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Jane Austen and the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride and Vanity

Posted in Austen Insights, Austen Inspired, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, tagged , , , , , on 10 December 2008 | 4 Comments »

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new made [...]

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The Jane Austen Survey 2008 Results are Posted at JASNA

Posted in Austen Insights, Austen in the News, tagged , , on 10 November 2008 | 2 Comments »

Anatomy of a Janeite
For those Janeites who participated in the The Jane Austen Survey 2008 created and compiled by Jeanne Kiefer last January, you might be very interested to read the results which have been posted in her report, Anatomy of a Janeite, Selected Results from The Jane Austen Survey 2008 on the Jane Austen Society [...]

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Mansfield Park Revelation: I am Fanny Price! Are You?

Posted in Austen Insights, Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged , , , , , on 31 August 2008 | 7 Comments »

Newby Hall, Yorkshire
In Defense of Fanny Price
Even after the conclusion of Mansfield Park Madness, I am still ruminating over the novel and the characters. In order to put them to rest, I must get one thing off my chest! My journey to understand the novel has lead me to several insights and one profound truth. 
At [...]

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Mansfield Park: Jane Austen’s Collection of Opinions: Day 16 Give-away!

Posted in Austen Insights, Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged , , , , , , on 30 August 2008 | 10 Comments »

 
OPINIONS 
Mrs. Augusta Bramstone – owned that she thought S. & S. – and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M. P. better, & having finished the 1st vol. – flattered herself she had got through the worst. 
We have the unique pleasure of still having Jane Austen’s collection of opinions by her family [...]

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My Personal Austen: Does Reading Jane Austen Make Me a Better Person?

Posted in Austen Editions, Austen Insights, Austen Inspired, Jane Austen's Letters, Pride & Prejudice, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 30 May 2008 | 6 Comments »

If anyone out there has ever wondered where I get my inspiration to write continually about one subject – Jane Austen – for six months and counting, you might be amused at what from time-to-time inspires those brain cells into action. Many times, I will be Googling along and happen upon something that I was not [...]

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Austen’s Emma: Dear Miss Woodhouse, do advise me.

Posted in Austen Insights, Emma, tagged , , , , , , on 28 April 2008 | 2 Comments »

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to “‘Yes,’” she ought to say “‘No’” directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful [...]

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