“My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?”
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Pride and Prejudice’
February 1, 2009
Ethics and Estates
July 19, 2007
Impropriety by the Seaside I
Modern day readers of Jane Austen may well be baffled by the scandalous reputation of seaside resorts in Georgian Britain. The word ‘resorts’ refers not to those mega complex hotel monstrosities that can currently be seen ruining the landscape of exotic locales the world over but simply a destination that is an attraction in itself, [...]
July 11, 2007
Books on Tape Techie Time
There are a small handful of Jane Austen related podcasts presently available through iTunes. Among the Austen podcasts however I can only honestly recommend one, but I do so warmly and whole heartedly.
The majority of the present Austen podcast selection is rather mediocre but in the Higher Education category of podcasts there is a unabridged [...]
July 3, 2007
Austen and The Picturesque Part II
Austen and the Picturesque Part I
While Horace Walpole’s taste developed to appreciate the more grandly Gothic and Sublime¹, and Thomas Gray the more neoclassical aesthetics of The Beautiful¹, the nitty gritty of the Picturesque was taken up by William Wordsworth in poetry, William Gilpin in travel essays, Uvedale Price² and Richard Payne Knight³ in appreciation essays and [...]
