Jane Austen

And there's a nice romance in it.

I think it was like a really Lovely nod to Jane Austen and the characters she built.

So I would recommend that book.

I love all of Alyssa Cole's catalog of romance.

mean it's kind of crazy so why does he have to do that it's like well because maybe he can because he's resourceful i guess and then it gets to a point where you're sort of thinking well this seems an impossible situation how's he gonna how's he gonna get past this and then he comes up with this plan that we see unfold and that's the that's the plot of the film yeah isn't it

and we don't know what the plan is either so we're watching that it's happening I mean, it's almost like a Jane Austen type premise.

You've got to break up these two.

Because it's tied up with all this reputational stakes, you know? Somebody holds all of the power in terms of reputation.

So, Louise, I have to ask, what's your favorite book?

I feel bad for saying it changes I think that I really loved I adore Jane Eyre until the point until until I got to read or I married him and then I thought what are you actually joking me like he's got some poor his last wife was locked up in the attic and uh yeah he's a big liar and a chancer and you need to get the hell out of that as soon as possible but I guess that was a book that was really important to me then up to a point obviously my favourite book that is so hard I think I really loved Jane Austen's Persuasion I love Beloved, Tony Morrison's Beloved.

I love nearly anything that Edna Ryan wrote.

Maybe especially I love A Pagan Place and In the Forest.

Hi everyone, welcome back to Book Tales Podcast and welcome to the first in our newest batch of our recurring series, because we love to cover them so much, which is of recent adaptations.

So the first book we're going to be covering in this new batch of adaptations is Sense and Sensibility, of course, by Jane Austen, first published in 1811, adaptation released 2026.

We will also be touching on the 1995 adaptation throughout this episode because how could we not? But first, how are you, Rach?

I'm alright.

In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections.

Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Eleanor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centered fortune hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerously susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men.

Through her heroine's parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, Jane Austen offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive.

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Jane Austen.

Kia ora, welcome to the Amateur Austenite.

I'm Frances Duncan, life coach, author and Austenite.

My co-host is the delightful beatboxer, Rachel Poirier, book buyer, Austenite

and all-around nerd.

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And so when things are revealed later, she's like, all of a sudden got to change her whole perspective on this.

I wonder what made

We should be surprised if one of the spinsters in Cranford, after tightly sweeping up the room with a broom, were to fly away on a broomstick.

Our attention would be arrested if one of Jane Austen's young ladies, having just met a dragoon, were to walk a little further and meet a dragon.

Yet something very like this extraordinary transition takes place in British history at the end of the purely Roman period.

We have to do with rational and almost mechanical accounts of encampment and engineering, of a busy bureaucracy and occasional frontier wars, quite modern in their efficiency and inefficiency.

assumed that the old faith was dead those who held it still like the great johnson were considered eccentrics the french revolution was a riot that broke up the very formal funeral of christianity and was followed by various other complications including the corpse coming to

life but the scepticism was no mere oligarchic orgy it was not confined to the hell-fire club which might in virtue of its vivid name be regarded as relatively orthodox It is present in the mildest middle-class atmosphere, as in the middle-class masterpiece about Northanger Abbey, where we actually remember it is an antiquity without ever remembering it is an abbey.

Indeed, there is no clearer case of it than what can only be called the atheism of Jane Austen.

Unfortunately, it could truly be said of the English gentleman, as of another gallant and gracious individual, that his honour stood rooted in dishonour.

But with Byline, in addition to revision history, when we have the teacher-facing and the student-facing data, that gets the students to reframe writing as a series of choices.

Okay, I need to go find this quotation from a website that tells me about Jane Austen.

I am making a conscious choice to say I am going to this website.

It is going to be logged.

I love that.

This is sort of a similar question, but I have to ask you this because I wrote my master's thesis on Jane Austen and Sex and the City, and people are always like, what? That's so bizarre.

Like, why? How? But, you know, in my mind, it's kind of like you're talking about this, you know, Little House on the Prairie.

They're like very, very linked.

I regularly sit down and read French classics, Russian classics.

I've read all Jane Austen.

I've read all of the fucking Dickens.

I, like, I've read so many classic works.