Category: Emma
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Emma & LOL Fun
A few texting stories from the cast of Emma. Watch out, world. Miss Bates has a cell phone.
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How Jane Austen Uses Names
And which names are never given Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and Colonel Fitzwilliam are never named in the entirety of Pride & Prejudice. Fan fiction and adaptations have given them first names, but Austen never revealed names if a person would be addressed by a title instead. Mrs. Bennet is addressed as “mamma,” “sister,” and…
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The Centrality of Self-Knowledge in Austen, a Guest Post from Pamela Aidan
The importance of self-knowledge or self-discovery in Jane Austen’s novels is not likely to be contested as it is a feature, perhaps THE feature that appears in all of them to one degree or another. My personal favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, has as its hinge the incident of Darcy’s ill-fated proposal at Rosings which…
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Austenesque Fathers
My father in law passed away exactly a month ago today, following years of declining health and increasing discomfort and pain. He was a good man who loved his family, someone I considered a “quiet hero.” He did his best to support his family day after day, without theatrics or demands for recognition, and he…
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Plump is Beautiful: Austen’s Take on the Many Sides of Beauty
Modern love stories are full of characters who are shapely and thin, but in Austen’s world, characters do not have to be skinny–or even pretty–to be beautiful.
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If 4 Iconic Jane Austen Couples did the Super Bowl
Whether you are a sports person or not, you might have heard that the Super Bowl just happened on Sunday here in the U.S., in Las Vegas, Nevada. And whether you are a Swiftie or not, you might also have heard that Taylor Swift was there to support and congratulate her boyfriend Travis Kelce on…
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Imagined First Kiss for Each Austen Couple
In Honour of Valentine’s Day The Kiss, Self-portrait of French painter Carolus-Duran with his wife as newlyweds. Fitzwilliam Darcy & Elizabeth Bennet: after they were married, when no one else was around. Mr. Darcy does not do Public Displays of Affection. Elizabeth tried to make a few hints earlier but they were all rebuffed. (Did…
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2nd Annual Always Loving Austen Giveaway
Welcome to the Always Loving Austen Giveaway. (1) The giveaway runs through midnight EST Sunday, February 11, 2024, to midnight EST Sunday, March 24, 2024. (2) Although we encourage you to comment below, to enter, you MUST use this Rafflecopter link. We hope you will SHARE with others, not only this giveaway, but also the…
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Austen’s Words Soothe Soldiers, Home Folks
Nearly eighty years after the end of World War II, it is fitting to remember that Britain’s bulldog leader once benefitted from the soothing words of Jane Austen during the world’s largest military conflagration. Winston Churchill lay abed with the flu during the middle of the war. His doctors told him: “Don’t work, don’t worry.”…
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Indie Book Awards – to enter, or not to?
Sometimes I’m just going… ‘Whaaaaat? Me on Always Austen again? Regina’s messed up. It can’t be me, already!’ (Note to self: Regina never messes up. She is enviably organized!!! And so… it is me. Tough luck, people!) Anyway, we came back, yesterday, to a freezing London, from a freezing northern Virginia, where we visited my…