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83Jane Austen Fashions
Jane Austen wrote most of her novels during the English Regency period, a time of upheaval and changing cultural mores - changes that could be seen the new fashions of the era, which harked back to the classical elegance of the ancient world...
57Reality and living in your own fantasy land
Today I watched two movies- Pride and Prejudice and Becoming Jane. The former put a smile on my face and left me with a warm feeling while the latter left me with a dampened spirit. I later read about Jane Austen's life on Wikipedia. It was kind of...
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72All About Romance: Best Romantic Books
Looking for a good love story to read? Check out one of these titles! Romance novels suggestions for every taste.
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72The Grand Mother of First-Wave Feminism: Feminism in Persuasion by Jane Austen
You might have an opinion on feminism, you might not. Learning more about the roots of feminism can empower your perspective either way. The roots of feminism are here explored in Jane Austen's Persuasion, written in England in 1816.
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7610 (Great, Unexpected) Movies about Women's Rights
Miss Austen Regrets I want to begin by presenting a bit of an homage to my great-grandmother, who must have put up with quite a lot in her lifetime. Born as one century turned, and leaving us just before the next century arrived, she and the...
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88Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Marriage
In Pride and Prejudice we are entertained by Austen’s unique ability to not only tell a story, but also to create an atmosphere where reality meets fiction in various aspects of humanity including the social and political sides of marriage....
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85Ten More Reasons Why Americans Love England
England, the land of afternoon tea, double-decker buses, and castles, is just easy to love. Fifteen reasons weren't enough, so here are the next ten.
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79Top 50 books I should read before I die
Maybe it's because it's a new year - well relatively speaking - or maybe it's because one day I decided that I needed to make a change for the better. Whatever the reason, I embarked on the task of reading the recommended "top 100 books you should...
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89When romantic gestures are misinterpreted in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
In Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, engagements and consequent marriages occur contrary to expectations. This is because all the clues and evidence held important by society and seen as indicative of engagement are ambiguous at best, if...
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83Birth Order and the Bennet Sisters
The Bennet girls of Jane Austen's famous novel Pride and Prejudice as seen through birth order theory.
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