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On Oct 27, 2024, at 10:20?AM, Ellen Moody via groups.io <ellen.moody@...> wrote:

?To Arnie, I can't resist replying I should have guessed you'd end up
condescending and judging. E.M.

On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 12:38?PM Arnie Perlstein via groups.io
<arnieperlstein@...> wrote:
It is indeed your life to live.
Arnie

On Oct 27, 2024, at 8:37?AM, Ellen Moody via groups.io <ellen.moody@...> wrote:

?I do what is in my character to do --
Ellen

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 8:02?PM Arnie Perlstein via groups.io
<arnieperlstein@...> wrote:
Thank you, Tamar, for giving Ellen that good advice to be proactive (and I would add, to ask her loved ones to be proactive on Ellen's behalf) - our health care system responds to the squeaky wheel, and it neglects those who
don't push for more attention and better care.
I would also suggest getting a referral to a physical therapist to assess your condition, Ellen, and perhaps figure out exercises you could be doing my regularly that would preserve and improve your physical capacities.
Hang in there, Ellen.
ARNIE
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 4:32?PM Tamar Lindsay via groups.io <dicconf=
[email protected]> wrote:

I am not a doctor nor anything medical.
That said, my opinion is that you need a second opinion. From a different set of doctors, in a different hospital.
Tell them someone else suggested it might be ischemic, and _ask_ what they think. Also ask what their Plan is for the continuing weakness and lack of use of the leg. Be sure to use the word "plan" - I hear that it has significant meaning in a medical context.
This all advice I have seen for getting past the blinkers and egos.

On Oct 27, 2024, at 10:20?AM, Ellen Moody via groups.io <ellen.moody@...> wrote:

?To Arnie, I can't resist replying I should have guessed you'd end up
condescending and judging. E.M.

On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 12:38?PM Arnie Perlstein via groups.io
<arnieperlstein@...> wrote:

It is indeed your life to live.

Arnie

On Oct 27, 2024, at 8:37?AM, Ellen Moody via groups.io <ellen.moody@...> wrote:

?I do what is in my character to do --

Ellen

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 8:02?PM Arnie Perlstein via groups.io
<arnieperlstein@...> wrote:

Thank you, Tamar, for giving Ellen that good advice to be proactive (and I would add, to ask her loved ones to be proactive on Ellen's behalf) - our health care system responds to the squeaky wheel, and it neglects those who
don't push for more attention and better care.

I would also suggest getting a referral to a physical therapist to assess your condition, Ellen, and perhaps figure out exercises you could be doing my regularly that would preserve and improve your physical capacities.

Hang in there, Ellen.

ARNIE

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 4:32?PM Tamar Lindsay via groups.io <dicconf=
[email protected]> wrote:

I am not a doctor nor anything medical.
That said, my opinion is that you need a second opinion. From a different set of doctors, in a different hospital.
Tell them someone else suggested it might be ischemic, and _ask_ what they think. Also ask what their Plan is for the continuing weakness and lack of use of the leg. Be sure to use the word "plan" - I hear that it has significant meaning in a medical context.

This all advice I have seen for getting past the blinkers and egos.

On Oct 27, 2024, at 8:37?AM, Ellen Moody via groups.io <ellen.moody@...> wrote:

?I do what is in my character to do --

Ellen

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 8:02?PM Arnie Perlstein via groups.io
<arnieperlstein@...> wrote:

Thank you, Tamar, for giving Ellen that good advice to be proactive (and I would add, to ask her loved ones to be proactive on Ellen's behalf) - our health care system responds to the squeaky wheel, and it neglects those who
don't push for more attention and better care.

I would also suggest getting a referral to a physical therapist to assess your condition, Ellen, and perhaps figure out exercises you could be doing my regularly that would preserve and improve your physical capacities.

Hang in there, Ellen.

ARNIE

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 4:32?PM Tamar Lindsay via groups.io <dicconf=
[email protected]> wrote:

I am not a doctor nor anything medical.
That said, my opinion is that you need a second opinion. From a different set of doctors, in a different hospital.
Tell them someone else suggested it might be ischemic, and _ask_ what they think. Also ask what their Plan is for the continuing weakness and lack of use of the leg. Be sure to use the word "plan" - I hear that it has significant meaning in a medical context.

This all advice I have seen for getting past the blinkers and egos.

On Oct 21, 2024, at 3:03?PM, Arnie Perlstein <arnieperlstein@...> wrote:

?
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 year, I hope???

Let's see.... (and I wonder if anyone else in this group was there too?)

First, it was lovely hanging out with friends like Jenny Allan, Constance Vidor, friends from PDX, and others who I chatted with briefly, like Sarah Emsley, Elaine Bander, etc -- an exceptionally friendly vibe overall, and very well organized - nothing went wrong.

I had assembled a wonderful banquet table, despite some folks having to cancel attending due to family tragedy -the table included some the above-named friends plus a couple of first timers who were lovely, who responded to my notice on the AGM Hoot Board.

There were playoff baseball games going on not far from the hotel on Friday and Saturday evenings, and an induction of a bunch of Boomer rockers into the RocknRoll Hall of Fame just next door, so there were some music celebrities staying at the Hilton alongside the Janeites. And there was a football game probably no more than 4 blocks from the Hotel at the stadium situated on the shore of Lake Erie on Sunday as well - Cleveland was very busy.

Then after the Sunday brunch, Constance Jenny and I met up with Diane and Roger Reynolds, who drove for hours just to make that happen - that was very special, as I've known Diane for 17 years, but we never met in person before. We all had a really great time.

Among the plenaries, my favorites by far were Peter Sabor (very thorough job re Burney-Ausgen connections) and Patricia Matthew (passionately arguing for opening up JASNA and Jane Austen studies to POC);

In the middle, Susan Allen Ford was very competent and professional, but not much new to me in her content.

On the other side of the coin, I didn't get much at all out of either Amanda Vickery or Tom Keymer, their talks did not deliver what the title of their talks promised, at least as far as I was concerned.

Lizzy Dunforth from Chawton House did a great job on Thursday in a special session presenting some exciting new stuff she has been studying for a while - a little pamphlet that JEAL created, apparently as a young teen, called Tales from Fairy-Land, but which Lizzy believes was perhaps a transcription of Tales told by Jane Austen to her nieces and nephews. I immediately found that persuasive, and I pointed out to her during the Q&A that when Miss Bates arrives at the Crown Inn and then, inter alia, says to Emma "This is just like fairy-land; such a transformation", that this is clearly a broad wink at the title of JEAL's booklet, plus the title of one of the 5 Tales. Lizzy had been speculating about possible echoes between the booklet and Austen's novels. I also quickly found some other stuff relating to Austen family fairy tales that further corroborates Lizzy's theory that these stories came in some form from JA herself. So very exciting.

Lizzy also promised that the transcription of Frank Ausgen's memoir (that I was one of a lot of volunteers for) should be online by year end. I bet it contains some surprises relating to the Austen family biography - i gathered it was released to the public finally whe Frankj's descendant, also named Frank Austen, died earlier this year at 99.

The Saturday night ball was hugely attended as usual, and there was also a nice ad hoc session for non-dancers with Lizzy, Amanda Vickery, Hillary Davidson, and Mary ___ (blanking on her name) from another of the Austen heritage sites (JA museum in Bath, I think) fielding Austen bio and life & times questions reo domestic stuff, fashion, Austen family history, etc.

I realized during that talk that JA did not go to Godmersham at all for 4 years between 1809 and 1813 - and the panel were saying that JA was basically the breadwinner for the Chawton Cottage unit - so I am guessing it was CEA who was always at Godmersham during those 4 years - why it changed after that is anybody's guess - maybe after publishing S&S and P&P, JA had hit a groove where she could continue writing even when visiting Godmersham for extended visits?

Among the breakout sessions I saw, the following were great (but obviously I only saw the ones I saw):

This was excellent, very thorough, very creative thinking, and perfectly delivered:
A5. Melissa Anderson, Southern Oregon University
Jane Austen and France: Everyday Life in Times of War and Revolution

Jane Austen’s family was deeply affected by the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and yet France is largely absent from her work. This talk examines the ways that France does show up in her writings and investigates how everyday life in Regency England would have been shaped by the wars. Using concepts drawn from the work of Michel de Certeau, it explores how Austen’s focus on the domestic sphere may have been an intentional choice to validate the lives of women, who were profoundly affected by the wars and yet whose voices were absent from political discourse.



This also was excellent, very thorough, informative and professionally delivered:

B1. Dr. Christine Kenyon Jones, Virtual Region
Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Literature, Politics, and Culture

Building on her book, Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations, Dr. Kenyon Jones considers these authors side-by-side. He was a famous celebrity, while she was a country parson’s daughter writing anonymously. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, while she was almost entirely home-schooled. He participated directly in national and international politics as a member of the House of Lords, whereas she lacked even the right to vote. This talk explores these major differences, but also considers how Austen’s and Byron’s lives, interests, work, and sense of humor often brought them within touching distance in Regency England.



Jocelyn Harris is always first rate, this is probably the 5th or 6th time I've seen her speak at an AGM:

D3. Jocelyn Harris, University of Otago
Jane Austen and Mme de Sta?l

Germaine de Stael was a celebrated philosopher, woman of letters, and political theorist, and more famous than Austen in her time. Why did Jane Austen refuse to meet her? If the invitation came from Lord Holland’s glittering salon, its politics might have put her off. Or did she simply resist being displayed? Scandal surrounded Sta?l, yet in 1808 Austen recommended her novel Corinne (1807) to a male acquaintance. In Emma, Jane Austen seems to agree with Sta?l about traditional restrictions on women, with Emma acting as a comic Corinne while Jane Fairfax barely escapes Corinne’s fate. With heroes like Mr Knightley in short supply, whose world is more realistic, Sta?l’s or Austen’s?



I also heard from a couple of people that this was really great by Collins, very detailed research:

D5. Collins Hemingway, Southern Oregon Region
Riots & Insurrections: Social and Political Unrest in Austen’s Time

This session explores the social, political, and religious upheavals of the Regency era and their causes, including constant agitation by citizens for political representation, protests over industrial automation that forced down wages, and frustrations over high-level corruption and other abuses by the ruling class. The wealthy drove the government to repress the voices of citizens, who pushed back both peacefully and violently. Efforts to overthrow the government were met with political trials and executions, and two famous poets narrowly avoided arrest for sedition. The talk shows how Austen refers to major issues in a way that avoids risks for herself.



And this was also very professional and entertaining, although there was nothing in her actual content that I didn't already know:

E1. Linda Zionkowski, Central and Western Ohio Region

Austen and the Comedy of Complaint

While Austen’s novels censure characters who are truly insensible to the pains, misfortunes, and feelings of others, those disturbed by a poorly-cooked meal or a drafty window fall into her group of whiners. This well-populated category of individuals is distinctive to Austen’s fiction, but not unique among critiques of sensibility in her time: James Beresford’s wildly popular treatise, The Miseries of Human Life (1806), portrays the art of whining in all its varieties. We will explore how Beresford’s focus on complainers offered a model for a wholly original source of comedy—one that Austen incorporated to perfection in her work.

On Oct 21, 2024, at 09:27, Nancy Mayer <regencyresearcher@...> wrote:

?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 published-- the
Bible in the language of the common people which at that time was Latin. I
think, Emma means that assessing Jane's looks wasn't something a person of
the gentry and up would do-- though , of course, they did.
Nancy

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 1:31?AM Arnie Perlstein via groups.io
<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 which really needed no
fuller bloom. It was a style of beauty, of which elegance was the reigning
character, and as such, she must, in honour, by all her principles, admire
it:—*elegance*, which, whether of person or of mind, she saw so little in
Highbury. *There, not to be vulgar, was distinction, and merit."*


As Emma contemplates Jane shortly after Jane's arrival in Highbury in Ch.
20, she grudgingly acknowledges the elegance of Jane's style of beauty, and
feels she must admire it, in comparison to what she sees in other females
in Highbury.


Why does Emma then think, "not to be vulgar", that this constituted Jane's
"distinction and merit". Is it Emma's sense that Jane is no great shakes to
stand out in Highbury, because there is no real competition? If so, then,
Emma is in effect, undercutting her admiration as soon as she thinks it,
because in fact, she is jealous of Jane's elegance but hates to admit it?
Or
is Emma, in her snobbery, characterizing her thoughts as "vulgar" for some
other reason I am missing?


ARNIE