...... SHARP ELVES SOCIETY ...... Jane Austen's Shadow Stories
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Sir Walter's Subtle Wit
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Sir Walter Elliot is generally considered one of the duller elves among the range of Austen characters, for good reason, it would seem....
Austen as Sermoniser...or Playwright
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In Austen-L this morning, Anielka Briggs wrote (in relevant part): "I contend Austen’s moralising is the clever, gentle and ent...
Monday, March 11, 2013
The Riveting Spectacle of Jane Austen & Joseph Addison in a Clinching CONUNDRUM
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This post is in followup to my several posts yesterday in which I claimed that Jane Austen, both in her youthful History of England , an...
Sunday, March 10, 2013
The Riveting Spectacle of Jane Austen & Joseph Addison in a Witty Clinch
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My eye was caught this morning by a curious resonance of expression between the following two passages written about 80 years apart: ...
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