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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

Persuasion (Ch. XXIII) by Jane Austen (Norton Critical Edition, P. ???)

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"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

Persuasion (Ch. XXIII) by Jane Austen (Norton Critical Edition, P. 165)

#persuasion

“Simply Rich” by Ashley Mora

#whittierthanausten #assignments

someone: [hears a noise in the middle of the night]

someone: [gets out of bed, turns on the lights]

me, standing in the middle of the room: look, the french revolution is so ridiculously biased in practically every fictional take on it. whether it be films, historical fiction, or anything in-between. robespierre is always seen as a bloodthirsty, god-hating dictator. which, naturally, is only a representation of thermidorian rumors and slander. don't even get me started on the rest of the revolutionaries, danton is always seen in a heroic light regardless of his scandals and inherently corrupt politics. not to mention camille, who usually takes a back seat to all of them due to his debatable involvement in the actual politics of it all, despite still being fundamental to the revolution. and saint-just and marat, if mentioned at all, are portrayed as antagonistic and demonized under radicalism. even the revolution as a whole is usually glossed over as a bloodbath, which of course only leads to the ideals and politics behind it being diminished as well. this is what we're feeding to the public on a historical event that changed politics on a rudimentary level and set standards for future leftism. honestly, we need to step it the fuck up.

someone: what the fuck

#18th century ( history )

ardentlyinlovedarcy

For Anne Elliot

#persuasion ( representations )#pride & prejudice ( representations )

this is something i’ve thought of for a while but have kept to myself:

the mothers in many of austen’s novels are absent, or in emma’s case, deposed, and i wonder if this could be some sort of commentary on austen’s own experience? in emma’s case, i feel because her mother has passed away, emma is left with an acute need to help others, and furthermore a need to be gratified. viewing emma with this in mind, her meddling takes on a more somber tone as one can interpret it as an attempt for the validation she could not receive from her mother (her father being out of the question in this case). one, then, almost pities emma and, perhaps, empathizes with her. it was under this pretense that i read the novel.

i wonder, what was austen’s own relationship with her mother like? was there something present in it that prompted her to feel as though absolutely necessary to warn of the effects of an absent mother?

#emma v.3 #updates #i needed to get this out there before it escaped me

He gave her a momentary glance, a glance of brightness, which seemed to say, 'That man is struck with you, and even I, at this moment, see something like Anne Elliot again.'

Persuasion (Ch. XII) by Jane Austen (Norton Critical Edition, P. ???)

I’d like to believe that this is the moment where things start looking up for Anne, but Wenworth doesn’t strike me the type to forgive easily. I can understand his damaged pride, despite that, at the time he had nothing to pride himself on, but I can’t understand his repeated and deliberate choice not to understand Anne’s unique situation.

#persuasion

[...] but Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her word had no weight, her convenience was always to give way--she was only Anne.

Persuasion (Ch. I) by Jane Austen (Norton Critical Edition, P. ???)

I absolutely loved this bit in chapter 1. Not only does Austen paint a picture of who Anne is, based on characteristics, but she tells us who she is in terms of her standing/family. It was this singular line that endeared me to Anne, without yet having read [heard] her speak.

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ladysmatter-blog

Sealing with Wafers

When we think of the romance of Regency letters, we think of sealing wax. Using it seems like a ritual that brings past times before our senses: the flickering candle, the smell of melting wax, the richly colored puddle impressed with a coat of arms or initials. But so many of the period resources I’ve been looking at refer to two alternative ways of sealing letters in one breath: “wax or wafer.” I had to learn more about the wafer. I was astonished to learn how ubiquitous sealing wafers once were, and how nearly forgotten they are now!

Read about wafers at my Wordpress blog

#18th century ( history )#19th century ( history )

decadentdeath

‘The court at Brighton a la Chinese!!’ by George Cruikshank, 1816.

“showing the corpulent George IV as a Chinese emperor, attended by courtiers. On the King’s right sits Lady Hertford, mistress to the King until 1819, and on his left his daughter, who is suggesting that she should be married off ‘to a China man instead of getting me a husband among our German cousins’.“

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#19th century ( history )#19th century ( art )#the british were apparently savage 3 centuries ago

theartofangirling

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries + text posts

#pride & prejudice ( representations )

The quote I chose can be found in Volume 3, Chapter 2. I cite the quote best here on my twitter page. I chose this one because it was, by far, my favorite quote. I believe the quote is very direct in what it proposes; Emma, having arrived and seeing she isn’t the only person there, feels her pride bruised and understands that she isn’t the only person important to Mr. Weston. Furthermore, there’s a little snark to the original line, isn’t there? I had hoped to capture that with my tweet, as I felt that was what made it stand out for me. To do so, I channeled my inner Emma, or maybe Cher?, and approached the tweet as if it was something I was writing in real time, after just having found out.

I loved reading all the tweets, especially those from the other students at different schools. It’s so striking that we can connect, by virtue of curriculum, to people so far away, who seem to be perceiving things in much the same way we are. It made me think that, maybe, our reactions aren’t so far off to how people might have reacted to Emma through the ages.

twitter

#whittierthanausten #assignments

pemberleydigital

#emma ( representations )#it's really only fitting that i reblog this #seeing as i just posted the corresponding quote #joanna's emma is so good i d ie

jessaminelovelace

web series meme: [2/3] favorite series - emma approved

i make your life better, and i never fail!

#emma ( representations )#v v emma approved

It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightly must marry no one but herself!

Emma (V.2, Ch. XI) by Jane Austen (Norton Critical Edition, P. 281)

#emma v.3

Emma perceived that her taste was not the only taste on which Mr. Weston depended, and felt, that to be the favorite and intimate of a man who had so many intimates and confidantes, was not the very first distinction in the scale of vanity.

Emma (V.3, Ch. II) by Jane Austen (Norton Critical Edition, P. 219)

Honestly, I chose this quote purely because it made me laugh. It’s nice that Austen’s novels always have fun little jabs like these, and I feel they really point towards her upbringing and her initial writings.

#emma v.3

darcydecapitatesshrubbery

When your youngest sister runs off with Mr. Wickham

#pride & prejudice v.3 #forever my favorite tbh

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