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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... poor creatures back hundreds of years with stories full of improbable circumstances and unnatural characters . These novels are fine entertainment , not unlike the sort my Catherine adored , but it is not in them that human nature is to ...
... poor creatures back hundreds of years with stories full of improbable circumstances and unnatural characters . These novels are fine entertainment , not unlike the sort my Catherine adored , but it is not in them that human nature is to ...
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... 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 cooler gaze . ) But in revealing true rather than wildly ...
... 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 cooler gaze . ) But in revealing true rather than wildly ...
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... poor bewildered child is not true . When sweet Emma realizes how cruel she has been to Miss Bates , does she not seek to make amends to the lady from the purest of motives ? And is not Mr. Knightley deeply moved by her selfless gesture ...
... poor bewildered child is not true . When sweet Emma realizes how cruel she has been to Miss Bates , does she not seek to make amends to the lady from the purest of motives ? And is not Mr. Knightley deeply moved by her selfless gesture ...
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... poor wife faced her trials with tremendous forti- tude . A husband guillotined by a bloodthirsty mob , a sick child who died young , a beloved mother wasted by disease , a terrible , painful illness of her own . But let us not forget ...
... poor wife faced her trials with tremendous forti- tude . A husband guillotined by a bloodthirsty mob , a sick child who died young , a beloved mother wasted by disease , a terrible , painful illness of her own . But let us not forget ...
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... Poor Aunt Jane . I have not always spoken kindly of her but she is not a bad soul . Indeed , I hope others will remember me kindly , and forget my own little irritating ways . I sometimes fear it will not be long before they are put to ...
... Poor Aunt Jane . I have not always spoken kindly of her but she is not a bad soul . Indeed , I hope others will remember me kindly , and forget my own little irritating ways . I sometimes fear it will not be long before they are put to ...
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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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