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Jane Austen and Other Writers: India and Austen
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014. Much attention in the Austen world has been lavished on the West Indian slave plantations that financed wealthy families like the Bertrams in Mansfield Park. Less attention has been paid to Jane Austen's proximity, via close relatives, to the ruthless exploitation of native peoples in India. In The Austen Papers. Austen's uncle, Tysoe Hancock, mentions the Bengal famine of 1770 in a letter of 7 March 1770 to his wife Philadelphia, Jane Austen's aunt:. The Bengal famine killed ...
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Jane Austen and Other Writers: New York, Bury St. Edmunds, London, Prague
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Sunday, July 5, 2015. New York, Bury St. Edmunds, London, Prague. Me at one of the many outdoor spaces with views of Manhattan at the new Whitney. I already posted this photo to Facebook, but it was available, so I used it again. The Hudson is in the background. In England, we stayed at first with our friends Jane and Clyde, who moved last winter to Great Barton, a village outside of Bury St. Edmunds. We had coffee, scones and clotted cream at a little. We also saw the rebuilt St. Edmunds abbey church.
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Jane Austen and Other Writers: Cassandra: Dominatrix? part IV
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Thursday, August 21, 2014. From the earliest book-length memoir of Jane Austen comes strong testimony of her closeness and devotion to Cassandra:. We touched in the last blog on the 1797 death of Cassandra's fiance, Thomas Fowle. He was a dear friend of Cassandra's older brother, the clergyman James Austen. In a poem written many years later, James ruminates on the death of his friend and on the marriage he had hoped for between his friend and his sister:. And had I lived with confidence to join. The nex...
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Jane Austen and Other Writers: "Heaven is for Real:" But possibly not this boy's vision of it
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Sunday, July 19, 2015. Heaven is for Real:" But possibly not this boy's vision of it. Recently a Quaker committee of which I am a member hosted a showing of the movie "Heaven is for Real." I was interested in seeing the film because it was outside of my comfort zone. To my surprise, I found it fit Roland Barthes's notion of a "writerly text:" open-ended and ambiguous- far more so than I would have expected. It really was not quite what I expected. Little Colby sees heaven- maybe. As if heaven is real?
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Jane Austen and Other Writers: Jane Austen and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Monday, September 1, 2014. Jane Austen and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This may be the first blog post ever to mash together Jane Austen and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, but in honor of both my upcoming Bonhoeffer book and my favorite English author, I write about some of the similarities between the two. What could an early nineteenth century English woman novelist with no political involvement have in common with a twentieth century German theologian executed for his part in conspiring against Hitler? Both were talen...
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Jane Austen and Other Writers: May 2015
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Monday, May 25, 2015. Eating violets:Remembering a Poetry slam from a Month Past. For weeks, violets bloomed everywhere in Barnesville. A month ago I attended a poetry slam, and that might as well be an eon past in a wider culture structured to rush ceaselessly onward. We live in torrenting rapids, which threaten to smash to bits anything that can't keep pace. We hurtle into the latest event, temporal proximity lending to whatever is newest a heightened, if false, importance. I know how strong an ordinar...
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Jane Austen and Other Writers: The Little White Horse: Curb your Curiousity (or Not)
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Sunday, May 24, 2015. The Little White Horse: Curb your Curiousity (or Not). Elizabeth Goudge's children's book called The Little White Horse. I see the influence of The Little White Horse. All over the Harry Potter novels: like The Little White Horse. Is domestic fiction in being centered on the home and the village. This puts it squarely in line with the work of writers like Jane Austen, who as Walter Scott noted, moved away from the big bow-wow to books about everyday life. Goudge depicts havi...This ...
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Jane Austen and Other Writers: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014. My husband and I started reading. This summer during car trips and finished volume I yesterday. (Only six to go.) This novel was a favorite of Jane Austen's, a. Ccording to her brother Henry. The plot line thus far is similar to The Sylph by. I can understand where Jane Austen loved Grandison,. If Grandison is one source of many for Pride and Prejudice. I still find myself amazed that the only novel Darwin took with him on The Beagle was Sir Charles Grandison. This novel is p...
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Jane Austen and Other Writers: Felt: A thought-provoking feminist film
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Monday, July 13, 2015. Felt: A thought-provoking feminist film. Saturday night, to cap off a day in Pittsburgh, Roger, Nick and I saw the film. It centers on Amy, an artist, who experienced a sexual trauma before the action begins. The film suggests that she was raped after being given a date rape drug, but never specifies what exactly happened. Her friends try to help her, but nothing seems to work. Amy states at one point that only death or a coma will enable her to forget. Amy in her "man suit". Amy i...
