Starring Gordon Brown as Mr. Darcy
Alert Janeite Helen sent us an article from the Financial Times that definitely goes in the “Approaching Hilariously Inappropriate Jane Austen Comparisons” category.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if British politics were a Jane Austen novel, Gordon Brown would be the Darcy-esque hero while David Cameron would be the silver-tongued seducer and rogue.
Sigh.
Who can fail to think of Mr Brown when re-reading Mrs Bennet’s sage advice to her wavering daughter? “Forget your feelings, where else are you going to find a spendthrift meddler and political intriguer who surrounds himself with yes-men and disappears from view the moment there’s blame to be laid.”
*pages through Oxford Illustrated Edition looking for passage*
Anybody else had any luck?
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
A comparison with Gordon Brown has forever spoilt Mr. Darcy for me now… *sigh* Henry Tilney it is then!
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Rosalind,
You say that as if it were a bad thing!
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I’ve got a Mrs. Bennet quote for the Financial Times: “Remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home.”
June 4th, 2008 at 12:05 am
*beckons*
Come over to Team Tilney…we have snark! And Great Coat Porn!
June 4th, 2008 at 9:57 am
It’s not a bad thing at all. I’m being tongue in cheek! Something which hardly comes across on the internet. lol