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Wow. Doesn’t seem that long ago.
Great docudrama on PBS (yeah, I know) recently about her and her sisters.
I used to teach Persuasion, and went into depth on how the novella was infused with Christian doctrine, from the Christian view of marriage to the nature of Satan. Not something you will read about in any "womyn's studies" today, but it is consistent with Austen's Christian nature.
Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.
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I put off reading Austen for a long time, expecting her to be too prim (and too boring :) for my taste. I was suffering from one of the vices mentioned in the title Pride and Prejudice. I was prejudiced against what I considered to be the frills and conventions of upper-class or upper-middle-class British society.
I suppose I suffered from the other vice as well. As a reader of really "deep" books, I was too proud to occupy myself with anything that I thought might be superficial. When I finally did get around to reading her novels -- I've now read all of them -- I was surprised at how much I liked them. In my opinion, few writers can match her wit and insight into human nature.
Besides that wit and insight into human nature, she knows how to tell a love story. That's saying a lot. One of the best novelists ever, in my opinion.
'Your examination of Mr Darcy is over, I presume', said Miss Bingley 'and pray what is the result?'
'I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr Darcy has no defect. He owns it himself without disguise'.
'No'--said Darcy, 'I have made no such pretension'. ... 'There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best of education can overcome'.
'And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.'
'And yours', he replied with a smile, 'is willfully to misunderstand them'.
'Do let us have a little music', cried Miss Bingley, tired of a conversation in which she had no share.
I wish I could have written something that good, but then so does everyone else who has ever put pen to paper.
Mrs. jimfree, a PhD historian of the period, has spoken at local and national Jane Austen gatherings.