Quotes about Jane austen

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What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations. — Emily C.A. Snyder, Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received i — Emily C.A. Snyder, Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
Another strike of lightening – now accompanied by the deep-bellied rumble, and the horse reared, incidentally setting He — Emily C.A. Snyder, Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very mo — Sarah Caudwell, The Shortest Way to Hades
But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. I — Emily C.A. Snyder, Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
He shortly found himself arrived at politics — and from politics it was an easy step to silence.
Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Perhaps Austen was tired of — Emily Auerbach
(on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has b — the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there — Jane Austen
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. — Becky Watson
I cannot say much for this Monarch's Sense--Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know all abo — Jane Austen
My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to dis — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger — Jane Austen, Sense And Sensibility
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride a — Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she c — Rebecca West
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind — Shannon Hale, Midnight in Austenland
More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, Mary Shelley, George — Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs
Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, — Shannon L. Alder
Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park