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I just noticed something yesterday for the first time after countless readings and considerations of the following memorable speech by Elizabeth to Darcy in Chapter 60, which the narrator

I think it is also a way of indicating very mixed emotions. Mr. Bennet is not only angry, I think he feels betrayed - one of his daughters didn't tattle on her sister. Keeping the secret is, to him, a

Dorothy Thanks for your cogent reply I can tell you that I’ve now discussed this very question in two other Austen venues, and what has emerged is even more ambiguity Turns out you can plausibly

Arnie, I think your first reading is more on the mark. Yes, Jane’s statement is passive voice, but I’ve always interpreted that in part as Jane’s nicey nice way of saying that pretty much

Oh yes Nancy, of course, thank you for pointing to another reading! I see now that this is another one of those deliberately ambiguous bits of narration that JA winked at in her “dull elves”

We need the opinion of people who speak the King's English as it might be something with which they are more familiar. To me it sounds more as though Kitty were angry than that someone was angry at

After Lydia runs off with Wickham, Jane writes to Elizabeth, in part, as follows: “and as to my father, I never in my life saw him so affected. Poor Kitty has anger for having concealed their

Arnie, J.Austen didn't choose the name for NA.She had named it Susan, earlier before she bought it back. She was revising it. The idea that husbands were wretched to wives was part of Catherine's idea

Tamar, That is an excellent parallel you draw between the three Ward (weird) sisters, and Maria, Julia, and Fanny, which was surely intentional on JA's part. As for your comment about the novel title

I have always thought it otherwise: Mr. Norris was thee and needed a wife and he thought it advantageous to marry Lady Bertram's sister. "Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself

Thanks, Tamar. I agree the focus in MP is wide ranging, and to step back a bit from a focus on Fanny makes for a more interesting read and reveals the richness of the novel. Ellen, I wonder whether

Yes the love, mercenary class based marriage, sex-based and women must are central ideas in the novel. You can add others characters from Nancy’s implied perspective

Thank you, Tamar. I agree titles matter: MP is about all that happens in the house, characters, culture, ethics. Yes the sisters are carefully contested as class, money, and lifestyle. I disagree:

It is suggested that Julia's marriage wasn't for love but to escape the ruin of her sister's divorce. The family wasn't ranked high enough socially to be able to withstand the scandal. Julia would

IMansfield Pafk is not titled after a main character (like Emma) nor a character trait (P+P, S+S). It is named after a place (like Northanger Abbey). It would be possible to consider MP as a study of

And of course they have read Lovers Vows before they rehearse it Arnie

On reading plays, let me say we have quite a number of character who read plays. All of them do among the younger characters in Mansfield Park. At night the adults listen to Shakespeare's Henry 8 read

Arnie, I’m convinced that whether or not she imagined her characters reading plays, we can probably be certain she herself certainly read them (and heard them read, à la Henry Crawford’s reading

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Just imagine Darcy and Elizabeth each having recently read this soliloquizing of Benedick's..... "...One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well;