Jane Austen For Dummies Quotes

“It is very unfair to judge of anybody’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be’” (E 1:18).”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“Having “lost her bloom” in the eight years since her romance and break-up with Captain Wentworth before the novel begins, Anne is wispy and quiet, still in love with Wentworth, but feeling helpless to do anything about it because he hasn’t attempted to contact her again, and protocol of the day says she can’t make the first move in contacting him.”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“Sensibility, in Austen’s time, meant relying on one’s feelings as a guide to behavior, as a guide to truth.”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“Dr. James Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women, published in 1765”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“The most famous courtesy book is Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, published in 1528.”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“By paying attention to another woman (Edward to Lucy and Frederick to Louisa), about whom he doesn’t really care, each man hurts the woman he really loves and who really loves him.”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“Emma is the eponymous heroine, which means having the name that is used as the title or name of something else.)”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“I cannot make speeches, Emma. . . . If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more’” (E 3:13).”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“Capping means to follow up with something good or better in a conversation.”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“A voracious reader with a large memory for what she read,”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies