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14 March 2008

We kind of wish Jane really would do this

Filed under: Janeites Run Amok, Online — Mags @ 12:28 am

Jane Austen: People of Earth!

People of Earth: Eeeeeeek!

J.A: People of Earth! It has come to Our attention that you have read Our Magnum Opus, Pride and Prejudice!

President of Earth: [shoved forward by everyone else] A-and we loved it, Ma’am! Especially Elizabeth! S-she was so witty, and…

J.A: Silence! You have misunderstood Our intention! You seem to think Elizabeth got her man because she was witty, clever, and good-humored! You could not be more mistaken!

Go read the rest. It’s quite hilarious.

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REVIEW: Emma and Knightley by Rachel Billington

Filed under: Paraliterature, Staff Reviews — Guest Poster @ 12:26 am

Emma and Knightley Review by Allison T.

With this promising opening sentence—“Emma Knightley, handsome, clever and rich, with a husband whose affection for her was only equaled by her affection for him, had passed upward of a year of marriage in what may be described as perfect happiness….”—Rachel BIllington explores the challenges of early married life in Emma & Knightley; Perfect Happiness in Highbury. Emma has little to vex her, at least at first. But there are clouds on the horizon.

Poor Jane Churchill has died in childbed and the distraught and half-mad Frank is roaming the countryside talking wildly of suicide. Both Mrs. Weston, Mrs. Robert Martin (Harriet), and Mrs. John Knightley (Isabella) are all expecting—why isn’t Emma pregnant, too? Then comes bad news about John Knightley’s financial affairs. Emma travels to London to support Isabella in the last weeks of her pregnancy and meets there the exotic and somewhat peculiar Philomena Tidmarsh and her young step-son, the Rev. Tidmarsh. What is Philomena’s relationship with the Foundling Hospital? She plays the harp as divinely as Mary Crawford, but is she really a lady? (more…)

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