"You could not shock her more than she shockes me; / Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass. / It makes me most uncomfortable to see / An English spinster of the middle class / Describe the amorous effects of 'brass,' / Reveal so frankly and with such sobriety / The economic basis of society."
First Impressions: On Reading Jane Austen
Capsule: Pride and Prejudice
Sidebar: Of White Soup and Darcy's 10,000 Pounds. Clearing up questions about these and other very important matters to Netherfield Park, Longbourn, adn Pemberley
The Sentence - no other sentence in English literature has suffered the flattery of imitation as has the opening of Pride and Prejudice.
The Importance of a Good Carriage: traveling ca. 1812
Sidebar: More than a Constitutional: Heroines who Favor Walking
Landscape and Austen
A Mini-quiz of Austen
"Why I married her" by Mr Bennett
What's Aldous Huxley got to do with it? Pride and Prejudice on Film. (From the 1940 [mis]treatment of the story to one of the most-watched programs in British broadcasting history [the BBC 1995 version] to the controversial 2005 post-nuptial kiss to Mrs Darcy--with a stop in India (Bride and Prejudice) and Bridget Jones.
Sidebar: Leading Men from Laurence Olivier to Colin Firth and Matthew McFayden
Admirers: An intereview with Helen Fielding
Mrs Bennett Was Right: The Marriage Plot in Austen Novels
Pride and Prejudice: The Rejected Screenplays
The Pride and Prejudice Quiz
Jane Austen, the Early Years
Map: Where Jane Austen Lived
How to Celebrate Jane Austen's Birthday (Dec 16) in Style
Capsule: Jane Austen's Juvenilia
"If She Could See Them Now"--Austen's relationship with her publishers
A Reading Quiz--Link the books being read with the readers from Austen's novels
Capsule: Sense and Sensibility
Class and Austen
Sidebar: The Clergy in Austen's Fiction
Sense and Sensiblity on Film
An Austen Dictionary: Georgian, Linens, Regency
When and How to Read Jane Austen--A Poem
What Makes a Janeite?
Capsule: Mansfield Park
"Why I Loved Mansfield Park"; "Why I Dislike Mansfield Park"
Mansfield Park on Film
Reviewers: Who Said What about Jane Austen
The Characters We Love to Hate--Lady Catherine de Bourgh et al
Jane Austen's Letters
Sidebar: Weather Report
Capsule: Emma
Wry Is Not Just a Location in Yorkshire--Jane Austen's Style