A is for Austen

'I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.' Sense and Sensibility.

[austenchanted]

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

getting ready for the Netherfield ball

[pemberley-state-of-mind]

“It´s a great way to define the society and a great way to mark the difference between the assembly room dance at the beginning and the Netherfield ball in the middle. I made them as contrasting as possible, and that first dance was kind of bawdy and dirty and as much of a proper old knee´s up as possible. You could see the dust and you can smell the sweat and it’s a working farm they’re living on, so he was keen to, to feel that.”

(Joe Wright, Director)

[lady-arryn]

hair and costumes details from Netherfield Park ball in Pride & Prejudice  (requested by anonymous)

[aisforausten]

Happy Netherfield Ball Day Everyone!

He observed to her, at a moment when the others were talking together, and in a tone which had something of real regret, that it ‘was a very long time since he had had the pleasure of seeing her’ and, before she could reply, he added, ‘It is above eight months. We have not met since the 26th of November, when we were all dancing together at Netherfield.’    

(Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice)

[bookhoarding]

Happy birthday to Jane Austen!

Toast deeply in her name tonight, and if you’re hungover just know she could relate.

[image reads: I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne.]

[flowerytale]

Jane Austen, from “Pride and Prejudice”

[appleinducedsleep]

Today (16-dec-22) is Jane Austen’s 247th birthday, I wouldn’t be the person I am today without her novels

[aisforausten]

“You know how interesting the purchase of a spongecake is to me.”

— Jane Austen in a letter to Cassandra Austen (15th-17th June 1808)

[read-it-in-a-book]

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Happy Birthday, Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)!

[aisforausten]

“Jane never wrote of being depressed in the way Dr Johnson was when he spoke of his ‘black dog’, or Boswell with his low spirits and terror of death. Hers did not take that form. She would not allow herself to indulge anything she might label self-pity; and she never became clinically ill, as Cowper, who brooded on his own sinfulness and feared being cast out of God’s mercy, did. Cowper died in 1800; Jane loved his poetry, and gave some of his lines to Fanny Price to quote in Mansfield Park. Her account of Fanny’s permanent low spirits after a childhood trauma, and her very different account (in Sense and Sensibility) of Marianne unable to combat her misery and willing herself into serious illness, show how well she understood depression. And however she dealt with and controlled her own, it struck at the core of being: it interfered directly with her power to write. The great burst of writing of the late nineties simply came to a halt.”

— From Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin.

[lady-arryn]

hair and costumes details from Netherfield Park ball in Pride & Prejudice  (requested by anonymous)

[mostarrdently]

Pride and Prejudice Meme: Favorite Outfit(s) The Netherfield Park Ball

[pemberley-state-of-mind]

“It´s a great way to define the society and a great way to mark the difference between the assembly room dance at the beginning and the Netherfield ball in the middle. I made them as contrasting as possible, and that first dance was kind of bawdy and dirty and as much of a proper old knee´s up as possible. You could see the dust and you can smell the sweat and it’s a working farm they’re living on, so he was keen to, to feel that.”

(Joe Wright, Director)

[pemberley-state-of-mind]

[aisforausten]

With the exception of “Northanger Abbey”, Jane Austen pointedly makes certain pivotal events  in her novels occur on a Tuesday. These events often includes  a snubbing or humiliation of the heroine or hero (or anti-hero or co-heroine)as a significant part of the event  and they lead to denouements or climaxes e.g. the Netherfield Ball at wich Bennet family so shames Elizabeth, occurs on Tuesday, November 26. The Gardiners and Lizzie also tour Pemberley on a Tuesday.

[austenchanted]

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

getting ready for the Netherfield ball

[aisforausten]

Happy Netherfield Ball Day Everyone!

He observed to her, at a moment when the others were talking together, and in a tone which had something of real regret, that it ‘was a very long time since he had had the pleasure of seeing her’ and, before she could reply, he added, ‘It is above eight months. We have not met since the 26th of November, when we were all dancing together at Netherfield.’    

(Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice)

[agrippinaes]

emma woodhouse's costumes in EMMA (2020) part three