy opportunist. He has no true victims (Lydia would be to modern sensibilities, but not Regency) Lydia was willing, Georgiana...
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I get what all of you are saying, Janice, Suzanne and Harvey. And, with no tongue in cheek, I do see the value of being able to entertain with one's musical skills or to sketch silhouettes while...
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I expect that in most cases even during the Regency upper-classes the decision to marry stops being political at some point, and starts being personal - that is, after a while one ceases asking...
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I can't quite agree there. I don't think Jane was really gullible--each of them thought the other didn't care for them, found out they did, and were happy about it. It was pretty much a...
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I agree. My take on the exchange was that Elizabeth was trying to "get her Ladyship's goat" rather than earn her approval, and I imagine the conversation went on much longer than the excerpt which...
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Yeah, the "pain in the rear" Lizzy meme is too much for me, too. I can accept lots of other changes, but making Lizzy a shrew AND having Darcy eat it up is too much for me. I can even accept her being...
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I have to agree with Sandy. Lydia may be only 15, but in a world before the extension of childhood and adolescence, that's old enough to be married or, for the lower classes, have a job. More...
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Harvey S. Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> In other words, I think being actually> accomplished would significantly increase a young> lady's marriageability,...
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First of all, I wanted to point out that while Darcy may not consider a woman accomplished unless she has improved her mind through extensive reading, intelligence wasn't really considered an...
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Not to be nit-picky, but it's very unlikely that any of the Bennet girls would play such a fashionable and expensive instrument as the harp. And if I'm remembering the lecture I heard in Williamsburg,...
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Melissa:Re your comments:> Jane Austen never wrote a true villain. Wickham,> who is the worst, is a lazy opportunist. He has> no true victims (Lydia would be to modern> sensibilities, but...
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