The Other Austen

Guaranteed to Bring Out the Bitch In You

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just popping by to say that im currently watching Jane Austen Book Club for the first time - and thinking of you and fellow tumblr janeites! im only 9 minutes in and already hate so many men! huzzah!!

Asked by: masterpieceofass

yaaay! i have to admit, i’ve seen that movie well over 50 times. total comfort!

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Star Wars & Mansfield Park & Incest
“The relationship between Edmund and Fanny. They seemed like brother and sister.

But then in the end, it’s like The Empire Strikes Back, but it’s in reverse. You know? ‘Cause in Jedi, Luke Skywalker, he gets over Princess Leia when she turns out to be his sister.

Edmund gets over Miss Crawford and gets it on with Fanny, who’s his first cousin, so…

Did that bother anybody else?”

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extendedspringtime: “Each of us has a private Austen. Jocelyn’s Austen wrote wonderful novels about love and courtship, but never married. Bernadette’s Austen was a comic genius. Her characters, her dialogue remained genuinely funny, not like Shakespeare’s jokes, which amused you only because they were Shakespeare’s and you owed him that. Sylvia’s Austen was a daughter, a sister, an aunt. Sylvia’s Austen wrote her books in a busy sitting room, read them aloud to her family, yet remained an acute and nonpartisan observer of people. Sylvia’s Austen could love and be loved, but it didn’t cloud her vision, blunt her judgement. Allegra’s Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she’d worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section. Prudie’s was the Austen whose books changed every time you read them, so that one year they were all romances and the next you suddently noticed Austen’s cool, ironic prose. Prudie’s was the Austen who died, possibly of Hodgkin’s disease, when she was only forty-one years old. None of us knew who Grigg’s Austen was.” -The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler How would you describe your own private Austen? My Austen is a revolutionary and a true ironist who critiqued the hypocrisy of her society and loved the inconsistencies and strangeness of the people around her. You’re so punk, Jane.

extendedspringtime:

“Each of us has a private Austen.

Jocelyn’s Austen wrote wonderful novels about love and courtship, but never married.

Bernadette’s Austen was a comic genius. Her characters, her dialogue remained genuinely funny, not like Shakespeare’s jokes, which amused you only because they were Shakespeare’s and you owed him that.

Sylvia’s Austen was a daughter, a sister, an aunt. Sylvia’s Austen wrote her books in a busy sitting room, read them aloud to her family, yet remained an acute and nonpartisan observer of people. Sylvia’s Austen could love and be loved, but it didn’t cloud her vision, blunt her judgement.

Allegra’s Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she’d worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

Prudie’s was the Austen whose books changed every time you read them, so that one year they were all romances and the next you suddently noticed Austen’s cool, ironic prose. Prudie’s was the Austen who died, possibly of Hodgkin’s disease, when she was only forty-one years old.

None of us knew who Grigg’s Austen was.”

-The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler

How would you describe your own private Austen?
My Austen is a revolutionary and a true ironist who critiqued the hypocrisy of her society and loved the inconsistencies and strangeness of the people around her. You’re so punk, Jane.

(Source: frumpyspaceprincess)