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Each of us has a private Austen.
It was essential to reintroduce Austen into your life regularly, Jocelyn said, let her look around. We suspected a hidden agenda, but who would put Jane Austen to an evil purpose?
Wasn’t it Kipling who said, “Nothing like Jane when you’re in a tight spot”? Or something very like that?
Allegra’s Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she’d worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.
honi soit qui mal y pense.
koan,
pomo
The Mysteries of Udolpho?”
No one with real integrity tries to sell their integrity to you. People with real integrity hardly notice they have it. You see a campaign that focuses on character, rectitude, probity, and that’s exactly when you should start asking yourself, What’s this guy trying to hide?
Why should unhappiness be so much more powerful than happiness?”
Persuasion is all about earning your place.
But in life everyone has the same ending, and the only question is who will get to it first.
1924—Rudyard Kipling, epigraph to “The Janeites”24 Jane lies in Winchester—blessed be her shade! Praise the Lord for making her, and her for all she made! And while the stones of Winchester, or Milsom Street, remain, Glory, love, and honor unto England’s Jane.
