The Jane Austen Handbook

Author : Margaret Sullivan
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781594745058

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The Jane Austen Handbook by Margaret Sullivan Pdf

Bridgerton fans and Jane Austen neophytes will be bewitched, body and soul, by this fun, informative guide to the nuances of life in Regency England Every young lady dreams of a life spent exchanging witty asides with a dashing Mr. Darcy, but how should you let him know your intentions? Seek counsel from this charming guide to Jane Austen’s world. Its step-by-step instructions reveal the practicalities of life in Regency England, including sensible advice on: • How to behave at your first ball • How to ride sidesaddle • How to decline an unwanted marriage proposal • How to improve your estate • How to throw a dinner party —and much more. Offering readers a glimpse into day-to-day life in Jane Austen’s time, The Jane Austen Handbook is the perfect companion for fans of her novels and their film adaptations, complete with detailed information on love among the social classes, currency, dress, and nuances of graceful living.

Author : Margaret Sullivan
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781594745089

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The Jane Austen Handbook by Margaret Sullivan Pdf

Bridgerton fans and Jane Austen neophytes will be bewitched, body and soul, by this fun, informative guide to the nuances of life in Regency England Every young lady dreams of a life spent exchanging witty asides with a dashing Mr. Darcy, but how should you let him know your intentions? Seek counsel from this charming guide to Jane Austen’s world. Its step-by-step instructions reveal the practicalities of life in Regency England, including sensible advice on: • How to behave at your first ball • How to ride sidesaddle • How to decline an unwanted marriage proposal • How to improve your estate • How to throw a dinner party —and much more. Offering readers a glimpse into day-to-day life in Jane Austen’s time, The Jane Austen Handbook is the perfect companion for fans of her novels and their film adaptations, complete with detailed information on love among the social classes, currency, dress, and nuances of graceful living.

Author : J. David Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1113574541

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The Jane Austen handbook, with a dictionary of Jane Austen's life and works by J. David Grey Pdf

Author : J. David Grey
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : 0485113015

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The Jane Austen Handbook by J. David Grey Pdf

Author : Haley Stewart
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646801404

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Jane Austen's Genius Guide to Life by Haley Stewart Pdf

Popular Catholic podcaster Haley Stewart insists that there’s no better life coach than nineteenth-century British novelist Jane Austen. In this uniquely Catholic take, Stewart reveals Austen’s thoughtful, deeply personal exploration of human relationships—including with God—through her six novels. Stewart’s insights take you on a journey that is both literary and spiritual, revealing how Austen’s characters and themes can lead to you to discover and become the person God has called you to be. Stewart draws fascinating connections between Austen’s novels and real life and introduces Austen as a capable life coach by how she guides her readers to understand virtue and vice through friendship, love, community, and God’s grace. Austen’s characters reveal how virtuous habits transform us and help us become who we were meant to be. Each chapter focuses on characters and virtues from a single novel: Do you find yourself swayed by superficial charm and yearn to see others more clearly? Let Elizabeth Bennet teach you how to recognize substance in others and address the pride in your own heart through the cultivation of humility (Pride and Prejudice). Are you stuck in selfishness that wounds others (and yourself)? Let Emma Woodhouse and George Knightley help you develop the compassion to see the world more clearly with the eyes of Christ (Emma). Do you get swept away into poor choices due to a lack of self-control? Let the Dashwood sisters show you the virtue of temperance and guide you to embrace your God-given personality and temperament (Sense and Sensibility. Do you have treasured ideals but struggle to live them out? Follow along with Edmund Bertram’s journey toward constancy through the example of Fanny Price (Mansfield Park). Have the disappointments of life grown resentment or bitterness in your heart? Be inspired by Anne Elliot’s vulnerable fortitude in the storms of life (Persuasion). Do you struggle to know what to do or who to believe in tricky situations? Join Catherine Morland in learning prudence to know and act on the truth (Northanger Abbey). Whether you are already an Austen fan or are discovering her works for the first time, Stewart’s infectious enthusiasm and captivating spiritual insights will have you digging in to experience firsthand the characters and stories that have captured imaginations in book and film for more than two centuries. Discussion questions and recommended film adaptations make this book suitable for individual or group use or as a high school classroom or homeschool resource. A free, downloadable leader’s guide is available at avemariapress.com.

Author : Roy Adkins,Lesley Adkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101622865

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Jane Austen's England by Roy Adkins,Lesley Adkins Pdf

An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions. From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.

Author : Sarah Jane Downing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-20
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780747809425

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Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Downing Pdf

The broader Regency period 1795 to 1820, stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history, unlike anything that went before it. For the first time England became a fashion influence, especially for menswear, and became the toast of Paris, as court dress became secondary to the season-by-season flux of fashion as we know it today. Sarah Jane Downing explores the fashion revolution and the innovation that inspired a flood of fashions taking influence from far afield. It was an era of contradiction immortalised by Jane Austen, who adeptly used the new-found diversity of fashion to enliven her characters: Wickham's military splendour; Mr Darcy's understated elegance; and Miss Tilney's romantic fixation with white muslin.

Author : Daniel Pool
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439144800

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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Pdf

A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs. An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.

Author : Josephine Ross,Henrietta Webb
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781408834725

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Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners by Josephine Ross,Henrietta Webb Pdf

How to pay and return formal 'calls'; how to refuse a proposal of marriage; who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball; what to wear for a morning walk... Today such social niceties are largely ignored or forgotten, but they underpin all of Jane Austen's timeless novels and are explored and dealt with in this highly original book. Written as if intended for Austen's original readers in the Regency era, and illustrated with exquisitely witty watercolours, Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, entertaining and instructive little handbook of etiquette as depicted in Jane's novels and letters. It will not only offer sound wisdom and pearls of advice, but also encourage the modern-day reader to look back at Jane's work with a new and deepened appreciation.

Author : Jane Austen,Ben H. Winters
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594744426

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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen,Ben H. Winters Pdf

New York Times bestseller An uproarious tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem inspired by the classic Jane Austen novel—from the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest—and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!

Author : Susannah Fullerton
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780760344361

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Celebrating Pride and Prejudice by Susannah Fullerton Pdf

"First published in the United Kingdom in 2012 by Frances Lincoln Limited under the title Happily ever after: a celebration of Pride and prejudice"--T.p. verso.

Author : Rachel M. Brownstein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231153904

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Why Jane Austen? by Rachel M. Brownstein Pdf

Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane.

Author : Cheryl A. Wilson,Maria H. Frawley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429675263

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The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen by Cheryl A. Wilson,Maria H. Frawley Pdf

First published anonymously, as ‘a lady’, Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.

Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139458559

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The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen by Janet Todd Pdf

Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This innovative introduction by a leading scholar and editor of her work explains what students need to know about her novels, life, context and reception. Each novel is discussed in detail, and all the essential information about her life and literary influences, her novels and letters, and her impact on later literature and culture is covered. While the book considers the key areas of current critical focus its analysis remains thoroughly grounded in readings of the texts themselves. Janet Todd outlines what makes Austen's prose style so innovative and gives useful starting points for the study of the major works, with suggestions for further reading. This book is an essential purchase for all students of Austen, as well as for readers wanting to deepen their appreciation of the novels.

Author : Elizabeth Kantor
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781596980112

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English And American Literature by Elizabeth Kantor Pdf

Citing declining coverage of classic English and American literature in today's schools, a "politically incorrect" primer challenges popular misconceptions while introducing the works of such core masters as Shakespeare, Faulkner, and Austen, in a volume that is complemented by a syllabus and a self-study guide. Original.