Private to “The Oxford Student”
Dear Precocious Young Persons,
Leave Jane Austen out of your puerile parodies, please. We have a Cluebat of Janeite Righteousness and know how to use it. Just ask your compatriots at DePaul.
Cordially (for now),
The Editrix
April 24th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Thanks for the links to the archives!
I can’t scarce believe it! And the sad thing is that those people either get paid or get some benefit for their studies for this kind of BS. (At least I think that is how it is handled in the US-college magazines.)
Your comments were wonderful and your use of the cluebat of Janeite Righteousness completely justyfied!
Thanks for the good work!
A middle aged (?) Austen whore, with a real masters degree in psychology (hehe!)
P.S. Please excuse any strange phrasings of mine, English being my second language.
April 24th, 2006 at 8:38 am
Sylvia–at least the Oxford student publication is literate. I will give them that. It’s just so tiresome and gee-aren’t-we-clever. I remember being that way at their age and I dare say I was equally tiresome.
April 25th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
[...] We could handle people calling JA the founder of chicklit, and using her in parodies, but this is taking it a bit far. We’re talking about Jane Austen the author here, people, NOT the Made-up!Jane coming to a BECOMING JANE film near you. [...]