#Austen

WHY YOU SHOULD STOP BEING TRIGGERED BY ACTORS OF COLOUR IN PERIOD DRAMAS: A THREAD In recent years, there has been a positive trend towards the greater inclusion of actors
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Oh no, made myself teary while waiting for my coffee because I thought about how at the end of Perusasion, Jane Austen offers Anne and Wentworth a chance to attain
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Today I'm sharing ways you can support some of my favourite small museums which are struggling just now because they rely on income from visitors who aren't able to come.
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Me, ruminating as one does: All of Jane Austen's books are queer in this essay I will pride and prejudice has pride literally in the title change my mind the
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I am happy that there are so many fans out there that can be as philosophical as Theo and say that the series is more than one actor.I really am
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Love hearing Bianca Hernandez-Knight discuss her journeys into Austen fandom and historical costuming. “For me what has really helped click literature to history has been understanding fashion . . .
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⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀thread of the books⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀i've read this year. ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝒫ride and 𝒫rejudice⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀by Jane Austen.⠀⠀
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Lively, intelligent protagonist: Awkward, arrogant suitor: Satisfying resolution: Jane Austen never finished ‘The Watsons’. (She didn’t name it that either.) ‘The Watsons’ concerns the story of Emma, who – having
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You know, when you really think about it, Fanny Dashwood is bad, but we don’t talk nearly enough about how bad John Dashwood is. Also, all of the men in
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2.5 years ago, I started a podcast from my bedroom in Phoenix, Arizona. 700 episodes later, I am now a different person, with a different circle, on a steeper slope.
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Are you prepared for #VirtualJaneCon?Here's your one-stop shop for info, but you can bookmark this thread for later too.https://bookhoarding.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/virtual-jane-con-2021/ First off: Life happens. Make sure you are foll
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It's sad to think none of this was necessary. Science supports this statement now. And Science will likely support this statement in the future.The data is clear.I've struggled to understand
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AUSTEN QUOTES x SANDITON An Epic ThreadBecause #Sanditon embodies the very spirit of Austen.1. "Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility
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There's some discussion around whether the classics of English Lit are bad actually, and I can't wait to paraphrase for you all the reasons why it's a complicated but valid
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6 books (novels?), 6 people1. That Hideous Strength - Lewis2. Hyperion - Simmons3. Night Watch - Pratchett4. Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald5. Emma - Austen6. Speaker for the Dead
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Watching the 1995 P&P mini series, and the Frenchman is so invested.Darcy just gave his first proposal, Lizzy rejected it, episode ends, and he looks at me in horror.
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