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That other speaker Saturday evening whose name eluded me earlier was Katie Childs, exec dr of Chawton House - not the Bath Austen Museum. Arnie

DIANA: "Glad to hear the conference was one of the best, Arnie - would you kindly tell a bit more, such as what were some of the "best" things about it?" Hi Diana! Will you be coming to Baltimore next

Glad to hear the conference was one of the best, Arnie - would you kindly tell a bit more, such as what were some of the "best" things about it? ?Diana

As I do not believe Jane Fairfax is pregnant,I took her increased bloom to be because Frank Churchill is nearby. That is before she is treated badly by hm. Nancy

Even more brilliant, Liz Anne - indeed!! With Austen it sometimes is just a single word, that can, like Archimedes's proverbial lever, exert tremendous force on the mind of a sensitive reader like

??Thank you very much, Liz Anne — yes, as you know well, I’m approaching the 20th anniversary of my insight that Jane Fairfax says “It must be born(e)” near the end of the novel, because

This is another example of Austen’s ambiguity. What does “there” in *”There, not to be vulgar, was distinction, and merit."* “There” could refer to 1. Jane Fairfax or 2. Highbury. Liz Anne

The word vulgar did not have any meaning of obscenity,it just meant "common" such as the common people- laborers and such. The word still retained the meaning it had when the Vulgate Bible was

Arnie, I interpreted Emma's comment, "There, not to be vulgar, was distinction, and merit.", to mean that Emma thought that no one in Highbury had any elegance, and that few were not vulgar. I also

Enjoy! It was nice chatting with you and our table mates at the banquet - it was well worth the effort of assembling a good. Arnie

I'm still in Cleveland. Going to the Football Hall of Fame in Canton Monday, then back to Portland Monday evening. <arnieperlstein@...> wrote:

Interesting, Stephanie, thanks!! Have you made it back to Pdx yet? I’m about to take off from Sea-Tac to get back to Portland before midnight. Wasn’t it a great AGM?? Arnie

I have always thought that this was about the vulgarity of presuming to compliment a person's "merit" based strictly on their appearance. <arnieperlstein@...> wrote:

[Jane’s] eyes, a deep grey, with dark eye-lashes and eyebrows, had never been denied their praise; but the skin, which she had been used to cavil at, as wanting colour, had a clearness and delicacy

The conference (live) was one of the better ones among the 15 I’ve attended since 2005. Arnie

2nd day of 3. Today I found only one of the JASNA talks of interest to me; the speakers were aiming at someone who knows less. Savige's talk about Austen's copy of Isaac D'Istaeli's Curiosities of

ME BEFORE: "Nope, I don’t buy that one at all. You seem to accept Darcy’s view of what is proper and what is not . . ." DOROTHY: "Actually, my point was that Bingley accepts Darcy’s view. There

Though BIngley had money from his father, he and his sisters really didn't know society the way Darcy would . Darcy's family had moved in fairly high circles of society. His father was wealthy and

Arnie: Nope, I don’t buy that one at all. You seem to accept Darcy’s view of what is proper and what is not . . . Actually, my point was that Bingley accepts Darcy’s view. There is a lot made of

Never sure. I'll find out that morning. Ellen