A passion for ancient edifices
And one for Henry Tilney.
Two eyes, eight parts of speech
A sentence from Northanger Abbey.
Better books?
Catherine Morland doubts that Henry Tilney could be a reader of novels.
“Tilneys and trapdoors”
Catherine Morland is riding with John Thorpe. But her mind is elsewhere.
Word of the day: tittuppy
From Jane Austen: "Break down! Oh! Lord! Did you ever see such a little tittuppy thing in your life? There is not a sound piece of iron about it.”
A chapter-saving device
From Northanger Abbey, one of many meta moments.
Against “Jane”
The novelist Howard Jacobson, on why readers should not refer to Jane Austen as “Jane.”
Austen, art, hypochondria, summer
“But it is never safe to sit out of doors, my dear.”
Jane Austen's punctuation
It was pretty wild
Strawberry stream of dialogue
Jane Austen, sounding like James Joyce
Dirty February
"The dirty month of February," Jane Austen called it.
A fifth Jane Austen character speaks
Miss Crawford, you play the harp. Do you know whether the Misses Owen are, any of them, musical?
A fourth Jane Austen character speaks
"It is as a dream, a pleasant dream!" he exclaimed.
A third Jane Austen character speaks
Fanny Price on shrubbery and memory
A second Jane Austen character speaks
"I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing."
A Jane Austen character speaks
She's Lady Bertram