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At the parts about Mrs. Elton which are just muted savagery against the tasteless nouveau riche. Y'all complain about your boomer dads who can't express an emotion but then get wet for Mr. Darcy WHEN MR. KNIGHTLEY IS RIGHT HERE. Jane Austen understood what a generation that mainlined Tumblr media criticism doesn't: likeable characters aren't ones who aren't a little shitty, but ones who are shitty with vitality
— Aug 05, 2025 11:22PM
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Jeff
is on page 300 of 448
Austen describes an apple orchard in bloom during a nearly midsummer outing to Donwell Abbey. The critical apparatus to the Oxford World Classic's edition helpfully endnotes this as "a notorious error [...] Depending on the variety, apple trees blossom late April to late May."
Notorious! Never change, literary scholars.
— Aug 10, 2025 10:41AM
Notorious! Never change, literary scholars.
Jeff
is on page 111 of 448
My impression of Austen is that her writing is difficult, but whenever I actually crack open one of her novels I remember that, while it is intricate, dense, and witty, her prose flows easily. All the characters are vivid and the social and emotional relationships between them manifest so clearly in her words you could reach out and touch them.
— Jul 28, 2025 05:18PM
