Category: Humor
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Bennet vs Bennet:
The Ultimate Pride and Prejudice Parenting Debate Those of us who love Jane Austen and the characters she created have mixed feelings about Mr. Bennet. Without a doubt, his sarcasm and laugh out loud one liners make him one of literature’s most memorable dads. But what kind of father is he really? Is he a…
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Is Mr. Collins Really That Bad?
We all love to laugh at Mr. Collins, but what about his good qualities? (Yes! He has them!)
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Unusual Regency Hobbies
Shoe making, graveyard picnics, and anthropomorphic taxidermy…just a day in the life of the Regency and Victorian upper class.
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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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Fillin’ the Pudding-House!: Regency Slang
Your personal dictionary of Regency slang
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EBBD Chapters IV and V
Well, I am about two thirds of the way through Elizabeth Bennet’s Bad Days. This will be the last post for this book, but only for a little while. First of all, I am making some changes after Chapter V that may involve shifting chapters. So I will stop here until I finish the entire…
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Was Jane Ever in Love? (Part 3: The Marriage Proposal)
A look at why Jane Austen might have refused her marriage proposal
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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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A Little Known Adaptation – Leslie Knope is Elizabeth Bennet
The themes of Jane Austen and her characters transcend time and culture. Austen literally wrote the book on on how to craft humorous, poignant stories about people and communities, and we see this pattern repeated over and over in contemporary media.
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Birds of a Feather
When reading Austen novels and or fan fiction, I noticed there are many mentions of birds: gentlemen shooting birds or out with trained falcons, dining later on the foul, and later encountering a woman with ostentatious feathers in her headdress. These are details that make me go, “Hmm.” I learned these details are not simple…