Mrs. Gardiner's Curious Reaction
Thank you, Carolyn, Dorothy, and Tamar for your replies, which are fine as
far as they go. However, none of you addressed what I find to be the
curious part of the passage I quoted, which was the
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Arnie Perlstein
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Re: Mrs. Gardiner's Curious Reaction
To me, it seems clear that Mrs Gardiner is
accustomed to talking to herself aloud.
The sentence is "she cried", not "she thought".
It is followed, as Lizzy moves out of earshot,
by a followup
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Tamar Lindsay
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Re: Mrs. Gardiner's Curious Reaction
Arnie,
To add to Caroline¡¯s excellent analysis, I¡¯ll say that both Mr and Mrs Gardiner have been gradually becoming aware that something more than they realized is going on between Darcy and
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Dorothy Gannon
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Re: Mrs. Gardiner's Curious Reaction
Hello Arnie, I¡¯m not sure what you mean by ¡®strange¡¯. Here is how I
understand the passage:
Smart Mrs. Gardiner has noticed the special ¡°chemistry¡± between Lizzy
and Darcy previously (apart
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Caroline Morwinsky
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Mrs. Gardiner's Curious Reaction
At the very end of Ch. 46 of P&P, we read the following narrative passage
right after Elizabeth reads Jane¡¯s two letters describing the Lydia-Wickham
fracas:
¡°She was wild to be at home¡ªto
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Arnie Perlstein
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Happy New Year!
To provide closure, anticipating Twelfth Night
A true story to start the new year with. Elinor's collar and tag,
saying "Ellie" on one side & my cell phone number on the other, came
off. I found it
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Ellen Moody
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Deep enjoyment from a book this year that you can remember
For me the question, What was your favorite book this year? is usually
irritatingly meaningless. Most of the time without notes I can't
remember exactly what I read in one year year as opposed to the
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Ellen Moody
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Christmas bells by Longfellow
Wishing for everyone I reach on groups.io, a peaceful meaningful holiday time
Famous 19th century poem; it is a American Civil War one. (As if I
were a game), can you spot the line that gives this
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Ellen Moody
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Correction : OT : A deconstruction of the long-eighteenth-century coming-out novel
My paper which involves reading a Victorian novel as a deconstruction of the long-eighteenth-century coming-out novel has just been published in a print journal. The reference is "No Name as a
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Kishor Kale
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OT : A deconstruction of the late-eighteenth-century coming out novel
My paper which involves reading a Victorian novel as a deconstruction of the long-eighteenth-century coming-out novel has just been published in a print journal. The reference is "No Name as a
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Kishor Kale
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Christmas cheer, a second blog, mostly 18thc & Austen derived
Everything here people have seen (two from other years) but the final
two clips, from the cobb & Lme, Persuasion 2008, and from Sanditon,
one of the more romantic dance
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Ellen Moody
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Having a Ball ~ a comment and a question
Thank you for sharing this, Dorothy - I had never encountered this BBC production before, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I loved that it was shot at Chawton House, as I have been in all those rooms and
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dianabirchall
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Re: Dance and the Seashore -- Having a Ball ~ and a swim or boat ride
Gloves were worn at dances. These were not the same gloves worn outside
the house or in cold weather. Ladies had to have many pairs of gloves.
The thinnest and most elevate were for dancing. They
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Nancy Mayer
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Re: Dance and the Seashore -- Having a Ball ~ and a swim or boat ride
I just noticed this comment: I haven¡¯t followed the entire thread, so pardon me if this is out of place.
I can say that gloves were, absolutely, worn in every single reconstruction of dance from
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Blake Meike
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Re: Dance and the Seashore -- Having a Ball ~ and a swim or boat ride
I imagine they took their gloves off. The ostensiblypupose was to preclude human skin touching human skin direct;y, so it was directed related to dancing.
I will try to remember to watch this video
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Ellen Moody
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Having a Ball ~ a comment and a question
The gloves are off. Or are they?
Having a Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21cNaGc9XDQ
Just in time for your holiday viewing. This very enjoyable BBC production resurfaced on Youtube a couple
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Dorothy Gannon
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Re: Lady Caroline Lamb in Antonia Fraser's biography
I more or less agree, Nancy. Where she has importance for us is as a
somewhat atypical aristocratic woman of her time.
Ellen
<regencyresearcher@...> wrote:
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Ellen Moody
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Re: Lady Caroline Lamb in Antonia Fraser's biography
I haven't read the biography of lady Caroline Lamb s do not know which
version of her life they portray. We read Glenarvon as a group, once.It
needed a good editor.Most who managed to get through the
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Nancy Mayer
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Lady Caroline Lamb in Antonia Fraser's biography
I read about half, was overwhelmed by other commitments and gave it
up, partly because it is not literary, and like other of Fraser's many
biographies of aristocratic women (one on Oliver Cromwell) I
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Ellen Moody
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Re: Angela Youngman, The Dark Side of Jane Austen
Life in the navy wasn't easy but Austen's brothers were officers and not
men impressed into service.They ordered the flogging and didn't endure
them. Floggings were horrible and an image of the
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Nancy Mayer
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