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Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @[email protected] · 2026-09-11 · 12:44 UTC

Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #Clueless The Best Live-Action Version of Every Jane Austen Heroine http://dlvr.it/TVR5BX

#movie #janeausten #prideandprejudice #clueless

Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @[email protected] · 2026-09-11 · 12:44 UTC

Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #Clueless The Best Live-Action Version of Every Jane Austen Heroine http://dlvr.it/TVR5BX

#clueless #prideandprejudice #janeausten #movie

Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @[email protected] · 2026-09-11 · 12:44 UTC

Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #Clueless The Best Live-Action Version of Every Jane Austen Heroine http://dlvr.it/TVR5BX

#movie #janeausten #prideandprejudice #clueless

Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @[email protected] · 2026-09-11 · 12:44 UTC

Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #Clueless The Best Live-Action Version of Every Jane Austen Heroine http://dlvr.it/TVR5BX

#movie #janeausten #prideandprejudice #clueless

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 15:05 UTC

“Miss Ferrier avowedly made thumb-nail sketches,—as is proved in one of the few surviving letters to or from her,—out of which grew the merciless caricatures that created her fame”

—an 1893 article in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 contrasting Sussan Ferrier & Jane Austen

8/10

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1893/06/miss-austen-and-miss-ferrier/529989/

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten

#janeausten #susanferrier #womenwriters #romanticism #19thcentury #18thcentury

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 14:57 UTC

“It is a truth universally acknowledged…”

Susan Ferrier’s 2nd novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 (1824) starts with a nod & wink to Jane Austen’s 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 (1813). In 1818, Blackwood’s paid £150 for 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦; it is a testament to Ferrier’s popularity that they paid £1000 for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

2/10

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten

#janeausten #susanferrier #womenwriters #romanticism #19thcentury #18thcentury

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 14:56 UTC

Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels – 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, & 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 – are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary Jane Austen, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious…

A 🎂🧵

1/10

https://www.nls.uk/collections/stories/literature-and-poetry/susan-ferrier-and-her-contemporaries/

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten #humour #satire

#satire #humour #janeausten #susanferrier #womenwriters #romanticism

Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth @[email protected] · 2026-09-02 · 06:08 UTC

Went to a "Theatre walk", where the audience walked with the performers across our museum village to all locations where the acts took place. Real horses involved too. Incredibly well done performance of "pride & prejudice" by a group of young people. #JaneAusten #theatre #adolescents

#adolescents #theatre #janeausten

The Guardian Feeds @[email protected] · 2026-08-18 · 18:10 UTC

The Guardian view on writers’ houses: a museum of one’s own | Editorial
By Editorial

The Wordsworth Trust has acquired a second home. Cherished authors including George Eliot don’t even have one

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/18/the-guardian-view-on-writers-houses-a-museum-of-ones-own

#Museums #Culture #JaneAusten #TSEliot #WilliamWordsworth #VirginiaWoolf #VSNaipaul #Books #TheNationalTrust #Art #UKnews #TheGuardian #Editorial

#museums #culture #janeausten #tseliot #williamwordsworth #virginiawoolf

The Tanuki Corner @[email protected] · 2026-08-12 · 13:34 UTC

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

#blog #books #britishliterature #classicliterature #janeausten #opinionpeice

Ireland @[email protected] · 2026-07-20 · 01:11 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/ie/594298/ Reading has become a hobby for which you need equipment, like scuba diving – The Irish Times #AlexandreDumas #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #JaneAusten #JohnSteinbeck #MarleneDietrich #TikTok #YourStories

#yourstories #tiktok #marlenedietrich #johnsteinbeck #janeausten #ireland

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-03 · 16:38 UTC

A quotation from Jane Austen

We are of each an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all of the eclat of a proverb.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Pride and Prejudice, ch. 18 [Elizabeth] (1813)

More about this quote: wist.info/austen-jane/64549/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #janeausten #character #chitchat #conversation #disposition #ego #introvert #pride #profundity #silence #speaking

#ego #pride #quote #silence #quotes #janeausten

paula simoes' blog @[email protected] · 2026-05-16 · 07:14 UTC

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Who is the author with more works in the Guardian’s list of 100 greatest novels of all time?

The Guardian made a list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. You can see the list here, with links to how Guardian’s made it. First place of the list is George Eliot with Middlemarch, but I thought to check which authors had more works in this list. And it’s Virginia Woolf with five books!

Second place in the number of the novels in the list are Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, both with four books.

Best part? There all in public domain, so you want to start with any of these four authors, right here, right now, head to Project Gutenberg and let’s read!

Books by George Eliot – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90

Books by Virginia Woolf – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

Books by Jane Austen – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68

Books by Charles Dickens – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

#BookLook #books #CharlesDickens #Classics #GeorgeEliot #GreatestNovels #Guardian #JaneAusten #publicDomain #readings #VirginiaWoolf

#booklook #books #charlesdickens #classics #georgeeliot #greatestnovels

Fake Book Club Podcast @fakebookclubpodcast.wordpress.com@fakebookclubpodcast.wordpress.com · 2026-03-31 · 00:01 UTC

Season 3 Episode 2: Our Literary Unpopular Opinions

Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast, Season three, episode two! We’re sharing our unpopular literary opinions about books, reading, and romance. Will you agree or disagree? Do we end this episode with our friendship intact? Listen and find out…

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