It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone is the protagonist of their own story. (And also that any writing about Pride and Prejudice must re-create a version of its famous first line.) Shortly after writing my post of "unanswerable questions" and "roguish speculations" about Pride and Prejudice, wherein I shared my sympathy for poor, … Continue reading In Praise of the Try-Hards: ‘The Other Bennet Sister’
Pride and Prejudice
Here’s the Thing About … Jane Austen
Friends, we are barreling toward the arbitrary deadline when we recognize the changing of one year into the next. I may work my way up to a longer Jane Austen series. (We live in hope!) But for now, a highly subjective and yet unquestionably correct ranking of all Austen's novels. (Just kidding—question me!) 6. Mansfield … Continue reading Here’s the Thing About … Jane Austen
‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Unanswerable Questions and Roguish Speculations
Let’s round out the year with a Jane Austen mini-series. Austen has a reputation among the uninformed of being treacly, old timey romance. Mark Twain famously declared that he wanted to “dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” Twain always writes like the cat who got the cream and … Continue reading ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Unanswerable Questions and Roguish Speculations
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