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Jane Austen Wayyyyyyy Ahead of Her Time

In the Janeites yahoogroup during the past  two days, I’ve been engaged in a thread with Christy Somerand Nancy Mayer, which arose outof our discussing  the behavior of Mr. Bennet in the beginning of...

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MATRiMONY is a MATteR of MONeY

Some  lucky fallout from my recent frivolous investigations into literary puns is that, by accident, I came across another literary pun that does actually go to the heart of Jane Austen's fictions--and...

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Seizing the Mantel and Seizing the Pen

Diana (Birchall, not the ghost of the late Princess of Wales!) wrote the following in Janeites, in regard to the recent article by Booker Prize winner Hilary...

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P.S re Hilary Mantel & Duchess Kate

In response to my first post about Hilary Mantel's controversial recent article about Duchess Kate and the Royal Family, my friend Diana Birchall wrote: "You're probably right, Arnie, it was...

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Hilary Mantel Wields Jane Austen's Quill Pen

Near the  end of the first of my two recent posts about Hilary Mantel's controversial article  about Kate Middleton and the other British...

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Jane Austen’s “Carpet” Sharade on James 1st & Cleland’s “carpet road” passage...

In Janeites on Sunday, Nancy Mayer wrote the following, attempting to rebut my and others's claims that Jane Austen's Sharade on James I……“His Majesty was of that amiable disposition which inclines to...

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Jane Austen’s “Carpet” Sharade on James 1st & Cleland’s “carpet road” passage...

In my previous  post on this topic…http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2013/02/jane-austens-carpet-sharade-on-james.html….I made the  case for  the 15-year old Jane Austen’s “Carpet” Sharade as a...

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Jane Austen’s “Carpet” Sharade on James 1st & Cleland’s “carpet road” passage...

In Part  Two of this series of three posts about the above-titled topic….http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2013/02/jane-austens-carpet-sharade-on-james_27.html….I  began to answer the question...

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Which are the most erotic passages in Jane Austen's Novels?

I have been posting the past week about the veiled allusions to Cleland's Fanny Hill that I see in Jane Austen's writings, and now a question has occurred to me, which I do not recall being discussed...

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The room in which the ladies sat was backwards" : A Room of Charlotte’s Own

During the recent thread I started about allusions to Fanny Hill in Jane Austen’s writing, it was suggested that Jill Heydt-Stevenson’s Unbecoming Conjunctionsis sensationalistic, that it seeks out the...

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Mary Bennet & Jane Austen, Students of Thorough-Bass & Human Nature

An interesting thread of discussion has developed in Janeites, arising out of a report of a recent piano recital at which music actually played by Jane Austen was performed and discussed, and then the...

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"A woman must have a THOROUGH knowledge of MUSIC..."

Following up on my last post about Mary Bennet and Jane Austen as students of thorough-bass and human...

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Jane Austen's Letter 96 (6 November 1813): "They came & they sat...and then...

In Janeites  and Austen-L, during our endless  group read of JA’s letters  (we have been at it for  over 2 years, and now have just about a year to go), Diana Birchall commented about the following...

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Miss Bates the Delphic Oracle AND Greek Chorus of Highbury

In Janeites and Austen L yesterday, I asked for help in understanding the meaning of the following sentence in Chapter  44 of Emma: "Miss Bates would hardly give Emma time to say how perfectly new this...

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The Riveting Spectacle of Jane Austen & Joseph Addison in a Witty Clinch

My eye was caught this morning by a curious resonance of expression between the following two passages written about 80years apart: Joseph Addison on James the First in his 4th Paper on Wit, published...

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The Riveting Spectacle of Jane Austen & Joseph Addison in a Clinching CONUNDRUM

This post is in followup to my several posts yesterday in which I claimed that Jane Austen, both in her youthful History of England, and also in Emma, covertly but strongly alluded to the following...

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Austen as Sermoniser...or Playwright

In Austen-L this morning, Anielka Briggs wrote (in relevant part): "I contend Austen’s moralising is the clever, gentle and entertaining writing of a Church of England clergyman’s child in the...

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Sir Walter's Subtle Wit

Sir Walter Elliot is generally considered one of the duller elves among the range of Austen characters, for good reason, it would seem. Not only is he in the running for Most Narcissistic Character (of...

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Sir Walter’s Wit, Yellowed Admirals and…..Conchs and Conchology!

In response to my immediately preceding post about Sir Walter's Subtle Wit, Anielka Briggs wrote the following in Austen-L: "Well that would have been quite clever. Except for one critical error....

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Kitty's Indiscreet Coughing: She's Just Following Advice

I've posted twice before about Kitty Bennet's coughing in the opening  scene of  Pride & Prejudice, most recently...

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