Jane Austen

Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Jane Austen’

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Swept off her Feet Jane Austen

Marianne Dashwood sprains an ankle, but help is at hand.

Marianne Dashwood - young, impressionable and dangerously romantic - has gone for a walk with her younger sister Margaret, leaving her mother and older sister Elinor at home. On the way back she has slipped and sprained her ankle, but fortunately a young gentleman is there to offer her a helping hand.

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Jane Austen Clay Lane

The blushing clergyman’s daughter is recognised today as one of the great figures of English literature.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was not especially well-known in her own day, but has subsequently become recognised as one of the foremost novelists in English. Her dry wit, sparkling characters and radical themes have endeared her novels and herself to millions, not least Winston Churchill.

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A Proper Education Jane Austen

Harriet Smith’s school gave her a grounding in good sense that even Emma Woodhouse could not quite overthrow.

‘Emma’, like Jane Austen’s other novels, is essentially about the effects of bad education, that is, an upbringing from which good role-models have been absent, and in which theory is an accepted substitute for results. Here, she describes Harriet Smith’s school - the one she attended before ‘handsome, clever, and rich’ Emma Woodhouse tried to improve her.

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First Impressions, Second Thoughts Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennet began to wonder if being Mr Darcy’s wife might have had its compensations.

Elizabeth Bennet has recently turned down a proposal of marriage from Mr Darcy; now, having recently visited his snobbish aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she is on a guided tour round Mr Darcy’s own magnificent country house in Derbyshire, ‘Pemberley’.

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A Tempting Offer Jane Austen

True moral integrity comes from within.

Henry Crawford has decided it would be fun to break Fanny Price’s heart by making her fall in love with him. He thinks that Fanny, whose life is guided by strict principle, will jump at the chance to mould someone in her own image — thereby revealing how little he understands of principle, or of Fanny.

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Practice Makes Perfect Jane Austen

Making friends is, like playing music, not just a matter of natural talent.

Elizabeth Bennet and Colonel Fitzwilliam have been teasing the Colonel’s cousin, Mr Darcy, about his stiff and awkward behaviour in company. Mr Darcy claims he cannot help it, but Elizabeth is having none of that.

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