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[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

This isn’t a variation, it’s an alternative explanation for Elizabeth’s behavior that is plausible and supported by a variety of passages in the novel text. You’re claiming as the only

Arnie, there appears to be a strong market for Austen variation novels. I have long suggested that you make your subtext theories into novels and publish them. Write the novel as you think it should

Again, I have NOT suggested that Jane would or should ask her father to intervene on her behalf. It is Elizabeth who has the unique knowledge that such an intervention by Mr. Bennet would have a

I agree with most that the last thing a respectable young woman would do wud be to ask a parent secretly to write. Parents don't act in secret that way. They are authority figures for real. Ellen

*NANCY*: “How mortifying for a daughter, especially one like Jane, to have her father tell Bingley that she was in love with him. The father could ask his intentions and suggest that he owed his

Arnie, I agree with you Mr Bennet is too indolent a father to bother to write a letter on Jane’s behalf. But a more significant reason he wouldn’t take the step (or rather, that Elizabeth would

Congratulations, Ellen! What terrific news. Dorothy

Many, many years ago, Ellen (in the days of Austen-L), I remember you comparing A Winter’s Tale with Persuasion, and the theme of ‘a second spring.’ As with many of your reflections, it’s

How mortifying for a daughter , especially one like Jame , to have her father tell Bingley that she was in love with him. The father could ask his intentions and suggest that he owed his daughter more

I forgot to add my most important point about propriety vs. love. Is there any scene in literature more thrilling than when Elizabeth stands up to Lady Catherine’s brazen attempt to intimidate

NANCY: "It just wasn't done to tell a man that one's daughter was in love with him." Just wasn't done sounds to me like empty propriety. I'm asking for a discussion of how to balance propriety with

And so now I celebrated with a blog telling how we three (me, Laura, Izzy) gained two new family members (Fiona Elinor) in the last couple of weeks:

It just wasn't done to tell a man that one's daughter was in love with him. What one could do, it see the man and tell him that after he had shown Jane such distinction, had raised hopes in the