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Ich bin vor einiger Zeit zu meinem „Mister Bennet“ auch befragt worden:
#MisterBennet #JaneAusten #StolzUndVorurteil #Fortsetzung #PrideAndPrejudice
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Ich bin vor einiger Zeit zu meinem „Mister Bennet“ auch befragt worden:
#MisterBennet #JaneAusten #StolzUndVorurteil #Fortsetzung #PrideAndPrejudice
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Review: Persuasion – One of Jane Austen’s Most Underrated Books. (Spoilers)
Last Christmas, one of the books I received was Jane Austen’s Persuasion, which, as the title says, is possibly one of her most underrated books. While we have all heard of Pride and Prejudice, and maybe some of her other stories such as Sense and Sensibility or Emma, most of us probably aren’t familiar with Persuasion, despite it being one of the most heart-wrenchingly written romances Jane Austen ever put to paper.
Set in Regency-era England, Persuasion follows Anne Elliot, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat whose poor spending habits have landed the family deep in debt. In an attempt to get out of debt, the Elliot family is forced to rent out their estate to some wealthy tenants and move to their new home in Bath. However, the guy renting their estate isn’t just a random guy, but is actually Admiral Croft, who is married to the sister of Anne’s former suitor Captain Fredrick Wentworth, the man whom she was persuaded to break up with 8 years prior to the events of the book. Thus, Anne and Wentworth are forced to reconnect and confront their lingering feelings for each other through a series of misunderstandings.
With that description alone, it is understandable why Persuasion holds such a special place in the hearts of Jane Austen fans everywhere. Whereas most of Austen’s books center around young women falling in love for the first time, Persuasion focuses on an older heroine (Anne is 27) who has despaired of ever finding a husband and believes that Wentworth would never again want her after she rejected him. Thus, instead of the story necessarily focusing on finding a husband (though that’s a big part of it), it focuses more on forgiveness and the rekindling of the relationship between the two, and Anne’s rediscovery of hope and joy after being mired in despair for so long.
Besides that, Persuasion also feels different compared to some of Jane Austen’s other novels in the sense that Austen was in a similar situation to Anne. While her family wasn’t deep in debt and weren’t high-up aristocrats, Austen never married, despite having an attraction to a young man named Tom Lefroy (though the jury is out on whether this was a fling or if she actually liked him), being engaged to a guy named Harris Bigg-Wither (which she ended the morning after he proposed), and supposedly having a romance with a young clergyman in Bath who tragically died shortly after their infatuation began. Whether she actually loved any of these men is a topic of debate, but within Persuasion, it feels as though she wrote from personal experience. The pain that Anne feels at being single and losing her shot feels as though it came from Jane’s own sadness. Though heartbreak appears in several of Austen’s books (i.e. Sense and Sensibility), here, it feels deeper and more cutting, like Jane was writing about something closer to home.
Because of that, the end of the book feels so much more deserved. Yes, the heroines of other works like Sense and Sensibility who go through heartbreak also get endings that feel consistent with their journeys and are well-earned, but because Persuasion is largely about overcoming heartbreak and rediscovering love, the end is that much better. It’s more satisfying to know that Anne has become the person she used to be – hopeful, in love, and beautiful again – instead of despairing.
For the hopeless romantics, Persuasion is a book that expresses romantic longing better than many of Jane Austen’s other works.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Blog #Books #BritishLiterature #ClassicLiterature #JaneAusten #OpinionPeice #Persuasion #Review #romance #Writing -
Review: Persuasion – One of Jane Austen’s Most Underrated Books. (Spoilers)
Last Christmas, one of the books I received was Jane Austen’s Persuasion, which, as the title says, is possibly one of her most underrated books. While we have all heard of Pride and Prejudice, and maybe some of her other stories such as Sense and Sensibility or Emma, most of us probably aren’t familiar with Persuasion, despite it being one of the most heart-wrenchingly written romances Jane Austen ever put to paper.
Set in Regency-era England, Persuasion follows Anne Elliot, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat whose poor spending habits have landed the family deep in debt. In an attempt to get out of debt, the Elliot family is forced to rent out their estate to some wealthy tenants and move to their new home in Bath. However, the guy renting their estate isn’t just a random guy, but is actually Admiral Croft, who is married to the sister of Anne’s former suitor Captain Fredrick Wentworth, the man whom she was persuaded to break up with 8 years prior to the events of the book. Thus, Anne and Wentworth are forced to reconnect and confront their lingering feelings for each other through a series of misunderstandings.
With that description alone, it is understandable why Persuasion holds such a special place in the hearts of Jane Austen fans everywhere. Whereas most of Austen’s books center around young women falling in love for the first time, Persuasion focuses on an older heroine (Anne is 27) who has despaired of ever finding a husband and believes that Wentworth would never again want her after she rejected him. Thus, instead of the story necessarily focusing on finding a husband (though that’s a big part of it), it focuses more on forgiveness and the rekindling of the relationship between the two, and Anne’s rediscovery of hope and joy after being mired in despair for so long.
Besides that, Persuasion also feels different compared to some of Jane Austen’s other novels in the sense that Austen was in a similar situation to Anne. While her family wasn’t deep in debt and weren’t high-up aristocrats, Austen never married, despite having an attraction to a young man named Tom Lefroy (though the jury is out on whether this was a fling or if she actually liked him), being engaged to a guy named Harris Bigg-Wither (which she ended the morning after he proposed), and supposedly having a romance with a young clergyman in Bath who tragically died shortly after their infatuation began. Whether she actually loved any of these men is a topic of debate, but within Persuasion, it feels as though she wrote from personal experience. The pain that Anne feels at being single and losing her shot feels as though it came from Jane’s own sadness. Though heartbreak appears in several of Austen’s books (i.e. Sense and Sensibility), here, it feels deeper and more cutting, like Jane was writing about something closer to home.
Because of that, the end of the book feels so much more deserved. Yes, the heroines of other works like Sense and Sensibility who go through heartbreak also get endings that feel consistent with their journeys and are well-earned, but because Persuasion is largely about overcoming heartbreak and rediscovering love, the end is that much better. It’s more satisfying to know that Anne has become the person she used to be – hopeful, in love, and beautiful again – instead of despairing.
For the hopeless romantics, Persuasion is a book that expresses romantic longing better than many of Jane Austen’s other works.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Blog #BookReview #Books #BritishLiterature #ClassicLiterature #fiction #JaneAusten #literature #OpinionPeice #Persuasion #Review #romance #Writing -
Ach ja, es gibt Reaktionen aufs eigene Schreiben, die freuen:
„Mal sehen, wie lange mein Grinsen im Gesicht mich noch durch den Abend trägt...."
Reaktion auf „Mister Bennet", (m)eine Fortsetzung von „Stolz und Vorurteil“. Und ich grinse jetzt auch!
#Lesereaktion #MisterBennt #JaneAusten #Fortsetzung #StolzUndVorurteil #PrideAndPrejudice #BelovedJane
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Ach ja, es gibt Reaktionen aufs eigene Schreiben, die freuen:
„Mal sehen, wie lange mein Grinsen im Gesicht mich noch durch den Abend trägt...."
Reaktion auf „Mister Bennet", (m)eine Fortsetzung von „Stolz und Vorurteil“. Und ich grinse jetzt auch!
#Lesereaktion #MisterBennt #JaneAusten #Fortsetzung #StolzUndVorurteil #PrideAndPrejudice #BelovedJane
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zum Zitatemontag etwas aus „Mister Bennet“ - auch damals war klar, dass Kinder Betreuung brauchen:
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zum Zitatemontag etwas aus „Mister Bennet“ - auch damals war klar, dass Kinder Betreuung brauchen:
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Manchester Evening News: Number one for news, opinion, sport & celebrity news [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·'Faultless' BBC period drama hailed 'heartwarming masterpiece'
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Zum Zitatemontag ein Sommertag in Longbourn mit einer Schreibaufgabe nach dem Spaziergang. Es ist der erste Unterrichtstag …
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Zum Zitatemontag ein Sommertag in Longbourn mit einer Schreibaufgabe nach dem Spaziergang. Es ist der erste Unterrichtstag …
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Exposição conta vida e obra da escritora britânica Jane Austen
- cijnusp
https://jornal.usp.br/cultura/exposicao-conta-vida-e-obra-da-escritora-britanica-jane-austen/
#Cultura #Escrita #Exposio #Inglaterra #JaneAusten #Literatura #Orgulhoepreconceito #Sculo18 -
Darf ich allen, die Jane Austen mögen, noch einmal meinen „Mister Bennet“ ans Herz legen?
Eine Fortsetzung von „Stolz und Vorurteil“, in der der „Titelheld“ nach dem Tod seiner Frau seine zwei ledigen Töchter ins Leben entlassen muss.https://shop.autorenwelt.de/products/mister-bennet-von-heike-baller?variant=56594454675781
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Darf ich allen, die Jane Austen mögen, noch einmal meinen „Mister Bennet“ ans Herz legen?
Eine Fortsetzung von „Stolz und Vorurteil“, in der der „Titelheld“ nach dem Tod seiner Frau seine zwei ledigen Töchter ins Leben entlassen muss.https://shop.autorenwelt.de/products/mister-bennet-von-heike-baller?variant=56594454675781
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #BooksandComics #Romance #Books #JaneAusten 7 Romance Books That Are Perfect From the First Page to the Last http://dlvr.it/TTkqsg
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #BooksandComics #Romance #Books #JaneAusten 7 Romance Books That Are Perfect From the First Page to the Last http://dlvr.it/TTkqsg
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There are remarkable parallels between Pride and Prejudice and Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
Jane Austen started writing P&P in 1796, the year Wakefield was born.
The villainous Wickham plots to elope to Gretna Green with the 15 year old heiress Georgiana Darcy.
The villainous Wakefield eloped to Gretna Green with the 15 year old heiress Ellen Turner.Wickham hopes to get his hands on Miss Darcy's £30,000.
Wakefield would have got £30,000 through his first wife Eliza Pattle, had she survived to her 21st birthday.Unlike Eliza and Georgiana (and Lydia Bennet), Ellen's consent was obtained unwillingly and by deception. Wakefield claimed that only by marrying him could she save her father from (completely fictional) financial ruin. The marriage was subsequently dissolved by a special act of Parliament.
Readers speculate as to what various characters' futures might have held after the end of the book. Might Wickham's have included both prison and Parliament, as it did for Wakefield?
#PrideAndPrejudice #EdwardGibbonWakefield #ShrigleyAbduction #JaneAusten #history -
Zum Zitatemontag ein Ausschnitt aus „Mister Bennet“ – wir sind in einem Konzert gelandet.
#Zitatemontag #MisterBennet #JaneAusten #Fanfiktion #StolzUndVorurteil #PriedAndPrejudice
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Zum Zitatemontag ein Ausschnitt aus „Mister Bennet“ – wir sind in einem Konzert gelandet.
#Zitatemontag #MisterBennet #JaneAusten #Fanfiktion #StolzUndVorurteil #PriedAndPrejudice
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"I am glad I have done being in love with him. I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning”.
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Wenn hier Buchhandlungen mitlesen, die anlässlich des zu erwartenden Jane-Austen-Highs im Herbst (neue Verfilmungen!) an einer Lesung aus diesem Bereich interessiert sind, lege ich ihnen meinen Bericht zu meiner eigenen Autorinnenlesung ans Herz:
https://www.koelner-leselust.de/meine-erste-autorinnenlesung-mit-mister-bennet/#Buchhandlung #Lesung #JaneAusten #FanFiction #MisterBennet #Autorinnenlesung #Buchbubble
Ich neige nicht zu Eigenlob – aber vortragen kann ich …
Es gibt da auch einen Link zur Einschätzung besagter Buchhandlung 🙃 -
Wenn hier Buchhandlungen mitlesen, die anlässlich des zu erwartenden Jane-Austen-Highs im Herbst (neue Verfilmungen!) an einer Lesung aus diesem Bereich interessiert sind, lege ich ihnen meinen Bericht zu meiner eigenen Autorinnenlesung ans Herz:
https://www.koelner-leselust.de/meine-erste-autorinnenlesung-mit-mister-bennet/#Buchhandlung #Lesung #JaneAusten #FanFiction #MisterBennet #Autorinnenlesung #Buchbubble
Ich neige nicht zu Eigenlob – aber vortragen kann ich …
Es gibt da auch einen Link zur Einschätzung besagter Buchhandlung 🙃 -
Finis!
5/5 stars. If I didn't already have this on my own shelf, I would endeavour to have it included. So strange to find a story from over 200 years ago so relatable.
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In Jane Austen's novels, anyone with even a minor title is almost inevitably a buffoon and/or a villain. Her writing was aggressively anti-aristocratic, focussed on the provincial gentry (bourgeoisie).
Contemporary Austen-tribute books and series — e.g. "Regency-Core" like Bridgerton, where the leads are aristocratic lords and ladies —entirely miss the point.
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In Jane Austen's novels, anyone with even a minor title is almost inevitably a buffoon and/or a villain. Her writing was aggressively anti-aristocratic, focussed on the provincial gentry (bourgeoisie).
Contemporary Austen-tribute books and series — e.g. "Regency-Core" like Bridgerton, where the leads are aristocratic lords and ladies —entirely miss the point.
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Jane Austen's satire anticipated NotAllMen by over two centuries:
I will only add in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well-informed themselves to desire anything more in women than ignorance.
— Northanger Abbey (1799, publ. 1817)
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Jane Austen's satire anticipated NotAllMen by over two centuries:
I will only add in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well-informed themselves to desire anything more in women than ignorance.
— Northanger Abbey (1799, publ. 1817)
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Zum Zitatenmontag ein Ausschnitt aus „Mister Bennet“ – das Erbe der Bennet-Schwestern ist klein; ihre Heiratschancen sind demnach nicht glänzend. Dem kann abgeholfen werden.
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Zum Zitatenmontag ein Ausschnitt aus „Mister Bennet“ – das Erbe der Bennet-Schwestern ist klein; ihre Heiratschancen sind demnach nicht glänzend. Dem kann abgeholfen werden.
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My Endearment game arrived! Yes I went for the fully Extra version. I am a huge Jane Austen girlie, and the fact that there is a solo play mode convinced me.
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My Endearment game arrived! Yes I went for the fully Extra version. I am a huge Jane Austen girlie, and the fact that there is a solo play mode convinced me.
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‘There’s an aura about it’: 210-year-old first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma on display in Melbourne
By Emma JoyceThe major acquisition is part of an initiative to redress the gender imbalance in the State Library of Victoria’s rare books collection
#JaneAusten #Books #Victoria #Australianews #Libraries #Australianbooks #Culture #EmmaJoyce
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‘There’s an aura about it’: 210-year-old first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma on display in Melbourne
By Emma JoyceThe major acquisition is part of an initiative to redress the gender imbalance in the State Library of Victoria’s rare books collection
#JaneAusten #Books #Victoria #Australianews #Libraries #Australianbooks #Culture #EmmaJoyce
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#JaneAustenJuly 2026 What I’ll be reading
We’re again at #JaneAustenJuly. This year, I’ll be (re)reading Emma and the non-fiction A Portrait of Jane Austen by David Cecil, published in 1978, that some dear friends gift me recently from their visit to Hay-on-Wye (yes, the Book Town).
You can check my past post with direct links to all the works of Jane Austen from Project Gutenberg, that you can read anywhere. If you have a Kobo, you may prefer the kepub format (statistics and so on), so here’s the link to Austen’s works at Standard Ebooks.
What will you be reading for #JaneAustenJuly? :-)
#BookLook #books #Emma #JaneAusten #JaneAustenJuly #publicDomain #readings -
#JaneAustenJuly 2026 What I’ll be reading
We’re again at #JaneAustenJuly. This year, I’ll be (re)reading Emma and the non-fiction A Portrait of Jane Austen by David Cecil, published in 1978, that some dear friends gift me recently from their visit to Hay-on-Wye (yes, the Book Town).
You can check my past post with direct links to all the works of Jane Austen from Project Gutenberg, that you can read anywhere. If you have a Kobo, you may prefer the kepub format (statistics and so on), so here’s the link to Austen’s works at Standard Ebooks.
What will you be reading for #JaneAustenJuly? :-)
#BookLook #books #Emma #JaneAusten #JaneAustenJuly #publicDomain #readings -
“La! I cannot believe you would do something so unladylike, Lizzy.”
“We must try very hard not to be seen.”
“Just see if you can keep up with me.”Here's a scene from Aether and Ego, my steampunk retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in 1845 outer space. The picture is adapted from one by Hugh Thomson, a Victorian-era Irish artist who was best known for his pen-and-ink line drawings in re-issues of classic novels and plays, including all of Jane Austen’s novels.
His illustration that I’ve adapted for my novel in this time-lapse “making of” video comes from the 1894 edition from publisher George Allen, with the famous peacock cover in forest green stamped in gold.
Links for my novel:
My publisher, @inannapub: https://inanna.ca/product/aether-and-ego/
List of buying options: https://joannemerriam.com/books/aether-and-ego/#orders#booksta #bookstagram #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #ButInSpace
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“La! I cannot believe you would do something so unladylike, Lizzy.”
“We must try very hard not to be seen.”
“Just see if you can keep up with me.”Here's a scene from Aether and Ego, my steampunk retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in 1845 outer space. The picture is adapted from one by Hugh Thomson, a Victorian-era Irish artist who was best known for his pen-and-ink line drawings in re-issues of classic novels and plays, including all of Jane Austen’s novels.
His illustration that I’ve adapted for my novel in this time-lapse “making of” video comes from the 1894 edition from publisher George Allen, with the famous peacock cover in forest green stamped in gold.
Links for my novel:
My publisher, @inannapub: https://inanna.ca/product/aether-and-ego/
List of buying options: https://joannemerriam.com/books/aether-and-ego/#orders#booksta #bookstagram #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #ButInSpace
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The new Sense and Sensibility trailer is here, but many fans are revisiting Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain. Here's why the Tamil classic remains one of the best Jane Austen adaptations. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/why-kandukondain-kandukondain-is-still-better-than-other-sense-and-sensibility-adaptations-p7tethyk?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SenseAndSensibility #KandukondainKandukondain #JaneAusten
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Zum Zitatemontag ein Ausschnitt aus „Mister Bennet“, in dem der neue Nachbar seinen Garten präsentiert.