Re: Barouche and four or curricle?
I have been following the Tea Room discussions, and your questions here are doing a great job whetting my appetite for your story. Needless to say, I am looking forward to the day when you move over...
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Aww, thanks! I'm getting pretty excited myself. I've never written a fan fic before and I'm a little worried I've bitten off more than I can chew! Nonetheless, I'm almost done with the main storyline,...
View ArticleRe: Engagements and a father's blessing
I agree that that would be the appropriate course of action for an engagement coming out of the blue (for the father). In that case, it would be worth the trip for the chance to explain himself in...
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It's actually even a little more complicated than that. He gave his consent for the courtship at one point, then heard a scandalous rumor about Darcy, in consequence of which the engagement was broken...
View ArticleRe: depends what you want to say about him...
Austen used vehicles with ruthless efficiency to show the characteristics of her menfolk; the solid dependabilit of a barouche or the dash of a curricle. You should ask yourself in modern terms....
View ArticleFanny and the play
Well, I wrote a nice long post that ended up losing when my computer shut down of its own accord. I won't rewrite that.So briefly then, has any one else noticed just how much Fanny becomes involved in...
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Your first interpretation is closest to my thoughts. This quote interests me: "For her own gratification she could have wished that something might be acted, for she had never seen even half a play,...
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply. I do agree with you in everything you say.I also think there is an element of portraying her normal humanity, though. Austen comments on this in other...
View ArticleRe: Fanny and the play
Fanny, apart from being something of a prig and rather wet, is, poor girl, in a similar situation to a paid companion or governess, a bit more part of the family than that, perhaps, but definitely as...
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Sarah, while I have no desire to be argumentative, I don't fully understand some of your comments. Fanny fall for the wiles of Henry Crawford? A large part of the book is about her not falling for his...
View ArticleFanny's Humanity
I like that possibility. Wasn't MP published posthumously? I wonder if she would have gone back and edited Fanny a little more. She does come across as almost inhuman to me, whether too virtuous or...
View ArticleA Gentleman of Fashion
What would a dandyish, even foppish, gentleman have worried about in Jane Austen's day? The cut of his coat, obviously, and the tying of his cravat, but what else? Lace? Did they still wear lace? The...
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No, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously. Mansfield Park was the next one written after Pride and Prejudice, before Emma, if I remember correctly, but in real life that...
View ArticleRe: A Gentleman of Fashion
Toothpick-cases:Quote [O]ne gentleman only was standing [at the counter], and it is probable that Elinor was not without hopes of exciting his politeness to a quicker dispatch. But the correctness of...
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In a similar vein to the toothpick cases, gentlemen could also showcase their taste and fortune with snuff boxes:QuoteViscount Petersham's manners were affected and he spoke with a kind of lisp. Never...
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An addition to all the excellent suggestions - the fabric of his waistcoat. The colours and prints on the waistcoat - flamboyant or understated - said a lot about a man.
View ArticleRe: A Gentleman of Fashion
Excellent! Thank you all for the suggestions. I particularly like that some of these are relevant to day as well as evening situations, because I totally forgot about the items that would be relevant...
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