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Obviously, Nancy, you disagree with the author of that article, and even more so with me. His rant may have been against imagining English husbands murdering or confining their wives - but I say it

Henry's rant wasn't about marriage. It was about riots. It was written while the Gordon Anti-Papist riots were still remembered by older people. I do not find women isolated in spooky castles very

Ellen, This is scholarly writing about literature that is on a much higher standard than I typically see in this sort of mainstream media article about Austen (or Austen-related) The best part of

Ellen, You and I have disagreed about a thousand things over nearly 25 years, but on this point, we are in 100% agreement - I've cited her line a hundred times or more about hating the Prince Regent

I have to say that after all for me at this point in my life while I can discover new genres or (to me) male authors I like for real, my driving desire and interest is to read books & essays by women.

A new edition the occasion of this review with links to other essays on Radcliffe. I am chuffed because what is said about her and her books is precisely my view and I agree she was ridiculed and

Some would bet on everything including which raindrop would get to the bottom of the window first. Two people could bet on a game even if others wouldn't. It really depended on the people. Nancy

Do any of you know whether gambling was a common practice with billiard games played in private homes/clubs in Regency Era? I'm intrigued since this is where John Thornton and General Tilney met up,

I have never denied Jane Austen's disdain for serial pregnancy. She isn't really pleased with pregnancy at all. I have never agreed that Austen put this into any book and particularly not NA where the

Thank you Nancy. Actually another article about Pamela's pregnancy that actually outlines her "career" as a pregnant wife is this one: The Pregnant Pamela: Characterization and Popular Medical

Mr. B was definitely the father. I found the article on JSTOR South Atlantic Review N.1 1993 The Edible Woman: Eating and Breast-Feeding in the Novels of Samuel Richardson Laura Fasick

I think most editions of Pamela are abbreviated and the part of their life after marriage left out. I don't remember the name of the journal in which I found the article. It was the journal of a

NANCY: "I think Mr. B is referring to a baby Pamela is carrying. A part of the book that is less published mentions that Pamela had a baby son and that Mr. B thought that her nursing the baby herself

I think Mr. B is referring to a baby Pamela is carrying. A part of the book that is less published mentions that Pamela had a baby son and that Mr. B thought that her nursing the baby herself would

At the end of Richardson’s *Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded*, after Mr. B has married Pamela, he reveals to Pamela the story of his illegitimate daughter, Miss Goodwin. He does this in a back-handed way,

I am truly delighted that my blog-essay called A Calendar for Sense and Sensibility is now up on, and part of Sarah Emsley's Summer party for Jane Austen's S&S. It's based on my timelines from and for

I'm now writing a brief essay on the timeline & Tuesday in S&S (and other Austen novels) for Sarah Emley's blog -- perfect excuse to spend evening wallowing in the Ang Lee/Emma Thompon 1995 S&S and

I presume this will be a well- attended event, a very memorable one next summer. I hope it will have some hybrid events, and much be put on YouTube eventually. Ellen ---------- Forwarded message

I thought it was generally accepted that both S&S and P&P were first written as epistolary novels. That was the general mode of novels at the time those were written ,though authors were starting to