Category: Fanon vs. Canon
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The Use of Violence in JAFF
Today, I’d like to talk about tolerance. Specifically, about tolerance in Jane Austen’s works. Now, I belong to a number of Facebook Austen groups, which can be both funny and fun. (This was where I first encountered this great New Year meme: “I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your…
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Marianne
#SenseAndSensibility #MrDarcy Hi friends, It’s been a toughish year, what with my husband’s – ultimately successful – operation for thymic mass cancer. (And no, you’ve prob. never heard of it. It accounts for fewer than 1% of cancers diagnosed in the UK, as a rule… but his surgeon has banished it.) Also on the bright…
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Yes, Everyone!
Champion blogger and author Melanie Schertz posted a question and answer asking reader opinions on a variety of JAFF hot topics. What can I say? I liked it, so I have answered it here.
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News Update
Hello and welcome to March! I have some bad news and some good news this month. I do not have an excerpt for you from An Interrupted Proposal, but I have just finished my last class for a few months and will be focusing on getting that book finished, edited, and ready for publication. Instead,…
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Pride & Perpetual Variations
Happy year of our Lord 2025 to you, my dear readers! (For reasons quite unknown to me, his devoted mother, my youngest son is fond of concluding whatever date with “the year of our Lord”. Teenagers… don’t ya’ love ‘em?) In but four short days, the anniversary of the likely most beloved of our most…
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1995 vs. 2005 – An Unacademic Analysis
The author explores the divided fanbases of the 1995 and 2005 adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, emphasizing their distinct approaches: the former as a faithful historical docu-drama and the latter as an emotional romantic comedy. The piece examines social media polarization, audience demographics, and celebrates diverse interpretations of Austen’s work.
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Mr. Darcy Punched Up: A Reaction to “Jane Bennet Married Down”
Earlier this year the wonderful writer Kirsten Odegaard published this post Jane Bennet Married DOWN: A Peek at Social Class in Pride and Prejudice and if you haven’t read it, you should check it out. She points out that as member of the landed gentry, Jane is decidedly upper class compared to Bingley who has…
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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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Fanny Price is the New Pink
I saw a comment about Fanny that floored me because it made so much sense. On a thread about polarizing characters, User appletreerose said, “with Austen’s male characters, she often opposes a charming louse with a good man who doesn’t easily catch the eye. I think Mansfield Park is the only time she does this…
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Why bother with my ‘Darcy’?
Why bother with my Darcy? Why not just re-read – for surely everyone here will certainly have read it! – Pride and Prejudice, itself? I was asked this question by a sceptical fellow tennis-mad friend. “After all,” she added, “You’ve admitted that the plot is mostly the same.” FIRST ANSWER: Because Austen never married. In…