![]() Consensus on Austen for a while now has generally been that she was a shrewd and uncompromising chronicler of human hypocrisy and frailty that she wrote with absolute clarity on the myriad foolishnesses of polite society but also that she understood them inside out and that her “charming” marriage-based plots are a forensic examination of the legalized system of prostitution that found it acceptable to sell unmarried women to the highest bidder-and in which the women in question frequently colluded because their other choices were homelessness or humiliation as “companion” dependents of wealthier families. ![]() The truth, of course, is less frilly and floral than the background for the photo above would suggest. Jane Austen has basically always gotten a rough shake, because literary misogyny exists and anyone who writes about bonnets is always going to find herself dismissed by one half of humanity and read feverishly-but only for the bonnets-by half of the other half. ![]() Since such Sir is my character, what do you mean by wishing me to marry your Daughter? My temper is even, my virtues innumerable, my self unparalleled. The Great Reread, #5: I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith.April 2023: superlatives for the rest of it. ![]()
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