Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
"I concluded, however unaccountable the assertion might appear at first sight, that good-nature was an essential quality in a satirist, and that all the sentiments which are beautiful in this way of writing, must proceed from that quality in the author. Good-nature produces a...
The novelist and her characters--Her sense of their reality--Accessories rarely described--Her ideas on dress--Her own millinery and gowns--Thin clothes and consumption--Domesti...
8. Part 8There are no "heroes" among these honest gentlemen of a hundred years ago. Wentworth has indeed won credit and fortune at sea. Bertram and Knightley do nothing to entitle them t...
3. Part 3"Let us not desert one another--we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporatio...
9. Part 9"Everything united in him; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world, and a warm heart. He had strong feelings of family attachment and family honour, without...
7. Part 7The most obvious "moral" of Jane Austen's novels is that if you are a heroine you need not trouble yourself about your future. You are certain to marry a worthy man with an inco...
11. Part 11Plain roast and boiled joints of mutton, pork, beef and veal, chickens, game in season, sweetbreads, meat pies, boiled vegetables, suet puddings, apple-tarts, jellies and custar...
2. Part 2She seems to have been more nearly understood among the clergy and squires, and other members of her family, than most humourists in their immediate circles. The common experien...
6. Part 6The only country tradesman who figures at all prominently is Sir William Lucas, who had "risen to the honour of Knighthood by an address to the King during his mayoralty. The di...
5. Part 5It has been said by Mr. Goldwin Smith that there is no philosophy beneath the surface of Jane Austen's novels "for profound scrutiny to bring {92} to light," her characters typi...
1. Part 1"I concluded, however unaccountable the assertion might appear at first sight, that good-nature was an essential quality in a satirist, and that all the sentiments which are bea...
4. Part 4"Mr. Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed them on her face with a calm unconcern, which was not in the least altered by her communication.
12. Part 12These are the chief country scenes of Jane's life. As to the towns, we know more or less of her associations with Bath, Southampton, and Winchester, as well as London. At Bath s...