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stormy-skyzzzzzz · 22 hours

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there is nothing more attractive than a man who reads.

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boleynecklace · 3 days

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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gifharbor · 3 days

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What strange creatures men are. What do they want from us? Perhaps they see us not as people but as playthings, Elinor. — SENSE & SENSIBILITY (2008)

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bethanydelleman · 20 hours

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After Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill married, would Frank have been expected to supplement the income of Mrs and Miss Bates to give them a better standard of living? A couple of hundred pounds would surely have increased their comfort a good deal.

Whether you were expected or not to provide for your wife's aunt and grandmother, I do think Frank would. He's pretty easy going and he'd know that it would make Jane happy. He may give the Bates some kind of annuity (a regular amount of money per year) or provide them with something like a cottage, similar to what Jane Austen's brother did for his mother and sisters. There would be houses on the Churchill estate that the estate would own and could use for relations.

However, given the advanced age of Mrs. Bates, I've always doubted that they would move her to a cottage near Churchill just because the journey would be too hard on her. I could see Frank supporting them monetarily until Mrs. Bates dies, and then moving Miss Bates.

I cannot remember where I read this (it's driving me mad), but I think it's worth noting that often the head of a gentry family, the primary inheritor, would have around 20-30 people dependent on their income, including their own progeny, wife, and parents, along with siblings and more distant relations. Many people get angry about Austen's brother not providing more for her and her mother, but he likely had many other people who also depended on him.

#question response #emma #jane austen #frank churchill #jane fairfax

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thespilledquotes · 1 day

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I was quiet; but I was not blind.

Jane Austen

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anghraine · 3 days

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Hello, i want to ask about an exchange in Pride and Prejudice between Darcy and Miss Bingley about "fine eyes". Why did Darcy tell Caroline ? I know by "he was thinking of her with some complacency" that he is saying the truth but why did he tell her?And what does "great intrepidity" mean? I am SO confused

In context, Caroline is trying to establish a sense of rapport and bonding between herself and Darcy as part of her general pursuit of him. In this scene, she's emphasizing her familiarity and understanding of him by telling him that she knows what he's thinking. Darcy warns her that she probably doesn't. Caroline then vents her own feelings of contempt that she assumes he shares (not altogether irrationally, though she does completely ignore his reply) and emphasizes their total agreement.

Her attempts are generally pretty transparent, and undoubtedly are very obvious to Darcy here. His reactions to Caroline seem to range from "she's a somewhat irritating but at least familiar and tolerable fellow hater" to "something between sardonic amusement at her expense and active annoyance" to "I am genuinely offended." I think at this point that he's not seriously offended, but does find the whole maneuver pretty contemptible and annoying.

Basically, revealing that he's thinking of something entirely different—the pleasantness of a pretty woman's "fine eyes"—directly rejects Caroline's attempt to claim rapport through understanding him without providing specifics. Caroline does not really pick up on the implicit rejection of what she's trying to do, and deliberately fixes her eyes on him, clearly hoping for some hint that he's referring to her and this is an elaborate form of flirtation. Darcy's identification of the woman with fine eyes as Elizabeth immediately shuts that down.

We know that Darcy will be concerned about the possibility that he's led Elizabeth on after their Netherfield debates, in a way that's both comically arrogant in terms of their actual interactions and severely principled in terms of his sense of appropriate conduct towards women. So I tend to think what's going on here is a mixture of feeling it would be pretty shitty to let Caroline imagine he was thinking about her while, at the same time, being simply annoyed with her.

The "great intrepidity" is tongue-in-cheek, I think—to be intrepid is to be daring and unconcerned with danger. So on the literal level, Darcy is being very daring in revealing his (low-grade at this point) attraction to Elizabeth to Caroline, someone who will obviously be hostile to the idea and be petty and annoying about it. The tongue-in-cheek aspect is that this is all honestly pretty trivial at this point and the only danger at hand is Caroline being slightly shitty. I think it's later suggested that Darcy didn't realize at the time just how irritating this would be, so in terms of his consciousness of danger, the "daring" here is ... real as far as it goes, but the stakes are comically low for him.

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didanagy · 3 days

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

dir. joe wright

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alrightsnaps · 22 hours

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jane, sweetie, i’m so sorry. i’m so sorry that a ugly ass bitch like this would even say that. oh my god. OH MY GOD

#bridgerton #jane austen #idiots gonna idiot

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to-relate · 2 days

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#jane austen #jimin icons #lomography #sophie turner #frosting #green witch #ethan winters #nail #主播 #Ronance #kpop #Romee Strijd #arospec

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firawren · 17 hours

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To me, the funniest thing about Catherine's whole fantasy about the death of Mrs. Tilney is not that she thinks the General murdered her, it's that she thinks she's gonna find some clue about the murder if she looks around the lady's bedroom. A clue that no one else has found in the nine years since she died. That her murderer just let lie around for any of his kids or servants to find. Even Catherine realizes how ridiculous this is as soon as she gets into the room. Oh Catherine, I love you.

#northanger abbey #jane austen #catherine morland

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flowersandfashion · 15 hours

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I'm interpreting this as a parallel between Eloise and Cressida and Harriet and Emma. She is taken under the wing of a bitchy blonde girl who teaches her to conform to high society which ultimately causes her heartache

but more importantly, they're lesbians

#I have vivid memories of when I studied jane austen in uni and in class discussion I said “does anyone else think emma is a lesbian?”#and no one said anything. and the tutor was just like 'ok I think we'll leave it there for today'#I'm sorry. 'I suffer from a disease that makes me view every female character as a lesbian and it's called being smarter than everyone'#bridgerton #eloise bridgerton #jane austen #emma jane austen #emma woodhouse #harriet smith

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mauerbauertraurigkeitvitto · 3 days

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“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense”.

- Pride and Prejudice

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rapha-reads · 10 hours

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Colin mocked Jane Austen by calling Emma a "silly romance" at the beginning of the season but by the end of it I could totally see him pull a Mr Darcy going first "You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased" and then "You have bewitched me body and soul" (you know the rest).

I do hope Pen makes him work for it as old Lizzie does, for all that he put her through.

And also because he dared mocking Dear Jane, that just won't do.

#bridgerton #bridgerton s3 #bridgerton spoilers #polin #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #jane austen #mr darcy #rapha talks #rapha watches shows

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bethanydelleman · 3 days

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This is such a beautiful little sentence, "Emma turned away her head, divided between tears and smiles." Like a true friend, Emma rejoices in Miss Taylor's good luck in marriage but cannot help but feel her own loss. This is so true to life, how often do we congratulate our friends for something which will take them from us!

#jane austen #emma

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bemusedlybespectacled · 1 day

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I'm only including fully-written published novels, so no Sandition or any of the Juvenilia. No "see results," you cowards.

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #sense and sensibility #persuasion #emma #mansfield park #northanger abbey #lady susan #polls #personal

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365coffeethoughts · 2 days

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#coffee thoughts #coffee #life #life lessons #life quotes #365coffeethoughts #love #love quotes #lifestyle #quotes #jane austen #literary #literary quotes #literature

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