tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post6742706569667835197..comments2024-01-29T03:20:32.291-05:00Comments on ...... SHARP ELVES SOCIETY ...... Jane Austen's Shadow Stories: JD Salinger and Jane AustenArnie Perlsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-48284475823628581382013-07-18T17:14:58.778-04:002013-07-18T17:14:58.778-04:00Wow! For Salinger to ascribe love of Jane Austen t...Wow! For Salinger to ascribe love of Jane Austen to Seymour, his greatest sage, shows how much Salinger really did love Jane Austen--but I am surprised he mentioned P&P, and not Emma--I'd have guessed he'd have been that unusual Janeite who valued Emma more.Arnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-37320403929117659282013-07-18T16:43:23.609-04:002013-07-18T16:43:23.609-04:00Thanks for this article that brings together my tw...Thanks for this article that brings together my two favorite writers! Salinger also expresses his appreciation for Austen in his last published story, "Hapworth 16, 1924," a letter from young Seymour Glass to his parents (full story can be found here: http://ae-lib.org.ua/salinger/Texts/Hapworth161924-en.htm)<br /><br />Just look at the following passage: among other books, Seymour requests that his parents send him "Jane Austen, in entirety or in any shape or form, discounting 'Pride and Prejudice,' which is already in possession. I will not disturb this incomparable girl’s genius with dubious remarks; I have already hurt Miss Overman’s feelings inexcusably by refusing to discuss this girl, but I lack even the slight decency to regret it very much. Quite in a pinch, I would be willing to meet somebody at Rosings, but I cannot enter into a discussion of a womanly genius this humorous, magnificent, and personal to me; I have made some feeble, human attempts, but nothing at all meritorious."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com