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Jane Austen and the ‘father of the novel’ – Samuel Richardson

Posted in Jane Austen's Life & Times, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 10 August 2010 | 16 Comments »

Gentle readers: Last week I reviewed Lynn Shepherd’s new Austen inspired mystery Murder at Mansfield Park. Not only is she an accomplished novelist, she is a distinguished Samuel Richardson scholar with a new book Clarissa’s Painter: Portraiture, Illustration, and Representation in the Novels of Samuel Richardson, published by the venerable Oxford University Press. Richardson was [...]

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Remarkably Jane: Notable Quotations on Jane Austen, by Jennifer Adams: The Sunday Salon Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Quotes Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 15 March 2009 | 4 Comments »

A book review of Remarkably Jane: Notable Quotations on Jane Austen, by Jennifer Adams.

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Sense and Sensibility: Marianne Dashwood – blushing maiden or feminist?

Posted in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 28 January 2009 | 16 Comments »

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but marry all the rest of the world. In the promotion of this object, she was zealously active, as far as her ability [...]

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Jane Austen and the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride and Vanity

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, 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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