Last week, this Jeopardy answer was given as part of the Title Characters category:
Jane Austen described this 20-year-old as “handsome, clever, and rich.”
Alas, one of the contestants answered, “Who is Mr. Rochester?” I’m sure the gentle readers of AustenBlog can do much, much better.
One might think, from the title of this book as well as the cartoony-cute cover design, that Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating is the latest chick-lit novel on the order of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, or perhaps a tittering sendup of Jane’s work such as Pride and Promiscuity, but Lauren Henderson is sincerely earnest in her desire to help modern girls apply the old-fashioned common-sense lessons of Jane Austen’s heroines to their modern dating lives. (more…)
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