tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post3574211440775175136..comments2024-01-29T03:20:32.291-05:00Comments on ...... SHARP ELVES SOCIETY ...... Jane Austen's Shadow Stories: Jane Austen Society of PakistanArnie Perlsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-5898160085742145582016-07-14T04:38:08.131-04:002016-07-14T04:38:08.131-04:00[Sorry that this comment is not about this post; i...[Sorry that this comment is not about this post; it's just the most recent post at this moment.]<br /><br />Re-reading "Mansfield Park" (because I talked a student into doing Austen as a subject for his MA oral in December), I came across this comment by Edmund to Fanny about Mary Crawford, which I was sure you would have written about somewhere:<br /><br />"I do not censure her *opinions*; but there certainly *is* impropriety in making them public."<br /><br />A search of your blog for "impropriety", however, did not reveal anywhere that you may have written on the comment.<br /><br />Yet it seems to me to be right up your alley, as the "impropriety" of making opinions public is central to your whole point about the shadow stories, isn't it? In your terms, Austen would be saying to her readers that she keeps some of her opinions to herself because it would be "improper" to make them public.Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.com