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Persuasion – The Novelization of the movie Persuasion based on the novel by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

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My favorite Jane Austen and my first one too. I also think that I might be teaching this book to AP students this year. It’s not as funny as some of the others, but it’s also not as long, but Anne Elliot is such a whole, wonderful character who goes through a trying, if fruitful, emotional journey in this novel that is so well-rendered that it’s impossible to dislike. In the first few chapters of the book, we first meet Anne’s father, who is in […]

Gothic Bathos

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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All good things come to an end.  Reviewing Northanger Abbey finalizes my happy stint as the chair of the Jane Austen Book Club. While Northanger Abbey was Jane Austen’s first completed novel in 1803, it was only published posthumously together with Persuasion in 1817. The book follows 12 months in the life of 17-year-old Miss Catharine Morland who lives in a happy family with comfortable means (her father is a country clergyman). Catharine is naive as befits young ladies of her age. She likes reading […]

Hit and Miss: Persuasion and Emma

Emma by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

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The Jane Austen Book Club continues with a double feature: Emma and Persuasion Emma was the last book published during Jane Austen’s lifetime. Miss Emma Woodcock is a 21 years old second daughter of Mr Woodcock. She is handsome, clever, and rich – all the desirable qualities. And in Persuasion, Miss Anne Elliot is a 27 years old middle daughter of (baronet) Sir Walter Elliot. Like all other Jane Austen’s heroines Emma and Anne dwell in the countryside and lead most comfortable lives. Where the […]

He Had it Coming

The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray

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George Wickham is the most notorious predator in Jane Austen’s oeuvre. Have you read Courtney Milan’s analysis of Pride and Prejudice, “Pride and Predators”? You should. For a non-violent person, I am sure am ok with the murder of a fictional character. When I saw the title, The Murder of Mr. Wickham, I did a little mental fist pump and said, “yes!!” So, I was predisposed to enjoy this. Gray has chosen to make her two primary POV characters, Juliet Tilney and Jonathon Darcy. Juliet is […]

Price is Right, or, Untainted Love

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

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It is a bold move from Jane Austen to introduce the first proper conflict by the two-thirds mark. I’m referring, of course, to the moment when Fanny Price commences her journey of becoming an individual with agency: her refusal to marry Mr. Crawford. Even if it displeases the mighty Sir Thomas, her uncle. Prior to this event the name of the book, Mansfield Park really was accurate: Jane Austen was writing about the place, people that live there, and events that occur. However, the heroine […]

Kiss and Make Up

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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It’s always such a pleasure to visit dear old friends, to be instantly on the same wavelength. That’s Pride and Prejudice – which still manages to surprise me positively each time I read it. It is a page-turner; it is superlative. I’m concentrating on a couple of issues only, so this is not a comprehensive review. Discussions. In the previous novel (chronologically), Sense and Sensibility, the discussions were mostly subdued, pokerfaced (by Elinor to hide her knowlegde and to shield Marianne or he mother, for […]



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