Aulkens

Mentally in an Austen novel.

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[before-life]

Cambusnethan House, Scotland by reesetod

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JANE AUSTEN · (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)

─ Works & Publication Dates:

     ❦ Sense and Sensibility, 1811      ❦ Pride and Prejudice, 1813      ❦ Mansfield Park, 1814      ❦ Emma, 1815      ❦ Northanger Abbey, 1817/1818 (posthumously)      ❦ Persuasion, 1817/1818 (posthumously)      ❦ Lady Susan, 1871 (posthumously)      ❦ Sanditon, 1925 (unfinished, posthumously)

[ardentlyloveprideandprejudice-d]

Happy Birthday Jane Austen 🎂🌹🌹🌹

[aulksthevictorian]

Happy birthday, Miss Jane Austen. We still love you and always will. ♥️

[shisasan]

𝙳𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚞 𝙼𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚛, 𝚁𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚌𝚊 [𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟾]

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[litaratura]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[susiephone]

the narrator of Rebecca realizes some guests have arrived early and the one person she knows well (her husband) isn't here and her immediate first thought is to climb out the window and hide in the garden before anyone spots her so they just assume she isn't home so she doesn't have to deal with meeting new people without her husband there to be a social buffer

and they say classic literature isn't relatable

[simplybookdrunk]

“I’ve been reading Pride and Prejudice on and off all my life and it doesn’t wear out a bit.”

-C. S. Lewis in a letter to his goddaughter, Sarah, dated January 16, 1954 (excerpt from C. S. Lewis: His Letters to Children)

[doctorjennifermelfi]

persuasion is so wild...imagine your ex who you're still crazy about showing up after 8 years, practically moving into your house, calling you old and haggard (you're 27) but then admitting that he's also still obsessed with you and that nobody compares 2 u, especially not the pretty young thing who suffered brain trauma literally throwing herself at him...love that

[thelonelybrilliance]

One of my favorite things about Jane Austen is that she knew the real fear wasn’t running into some terrifying Frenchman or finding your lover’s wife in the attic…it was having to spend time with someone who is slighter cooler than you are, or playing piano in front of a critical audience, or thinking a picnic will be the perfect time for your jokes but then it isn’t