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  • Jane Austen,Virginia Woolf, and Alice in Wonderland definitely served to fill the time and keep me company inside my head, but I was really lonely in my actual physical life.†   (source)
  • And these: Jane Austen.†   (source)
  • He gave her his best newscaster smile, at once managing to take in her Jane Austen T-shirt, old sneakers, and off-brand jeans while completely missing her face.†   (source)
  • She laughs and says maybe she'll see him in Spanish as she strolls to Jane Austen and the Victorians.†   (source)
  • "Everything of Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre, and all of Dickens and Shakespeare's plays except Coriolanus, because everyone kills everyone, but I know Midsummer Night's Dream almost by heart.†   (source)
  • Well, I'm in the library parsing a Jane Austen novel looking for dramatic irony, while many of my old friends are dead or in jail.†   (source)
  • It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.†   (source)
  • Inspired by Jane Austen's novel Emma, Heckerling deftly satirized the speech and lifestyle of rich teens in Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • In Jane Austen's Persuasion I had come across the lines, "she had been forced into prudence in her youth—she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning."†   (source)
  • I'm sure that's how Jane Austen would describe it, and I've been reading her books again.†   (source)
  • And I could go to Jane Austen's house!†   (source)
  • I have no idea whether Andrew is going to want to go to Jane Austen's house.†   (source)
  • On the shelves, medical reference and meditations, certainly, but also the books that now filled the cubbyhole in the bungalow attic—the eighteenth-century poetry that had almost persuaded him he should be a landscape gardener, his third-edition Jane Austen, his Eliot and Lawrence and Wilfred Owen, the complete set of Conrad, the priceless 1783 edition of Crabbe's The Village, his Housman, the autographed copy of Auden's The Dance of Death.†   (source)
  • I don't know if I quite qualify for Jane Austen's notion of "a good fortune"; but my grandmother provided for me very generously.†   (source)
  • At ten P.M. the lights were turned off abruptly, and I slipped Jane Austen onto my locker and stared at the ceiling, listening to Annette's respirator machine—she had suffered a massive heart attack shortly after arriving in Danbury and had to use it at night to breathe.†   (source)
  • Now, I'll be the first to admit that Beanie Baby (she goes absolutely nuts when I call her that, which I rarely do, except if I'm ticked at her about something) tends to dress, well, shall I say, outlandishly (I've been reading Jane Austen books lately and sometimes I wish we still talked like that)?†   (source)
  • I could have gone to Jane Austen's house by myself and just used Andy's house as a sort of home base.†   (source)
  • "And…oh, Jane Austen's house."†   (source)
  • "Jane Austen," I correct him.†   (source)
  • "Right, Jane Austen's house.†   (source)
  • I think Jane Austen can; and Trollope; perhaps Thackeray and Dickens and Tolstoy.†   (source)
  • Jane Austen wrote like that to the end of her days.†   (source)
  • ] Jane Austen hid her manuscripts or covered them with a piece of blotting-paper.†   (source)
  • Did not Charlotte Brontë fail entirely to understand Jane Austen?†   (source)
  • Only Jane Austen did it and Emily Brontë.†   (source)
  • [* MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN, by her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh.†   (source)
  • But perhaps it was the nature of Jane Austen not to want what she had not.†   (source)
  • To Jane Austen there was something discreditable in writing PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.†   (source)
  • I have the fancy for rather spicy things, you know, not for the shade of the cedar tree, the cucumber sandwich, the silver cream-jug, the English girl dressed in whatever English girls do wear for tennis—not that, not Jane Austen, not M-m-miss M-m-mitford.†   (source)
  • She could see how it was from his manner—he wanted to assert himself, and so it would always be with him till he got his Professorship or married his wife, and so need not be always saying, "I—I—I." For that was what his criticism of poor Sir Walter, or perhaps it was Jane Austen, amounted to.†   (source)
  • She had broken up Jane Austen's sentence, and thus given me no chance of pluming myself upon my impeccable taste, my fastidious ear.†   (source)
  • But why, I asked her as if she were present, are Jane Austen's sentences not of the right shape for you?†   (source)
  • And, I wondered, would PRIDE AND PREJUDICE have been a better novel if Jane Austen had not thought it necessary to hide her manuscript from visitors?†   (source)
  • For while Jane Austen breaks from melody to melody as Mozart from song to song, to read this writing was like being out at sea in an open boat.†   (source)
  • If Jane Austen suffered in any way from her circumstances it was in the narrowness of life that was imposed upon her.†   (source)
  • Yet Jane Austen was glad that a hinge creaked, so that she might hide her manuscript before anyone came in.†   (source)
  • Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it.†   (source)
  • It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex.†   (source)
  • For it was useless to say, 'Yes, yes, this is very nice; but Jane Austen wrote much better than you do', when I had to admit that there was no point of likeness between them.†   (source)
  • Jane Austen should have laid a wreath upon the grave of Fanny Burney, and George Eliot done homage to the robust shade of Eliza Carter—the valiant old woman who tied a bell to her bedstead in order that she might wake early and learn Greek.†   (source)
  • They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontës and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow; some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Eliot; a reference to Mrs Gaskell and one would have done.†   (source)
  • ] [*2 'If, like the reporter, you believe that female novelists should only aspire to excellence by courageously acknowledging the limitations of their sex (Jane Austen [has] demonstrated how gracefully this gesture can be accomplished ….†   (source)
  • Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontës and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue.†   (source)
  • When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Brontë who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to.†   (source)
  • One might say, I continued, laying the book down beside PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, that the woman who wrote those pages had more genius in her than Jane Austen; but if one reads them over and marks that jerk in them, that indignation, one sees that she will never get her genius expressed whole and entire.†   (source)
  • That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • And, after all, we have lives enough of Jane Austen; it scarcely seems necessary to consider again the influence of the tragedies of Joanna Baillie upon the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe; as for myself, I should not mind if the homes and haunts of Mary Russell Mitford were closed to the public for a century at least.†   (source)
  • She had nothing like the love of Nature, the fiery imagination, the wild poetry, the brilliant wit, the brooding wisdom of her great predecessors, Lady Winchilsea, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen and George Eliot; she could not write with the melody and the dignity of Dorothy Osborne—indeed she was no more than a clever girl whose books will no doubt be pulped by the publishers in ten years' time.†   (source)
  • She listened respectably to statistics on Dickens, Thackeray, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Scott, Hardy, Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Essays.†   (source)
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen (1818) Chapter 1 Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as…†   (source)
  • MANSFIELD PARK (1814) by Jane Austen CHAPTER I About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.†   (source)
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.†   (source)
  • EMMA BY JANE AUSTEN VOLUME I CHAPTER I Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.†   (source)
  • NORTHANGER ABBEY by Jane Austen (1803) ADVERTISEMENT BY THE AUTHORESS, TO NORTHANGER ABBEY THIS little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication.†   (source)
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