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Lona Manning
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CMP#39 Symbolism in Mansfield Park?
Clutching My Pearls is about Jane Austen and the times she lived in. Click here for the first in the series. Disclaimer: To repeat something I mentioned at the beginning of this series of posts about Mansfield Park, "When I say I disagree that Mansfield Park is an anti-slavery novel, it does not mean I want to shut my eyes and ears and read Read more of this blog post »
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Hi Sage North -- as it happens, this story is an extract from my Mansfield Trilogy. It's from the third book in the trilogy. I pulled this out as a separate story in case there were any people who wanted to read about Shelley but didn't want to read
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And I love Anne and Captain Wentworth too but I just had to laugh at the way she portrayed Anne! So sly and funny!
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“Every age before this one has performed or permitted acts that to us are morally stupefying. So unless we have any reason to think we are more reasonable, morally better or wiser than at any time in the past, it is reasonable to assume there will be some things we are presently doing – possibly while flushed with moral virtue – that our descendants will whistle through their teeth at, and say ‘What the hell were they thinking?’ It is worth wondering what the blind spots of our age might be. What might we be doing that will be regarded by succeeding generations in the same way we now look on the slave trade or using Victorian children as chimney sweeps?”
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“The sternest commissar and the wildest hippie both share the same daydream: that a thing can be worth other than people are willing to give for it.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
― A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
― A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
― The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
― The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
“Kiss me, Rose” was all I could manage, and my beautiful girl—well, they say a gentleman does not kiss and tell....”
― Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues
― Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues
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