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The guardianship of religion and morals: prayer and manners in Mansfield Park | Jane Austen's Microcosm
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Jane Austen's Microcosm. Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on. The guardianship of religion and morals: prayer and manners in Mansfield Park. November 1, 2016. November 3, 2016. Was formerly in constant use both morning and evening. Prayers were always read in it by the domestic chaplain, within the memory of many; but the late Mr Rushworth left it off.’. Every generation has its improvements,’ said Miss Crawford, with a smile, to Edmund. I wonder where she got such id...
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November | 2016 | Jane Austen's Microcosm
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Jane Austen's Microcosm. Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on. If I could but know his heart: Willoughby’s story and Marianne’s closure. November 17, 2016. November 20, 2016. If I could but know. Heart, everything would become easy,’ says Marianne Dashwood to her sister a few months after Willoughby’s betrayal. He has already opened it to Elinor, hoping she may eventually convey his passionate apology to her:. Mrs Dashwood’s referring to his seduction of Eliza Williams...
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Nine children and a very small income: How poor are the Prices? | Jane Austen's Microcosm
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Jane Austen's Microcosm. Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on. Nine children and a very small income: How poor are the Prices? October 19, 2016. October 20, 2016. In chapter 1 we’re told that her mother wedded. Captain Harville, a little lame and frail as a consequence of a severe wound,. Assuming his wife’s dowry had been equal to Lady Bertram’s, it would have yielded about. They could have done much worse. Having been made a Lieutenant in 1796, the Austens’ former ne...
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Perfectly qualified by his seat in the House: politicians and electioneering in Jane Austen’s writings | Jane Austen's Microcosm
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Jane Austen's Microcosm. Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on. Perfectly qualified by his seat in the House: politicians and electioneering in Jane Austen’s writings. July 26, 2016. September 15, 2016. In Sense and Sensibility. Mary Crawford disagrees: ‘You ought to be in parliament,’ she tells him, ‘or you should have gone into the army ten years ago.’ To her ‘a clergyman is nothing.’. In the former novel, Mrs Palmer says her husband. But, poor fellow! Rather shone in...
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‘The guilt of those who carry it on’: the slave-trade in Mansfield Park and Emma | Jane Austen's Microcosm
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Jane Austen's Microcosm. Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on. 8216;The guilt of those who carry it on’: the slave-trade in Mansfield Park and Emma. May 3, 2016. September 17, 2016. Frank Austen, who as a naval officer had to enforce the prohibition of the slave-trade was deeply shocked by the horrors of the Middle Passage. In 1807 he called at St Helena:. Her favourite poet William Cowper was also an active abolitionist, whose work The Negro’s Complaint. Sir Thomas Be...
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August | 2016 | Jane Austen's Microcosm
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Jane Austen's Microcosm. Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on. The influence of strength over weakness: will Lady Susan ever meet her match? August 23, 2016. November 9, 2016. Here’s a sensible woman who’s clearly not impressed. She knows what ‘the best families’ can be like. At some point Lady Susan herself acknowledges she ‘cannot just now afford to go to town.’. Was a great deal too kind to her when he was in Staffordshire; her behaviour to him, independent of her g...
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Scolding, compassion, and relief: charity in Pride and Prejudice and Emma | Jane Austen's Microcosm
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Jane Austen's Microcosm. Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on. Scolding, compassion, and relief: charity in Pride and Prejudice and Emma. October 1, 2016. He is the best landlord, and the best master,’ says Mrs Reynolds in Pride and Prejudice. To be sure, the good lady who shewed us the house did give him a most flaming character! I could hardly help laughing aloud sometimes. But he is a liberal master, I suppose, and. Lady Catherine, by contrast,. Was a most active ma...