Jane Austen discussion

Thrift Books posted this on FB today and I thought it was fun:
http://the-toast.net/2014/05/27/tell-...

jjajajaj ais really good

Your father is absolutely terrible with money. No one has ever told him this. -

A woman in an absurd hat is being an absolute bitch to you; there is nothing you can do about it.

Spot on :D

You have five hundred a year. From who? Five hundred what? No one knows. No one cares. You have it. It’s yours. Every year. All five hundred of it.


Hahahahahaha

"Your father is absolutely terrible with money. No one has ever told him this."

So true. So true.

"You say something arch yet generous about another woman both younger and richer than you."

Um perhaps about someone in Hollywood

To answer the question of who is the 21st century Janeite, I would have to say that today's janeite is as different from another as can be. My reading of Among the Janeites, I am introduced to people from all walks of life, very rich to abused housewives, professors, first time writers, hippies, pastor's wives, school psychologists to those who see shadow plots in all of Jane's books and characters. There is room for all at the table. The only uniter is Jane herself. Our own experience with Jane Austen and how she made us feel when we read Pride and Prejudice for the first time and Her way with turning a phrase, her wit, her diverse characters and what happens to them and even the times she wrote in that constrained her as a woman and a writer were things she struggled with. She wrote what she knew. She had to live in Bath which she didn't like mirrored Anne Eliot's hate of it. Jane had a brother who was adopted by a rich relative, thus Frank Churchill and Fanny Price. The drawing room was her kingdom where she wealed witty conversation and her family home and sister Cassandra were her retreat and connection to strength and life. What makes a Jane fan today are the universal themes she wrote about. She wrote about money, classes of people, romance, cads and rakes, good girls and girls with a secret agenda or just plain mean girls and of course family and faith and morality. Love transcends all in her novels. She writes with humor and real style. "A single man of good fortune must be in want of a wife". Who says things like that anymore? She puts us into her story and leads us through it and allows us to rejoice when true love conquers all. She draws us into the stories and characters and modern Janeites love to speak the language of Jane. It is true communion with other human beings who feel the same way we do about her and her novels. Some came to her by reading her books, others by watching her movies, but either way, we are all lovers and have drunk from the same fountain. I relish this wonderful woman who has long since died but lives on through her work. I wonder what she would say about all the fuss that has been made about her novels in the 21st century? I believe she would find it hard to accept the fame her work has brought. Yet I believe she would relish the modern world of blogs and facebook. These would be her canvas today. I would love to read something she wrote in her blog. Welcome the the 21st century dearest Jane.