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"All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it." Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Jane Austen around the blogosphere for the week of September 14th. The Jane Austen Centre's September newsletter arrived in my mailed box. You can sign up for your very own free monthly copy... Continue Reading →
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. Isabella Thorpe, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 6Â Jane Austen's character Isabella Thorpe is a strange creature by way of a friend; an odd mixture of affability and cunning,... Continue Reading →
"This present from the Campbells," said she -- "This pianofortĂ© is very kindly given." "Yes," he replied, and without the smallest apparent embarrassment. "But they would have done better had they given her notice of it. Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. I should have expected... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress:Â "If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad." The new ITV/Masterpiece PBS adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey aired on PBS last night. After viewing a pensive Persuasion adaptation last week during The Complete Jane Austen, I was... Continue Reading →
