#janites

[wildwoodpriory]

How many Janites are still around?

Would any Janites be willing to have a chat with me?

I'm curious about how that tradition is doing, as it influenced me heavily. Thank you!

[pog-mo-bhlog]

Internet Janites expectation: violent ship wars, LOTS of discourse, cliquey

Internet Janties reality: Everyone is just really sexually attracted to mathew mcfadyen’s hand and/or want to go back in time and eat austen out. 

[thelifeguardlibrarian]

"€˜What Jane Saw," an Online Exhibition for Austen Fans

A PEOPLE OBSESSED.

[riddlesandtherhymes]

Answering Machine Messages of Jane Austen Characters

Mr. Collins and Charlotte: "Thank you for calling my humble abode. I am inexpressibly sorry that neither I nor my dear Charlotte are at home, but if you would be so kind as to leave your message, I will assure you most sincerely that I shall return your call. This answering machine was paid for and chosen by my patroness, the Honorable Lady Catherine de Burgh, who also wrote this message and directed its execution. Such condescension!" Lady Catherine de Bourgh: "I am most seriously displeased to have missed your call. I will return it at my earliest convenience (yours is of no consequence) for I must have my share in the conversation." Mr. Bennet: "You wish to leave a message, and I have no objection to you doing so!" Captain Wentworth: "The ring of the phone pierces my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman to return calls. Absent I may have been, busy I have been, but never impolite. A message, a number will be enough to decide whether I return your call this evening or never..." Mary Musgrove: "I am very ill today and quite unable to answer the phone. If I had a visitor, I suppose that person could have spoken with you, but it does not suit the Miss Musgroves to visit the ill, and I dare not rise from my bed for fear that I may be seized in some dreadful way!" Lydia Wickham: "You may leave a message. You will have nothing better to do. I will return your call if I can. But you know married women have never much time for returning calls." Miss Bates: "It's so obliging of you to call, but then we have so many obliging friends that we are truly grateful, not that we wouldn't be grateful just for our health, but all these friends are so kind, and I know that you will forgive us for not being here when you called, except that my mother might be in but she can't answer the phone because she's deaf you know, not that she has anything else to disturb her, in fact she's remarkably healthy for her age, and she would answer but she probably hasn't heard the bell, so I'm sure you won't mind, and where was I? Oh yes, if you'd be so good as to leave your message just after the beep, that's the fourth long beep, not the first one, there are three short beeps and then a long one, that's the one to speak after, otherwise the machine won't record your message and we'd be ever so sad if we didn't receive it because I'm sure that it's very interesting, and I will call you just as soon as I get in...