The Other Austen

Guaranteed to Bring Out the Bitch In You

  • 22nd February
    2013
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  • 14th February
    2013
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  • 8th January
    2013
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.”
“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Persuasion, Jane Austen (via literarylust)
  • 2nd October
    2012
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  • 28th September
    2012
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  • 20th July
    2012
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mandoomonk:

Their dress had every advantage, their faces were rather pretty, their spirits extremely good, their manner unembarrassed and pleasant; they were of consequence at home, and favourites abroad. Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some comfortable feeling of superiority from wishing for the possibility of exchange, she would not have given up her own more elegant and cultivated mind for all their enjoyments; and envied them nothing but that seemingly perfect good understanding and agreement together, that good-humoured mutual affection, of which she had known so little herself with either of her sisters.

 jane austen persuasion )

  • 15th July
    2012
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  • 13th July
    2012
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  • 2nd July
    2012
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notkissingyougoodbye:

AND walking the stone steps of The Cobb at Lyme Regis!  You know… From Jane Austen’s Persuasion?! Yeah course you do!!

When I asked Brits for tips about visiting Lyme, they would be like, “Lyme?…do you mean Lyme Regis?” And I said NO I MEAN LYME BECAUSE JANE AUSTEN AND I DON’T CARE IF IT WAS RENAMED IN THE PAST 200 YEARS

me after practically crawling up the granny’s teeth stairs
but at least it didn’t end like this

notkissingyougoodbye:

AND walking the stone steps of The Cobb at Lyme Regis!
You know… From Jane Austen’s Persuasion?! Yeah course you do!!

When I asked Brits for tips about visiting Lyme, they would be like, “Lyme?…do you mean Lyme Regis?” And I said NO I MEAN LYME BECAUSE JANE AUSTEN AND I DON’T CARE IF IT WAS RENAMED IN THE PAST 200 YEARS

me after practically crawling up the granny’s teeth stairs

but at least it didn’t end like this

  • 25th June
    2012
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  • 9th June
    2012
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  • 3rd June
    2012
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  • 29th April
    2012
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  • 26th January
    2012
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