How lovely and refreshing to read a mature and intelligent take on Jane Austen’s work from a columnist at Washington State University’s Daily Evergreen. And she’s not even a Janeite!
After the final credits rolled past and the theater was once again lit well enough to find the exit, my mom, my sister and I were gushing about how we loved the movie and laughing at certain quotes and claiming our favorite characters as we typically do after a chick movie. Once we got home, I went to my room to get ready for bed and despite my best efforts to fall asleep, I started thinking about how much the themes of Jane Austen’s six novels are still so relevant today, 200 years later.
Should love be unbound and wild, or constrained and orderly?
Can marriages really stay happy and fulfilling for “as long as we both shall live”?
These timeless questions and several other themes including friendship, romance and social manners are still the issues perplexing us today.
Nicely said. We hope Ms. Miley goes on to read some of Jane Austen’s novels now, or at least learns to appreciate them! We know that there are smart and mature teenagers and college students out there, and some of them even read this blog. 
Always good to have proof of it.
