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Julie Andrews to Narrate Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’ for Noiser Podcast Network (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Global #News #Emma #JaneAusten #JulieAndrewshttps://variety.com/2026/digital/global/julie-andrews-narrate-jane-austen-emma-1236838239/
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The Guardian view on writers’ houses: a museum of one’s own | Editorial
By EditorialThe Wordsworth Trust has acquired a second home. Cherished authors including George Eliot don’t even have one
#Museums #Culture #JaneAusten #TSEliot #WilliamWordsworth #VirginiaWoolf #VSNaipaul #Books #TheNationalTrust #Art #UKnews #TheGuardian #Editorial
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- Empire UK : naissance de Joseph Mallord William #Turner (cf 1851) #art d'un père barbier et #JaneAusten (cf 1809 1817) de parents non mariés, dont père est le révérend George Austen. -
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- Empire UK : le père de #JaneAusten prend sa retraite -> déménagement de la famille dans ville thermale #eau Bath dans le Somerset. -
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 -
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 ein Sommertag in Longbourn mit einer Schreibaufgabe nach dem Spaziergang. Es ist der erste Unterrichtstag …
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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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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?
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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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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 …
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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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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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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.