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‘Pride and Prejudice without Zombies’: “Enamoured of the Picturesque at a Very Early Age”: William Gilpin and Jane Austen

Posted in Blog Events, Jane Austen's Life & Times, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Works, Pride and Prejudice without Zombies, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 9 July 2010 | 2 Comments »

Dovedale in the Peak district of Derbyshire from Observations on the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland etc, by William Gilpin (1786) Gentle Readers: in celebration of the ‘Pride and Prejudice without Zombies’ event over the next month, I have asked several of my fellow Jane Austen bloggers to share their knowledge and interest [...]

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Austen at Large: Isabella Thorpe as a modern blogger!

Posted in Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 7 February 2009 | 10 Comments »

In this past week I have been finishing Northanger Abbey and as wonderful as the romance is in it, I think one of the most important lessons is about friendship. Catherine learns throughout the novel how to better read people, in particular her friends. She starts out completely fooled by Isabella Thorpe. Catherine thinks that they [...]

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