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Monday, February 24, 2014

More Downton/Whodunit Abbey Ruminations on the Mysterious Thomas Barrow

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Having now watched Episode 8, the final one of Season 4 of Downton Abbey , I now wish to add to my two earlier posts (read them con...

Kitty A Fair But Bowdlerized Maid

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In Janeites, Rita Lamb wrote the following in connection with my ongoing discussion with Christy Somer about my claims that the Kitty R...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Letter 140: Jane Austen’s Old Friends & Daily Visitors, Mrs. Austen’s Headaches, & Shylock’s Blade

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As our group read of Jane Austen's surviving letters reaches its final 10%, Diana Birchall wrote:  “…to announce the death of Mrs...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Tweaking of my earlier answer to the Big Question: Who Kill Green in Episode 8 of Downton Abbey?

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I just watched Episode 8 of Season 4 of Downton Abbey for the third time, this time being acutely focused on anything, however fleeting, ...
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Arnie Perlstein
Portland, Oregon, United States
I'm a 72 year old independent scholar (still) working on a book project about the SHADOW STORIES of Jane Austen's novels (and Shakespeare's plays). I first read Austen in 1995, an American male real estate lawyer, i.e., a Janeite outsider. I therefore never "learned" that there was no secret subtext in her novels. All I did was to closely read and reread her novels, while participating in stimulating online group readings. Then, in 2002, I whimsically wondered whether Willoughby stalked Marianne Dashwood and staged their “accidental” meeting. I retraced his steps, followed the textual “bread crumbs”, and verified my hunch. I've since made numerous similar discoveries about offstage scheming by various characters. In hindsight, it was my luck not only to be a lawyer, but also a lifelong solver of NY Times and other difficult American crossword puzzles. These both trained me to spot complex patterns based on fragmentary data, to interpret cryptic clues of all kinds, and, above all, not to give up until I’ve completed the puzzle--and literary sleuthing Jane Austen's novels (and Shakespeare's plays) is, bar none, the best puzzle solving in the world!
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