Isabella Rogge's Blog: The Redhead Writer, page 110
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Afternoon sunlight streaming in through the windows, a book I can’t put down, and a day to celebrate the women who make the world go round.
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Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers, mothers-to-be and grandmothers. I’m surrounded daily by women who I aspire to be like, and I’m lucky enough to call several women mom.
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On a reading note, The Queen and The Cure is completely taking over my life and I never want it to end
"Read until the world looks bright again."
- My advice for those having a bad day. (via bookeworm94)
Literally the only three things you need to know about Jane Austen
1. Her first major novel (Northanger Abbey) was written solely because she was so salty about how dramatic and cliche and formula Gothic novels were. You know what I mean. Every castle is foreboding. Every villain is awful but can’t bring himself to kill the heroine because she’s Too Pure. Every middle-aged female companion wants to do the heroine in. The heroine is Pure and Perfect and Is Good At Everything Young Women Should Be and recites quotes and/or the Bible whenever she’s in danger and that makes everything better. All butlers are evil. Jane Austen wrote a book specifically to go “THIS is how NORMAL people react to things!!!”
2. “She never changed her opinion about books or men”
3. “As a girl she wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances” and you know what that means. Jane Austen started off writing smut fanfiction. If that’s not writing reassurement that you can be great no matter what you choose to write, I don’t know what is.
(Both quotes from the Penguin Classics version of Northanger Abbey)
