Dear Jane Austen: A Heroine's Guide to Life and LovePenguin, 26 de jun. de 2007 - 176 páginas Advice delivered with sense and sensibility just in time for the major motion picture Becoming Jane Women have looked to Jane Austen’s heroines as models of appropriate behavior for nearly two centuries. Who better to understand the heart of a heroine than Austen? In this delightful epistolary “what if,” Austen serves as a “Dear Abby” of sorts, using examples from her novels and her life to counsel modern-day heroines in trouble, she also shares with readers a compelling drama playing out in her own drawing room. Witty and wise—and perfectly capturing the tone of the author of Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice—Dear Jane Austen is as satisfying as sitting down to tea with the novelist herself. |
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... nature is as it was then , and no writer has captured it better . Austen's portrayal of character is as accurate , amusing , and enlightening now as when the world was first bewitched and delighted by Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse ...
... nature is as it was then , and no writer has captured it better . Austen's portrayal of character is as accurate , amusing , and enlightening now as when the world was first bewitched and delighted by Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse ...
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... nature is to be found . Catherine discovered that General Tilney had neither poisoned his wife nor imprisoned her deep in the recesses of Northanger Abbey , and unless it is your custom to form attach- ments with men who do such things ...
... nature is to be found . Catherine discovered that General Tilney had neither poisoned his wife nor imprisoned her deep in the recesses of Northanger Abbey , and unless it is your custom to form attach- ments with men who do such things ...
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... nature with the aim of entertaining . Quite simply , as poor Virginia Woolf said of my characters , " Peo- ple are like that .... " ( I shall never get over her drowning herself that way . We Austens have always faced adversity with a ...
... nature with the aim of entertaining . Quite simply , as poor Virginia Woolf said of my characters , " Peo- ple are like that .... " ( I shall never get over her drowning herself that way . We Austens have always faced adversity with a ...
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... nature to be ... Henry ! You startle me . With so many brothers I should be used to such mischievousness . You doubt me , Henry ? Ah , my brother says that I am not being honest , that it is plain to see I prefer the clever girl - and ...
... nature to be ... Henry ! You startle me . With so many brothers I should be used to such mischievousness . You doubt me , Henry ? Ah , my brother says that I am not being honest , that it is plain to see I prefer the clever girl - and ...
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... natural temperaments and if you are not witty and gregarious it does no good for me to declare that you must be so against your nature - indeed , against any possibility of your be- ing so ! If you are quiet like Fanny then you cannot ...
... natural temperaments and if you are not witty and gregarious it does no good for me to declare that you must be so against your nature - indeed , against any possibility of your be- ing so ! If you are quiet like Fanny then you cannot ...
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Chapter Three | 41 |
Chapter Four | 53 |
Chapter Five | 67 |
Chapter | 88 |
Chapter Eight | 114 |
Chapter Nine | 128 |
Chapter | 142 |
Bibliography 157 | |
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