Sometimes I think about what authors of the past would make of their legacy if they could see it. What would Jane Austen think about her novels longevity? Of the fact that authors write novels based on hers? That there are people who devote an entire month to reading her works exclusively? That there is a museum dedicated to her life?
Absolutely! I do wonder. It would be kind of amazing to see what she might think of it. I feel like she would be flattered and excited by some of it and totally bemused by other things. This comment did make me think of this comic: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=263 XD
A number of years ago at a fundraiser the successive winners of the series of raffles had a choice of prizes.As the winners before me neglected to choose the novels of Jane Austen in a compilation volume I elected to remedy that slight.I packed it away,until last year thanks to Ciara Foster hosting a read along of the novels,although I did read the black spine Penguin edition of Pride And Prejudice two years ago.I think each novel has its particular strengths and flavour and if I have absorbed anything of her spirit,she must have chuckled seen you extolling her virtues to the masses.😁✨
I first saw a play of Pride and Prejudice with my dad and friend in high school. That kicked off a Jane Austen obsession for both me and my dad. We read Pride and Prejudice and watched the 1995 adaptation after that. In college, I studied abroad in England and got to visit Bath. The next year, I took a Jane Austen class and got to read all six novels and the Claire Tomalin biography. I think this is my third Jane Austen July, and I love it. Thank you Katie!
Hi. All in all, the 1995 adaptation is excellent but it should have mentioned that the Bingleys were nouveau riche. You will know that they were "new money" because you have read the book, However, many people inevitably get the wrong impression and think that they were of higher birth than the Bennets.
I started rereading Pride and Prejudice this morning for the first time since I was in college. I was so captivated by it that I read all of Book 1. This is a holiday weekend in America, and I expect to be finished by Monday. Thank you for motivating me to undertake this delightful read.
Completely agree that Jane Austen works so well on audiobook--her books are meant to be read aloud. And inquiring minds want to know: why Jane Austen *July* (as opposed to Jane Austen June or Jane Austen August, for example)?
So, Jane Austen was born in December and died in July, so those months were our first thoughts, and then we felt a lot of people read Christmassy books in December so that pushed us towards July.
My first Jane Austen was in 1996 when I was 16 yrs, after watching the BBC P&P mini series. Then I promptly raced through all her novels, at first thinking there would be loads so I didn’t need to pace myself- then realising there were only 6 full length novels. This is my 5th Jane Austen July- I’ve stayed away from readathons so far this year- I think I was a bit burnt out from them and having concentration issues due to life demands and autoimmune issues. But I couldn’t let this one pass me by. It’s such a special experience. And I hope no-one was playing a drinking game for how many times Jane Austen was mentioned in this video! 😂 xx
This my third Jane Austen July and I think I read some Jane Austen before Booktube but got more into her work after joining here. Pride and prejudice is my favourite
This is my fourth Jane Austen July. I love it (and her) so much! I read Emma, my first JA, in 1993, so next year I suppose I'll have to do a retrospective! I'll just tell everyone I was an infant when I started reading JA.
This is my first Jane Austen July, plus I've recently begun my own channel. This video is such a wonderful introduction to why you're passionate about hosting Jane Austen July - the depth of a Bacherlors and Masters in Literature but you actually LIVED it by dressing in the period costume and answering questions at the Bath Jane Austen Centre! Talk about immersive. I recommended JA July to a lifelong Austen fan and she said that she found it spurred her own writing creativity - so thank you. I think if Jane knew about all that's going on, she would laugh with delight.
My first Austen was Emma - the first book I studied in English Literature at university. The lecturer was boring, I didnt get Austen and wondered what all the fuss was about. In 4th year, (I was doing English teaching methodology), our lecturer showed the 1948 P&P and I was entranced (this was a couple of decades before the 95 BBC series). I've now read them all apart from S&S. i'm participating in Jane Austen July for the first time this year
My first experience of Jane Austen was not reading a book it was watching a Sunday serial - BBC Sunday teatime costume drama series The first one I remember is Emma but I think I had seen others beforehand as the whole family sat down and watched these kind of series. My first reading experience was as a teenager when I borrowed Pride and Prejudice from my mother's collection It was a leather bound edition with very thin paper and the text was quite small. I slowly worked through the six major novels and only encountered the other writings much much later in my thirties. This year I will be re-reading P&P again but this time to make me read slowly I have chosen to read it in the Shaw Alphabet edition where it is transliterated into a script developed in 1962 as a result of George Bernard Shaw's will hence the name. It will mean I do a slow read of P&P this year and connect to my own personal reading project #1962project where I am reading books connected to the year of my birth 1962 to celebrate my sixtieth birthday this April.
I have just remembered that J. Austin's Sense and Sensibilia - a work of philosophy by the philosopher John L. Austin was published in 1962 so I will also read that in July LOL
My first Jane Austen book was Pride and Prejudice when I was in high school. Since then I have read all of her books except Emma. I am reading that book this year. Of course I've seen all the movies. This is my 3rd Jane Austen July. It's my favorite month of the year.
This was so interesting to hear about, especially as your relationship with Austen has deepened over the years. I'm so glad you started Jane Austen July ☺️
I first read Pride and Prejudice when I was 16 and over the summers I was in university I read 1 Austen per summer. I studied Northanger Abbey in university as well and it really opened my eyes to the layers of her works. Jane Austen is now associated with my birthday and summer now as I have participated in I think 4 Jane Austen July's.
What a fun video! I think I read my first Austen around the same age as you, and it was also Pride and Prejudice! Completely agree that Fanny Price is an underrated heroine. Looking forward to an Austen-filled month!
This is my 3rd year of Jane Austen July and I look forward to it every year!! :) I am so thankful for Jane Austen July for many reasons; 1) it introduced me to other books by Jane Austen besides Pride and Prejudice, which is the only one I had read and still love the most, and 2) it sent me on a wonderful reading journey of classic novels.
My original Penguin copy of Emma has "1983" scrawled inside the cover, so it's been quite a while. One of my teachers was a proselytising Janeite, and to tell the truth it wasn't immediately obvious that he'd done me a favour. I spent much of my twenties reading every candidate for The Great American Novel (it's still Moby-Dick, by the way), and most of the big European ones too, and was just about ready after all that for something more, ahem, subtle. Nowadays the annual Austen is something to look forward to which I regard as a treat. The last one was Mansfield Park; it'll probably be Sense and Sensibility next, and my long-confirmed favourite is, you guessed it, Emma.
I think this is my third time participating in Jane Austen July. I've also been reading Jane Austen for 15 or more years. I think my introduction to her was one of my sisters getting the 1995 P&P adaptation and after seeing that several times I read and loved the book.
"Emma" and "Lady Susan" are my favourite Austen's novels so far but can't wait to read Mansfield Park 🤩 I was a bit disappointed with "Persuasion", too predictable I thought, and felt bored with "Sense &sensibility" ...Did enjoy '95 BBC version of "P&P" 🥰
I love your channel, it feels like having a smart, lovely friend to "talk about" the books I like and to teach me more about books I don't know !! hehehe. I know it sounds silly. But just so you know, your channel warms a lot of people's hearts!! 😍
It would have been in the 90s when a book club I was in found out I'd never read Jane Austen and promptly chose Pride and Prejudice for the next month's reading. I still have not read Persuasion (which I hope to rectify this month) and Northanger Abbey (which I probably won't get to, but hope to read soon). Somehow I must have watched the 1995 versions of both Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility without having read the books, but I'm so glad I finally got around to it!
I'm participating for the first time: Pride and Prejudice, on your suggestion. My first dive into Jane Austen. Honestly, it's fabulous. Next in the queue, Longbourn. Death in Pemberley is ordered and on its way. Shall I endeavour to read Wuthering Heights for one of Janes' contemporaries? Time will tell. Films: the 2005 adaptation, and then Brigit Jones' Diary (to keep in theme with Pemberley).
I read Persuasion as my first Jane Austen, some time ten or fifteen years ago. The second was Sense and Sensibility. After that I didn't read any Jane Austen until earlier this year, when I read Pride and Prejudice and Emma. I read a lot and all kinds of books and the TBR list keeps growing and I get distracted very easily so even though I intend to read a book it can stay unread for ages. Am planning on reading Mansfield Park and Lady Susan for Jane Austen July, Faust as a contemporary and some book about the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars as non-fiction. For historical fiction set in the time of JA I haven't decided yet. Possibly I'll reread a Patrick O'Brian because he was such a huge fan of JA, which really shows in some of his books.
I also thought of Austen as too fluffy when I first read her as a teenager. I read Emma at 17 for A-level and I didn’t like Emma and I just thought it was all about love and matchmaking, completely missing the humour and excellently plotted story, though my immature teenage self would often refuse to like something based on my initial impression - I was ridiculous. Mature me is grateful for the chance to re-read classics with more reading and life experience behind me to enjoy them. My subsequent reading and re-reading of all Austen’s work as I’ve grown older has delighted me anew each time and, like you, I find the subtleties and cleverness of her writing increases on each re-read. Jane Austen July has definitely enriched my love of her work and I don’t think I’ll ever not spend a month a year immersing myself in her work now even if JAJ doesn’t continue (which I’m sure it will! 😂). I love the Rosamund Pike audio and my other favourite narrator is Juliet Stevenson who made me laugh out loud listening to Northanger Abbey last year. Loved hearing about your job at the Austen museum - how wonderful!
Haha us dismissing Jane Austen when we were younger, how foolish we were! I just love her so much now. Rosamund Pike and Juliet Stevenson are wonderful narrators.
My first time reading Jane Austen was last summer. I read Pride and Prejudice and loved it! This winter I read Northanger Abbey and loved that one even more than Pride and Prejudice (probably an unpopular opinion but oh well). I read Persuasion this spring and really struggled through it. People keep telling me to read it a second time and I'll like it but I'm not sure. I'd like to read Emma or Sense and Sensibilty next.
I'm deeply attached to Jane Austen July because it made me find 2 of my favourite books (Tooth and Claw by Jow Walton and Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley). Hopefully I can find another one this year? :)
It's a total coincidence, but I just started _Persuasion_ yesterday. As an aside, though, I need to ask if you have done a _What the Dickens_ for _The Mystery of Edwin Drood._ I'm seriously considering putting this on my TBR and I'd like to hear your input. Thank you in advance.
I have not - I have read The Mystery of Edwin Drood but not for 10 years. I'm due a reread. I highly recommend it though - it's FANTASTIC, but it's so very gutting that it isn't finished.
That's a lot of likes, Katie. The thing I find in reading Jane Austen, is that her language seems so wordy and old fashioned that it is really hard getting used to her style. Also in P and P, she seems so preoccupied with money and property, it kind of gets a bit much for an old Romantic like me.
Many! Some are here ua-cam.com/video/G20Co9qr6G0/v-deo.html . I'd also really recommend Pride by Ibi Zoboi, which is a modern retelling; I don't think I'd read that one when I made that video.
So I guess you're a fan of Jane Austen....having mentioned the phrase "Jane Austen" 122 times in your video...😂😂😂 (Don't ask me why I counted....I do have a life...really..!) Love to hear the passion in each video you do! Have a great JAJ!! 😊
Lol!!! The other person in the comment section said 102! Which one of you is right? 😂🤣 If I wasn't so lazy I'd count it myself just to find out 😂🤣 we should do a drinking game, it would be fun!! 😜💞
I just ran through Lady Susan. It's a quick read; obviously Jane Austen had some experience with narcissism. My feeling on completing the novella is that Lady Susan is a lot like Joan Crawford, complete with mistreated daughter.
Jane was a great writer but some of her social commentary cannot be taken at face value. In Persuasion, for example, she gives the impression that baronets were small fry on the fringe of high society but she must have known that was not the case. For a start, from time to time newspapers announced that daughters of baronets were marring dukes and earls etc and Jane must have sometimes read those announcements. In Mansfield Park she does not belittle baronets, but perhaps she had been irritated by a baronet by the time she put pen to paper with Persuasion.
I think the impression I always get in Persuasion is that Sir Walter Elliot is on the fringe, because of his behaviour and profligacy, rather than baronets in general.
@@katiejlumsden Hi. Sir Walter's stupidity and pomposity would undoubtedly alienate other members of high society. Nonetheless, over the years I have read comments by some English literature academics and other Jane Austen devotees who wrongly conclude that baronets in general are peripheral figures in upper class circles. Indeed, I once heard a professor say that baronets are middle class!!!! I am sure that the 13th Duke of Argyll would be astonished to hear that his maternal grandfather Sir Ivar Colquhoun was from a middle class background. Moreover, one of Argyll's relatives, the 9th Earl of Arran (another maternal grandson of a baronet) would no doubt feel the same way too.
Sometimes I think about what authors of the past would make of their legacy if they could see it. What would Jane Austen think about her novels longevity? Of the fact that authors write novels based on hers? That there are people who devote an entire month to reading her works exclusively? That there is a museum dedicated to her life?
Absolutely! I do wonder. It would be kind of amazing to see what she might think of it. I feel like she would be flattered and excited by some of it and totally bemused by other things.
This comment did make me think of this comic: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=263 XD
A number of years ago at a fundraiser the successive winners of the series of raffles had a choice of prizes.As the winners before me neglected to choose the novels of Jane Austen in a compilation volume I elected to remedy that slight.I packed it away,until last year thanks to Ciara Foster hosting a read along of the novels,although I did read the black spine Penguin edition of Pride And Prejudice two years ago.I think each novel has its particular strengths and flavour and if I have absorbed anything of her spirit,she must have chuckled seen you extolling her virtues to the masses.😁✨
I first saw a play of Pride and Prejudice with my dad and friend in high school. That kicked off a Jane Austen obsession for both me and my dad. We read Pride and Prejudice and watched the 1995 adaptation after that. In college, I studied abroad in England and got to visit Bath. The next year, I took a Jane Austen class and got to read all six novels and the Claire Tomalin biography. I think this is my third Jane Austen July, and I love it. Thank you Katie!
Hi. All in all, the 1995 adaptation is excellent but it should have mentioned that the Bingleys were nouveau riche. You will know that they were "new money" because you have read the book, However, many people inevitably get the wrong impression and think that they were of higher birth than the Bennets.
@@glendodds3824 Good point!
I started rereading Pride and Prejudice this morning for the first time since I was in college. I was so captivated by it that I read all of Book 1. This is a holiday weekend in America, and I expect to be finished by Monday. Thank you for motivating me to undertake this delightful read.
Completely agree that Jane Austen works so well on audiobook--her books are meant to be read aloud. And inquiring minds want to know: why Jane Austen *July* (as opposed to Jane Austen June or Jane Austen August, for example)?
So, Jane Austen was born in December and died in July, so those months were our first thoughts, and then we felt a lot of people read Christmassy books in December so that pushed us towards July.
@@katiejlumsden Makes perfect sense.
My first Jane Austen was in 1996 when I was 16 yrs, after watching the BBC P&P mini series. Then I promptly raced through all her novels, at first thinking there would be loads so I didn’t need to pace myself- then realising there were only 6 full length novels. This is my 5th Jane Austen July- I’ve stayed away from readathons so far this year- I think I was a bit burnt out from them and having concentration issues due to life demands and autoimmune issues. But I couldn’t let this one pass me by. It’s such a special experience. And I hope no-one was playing a drinking game for how many times Jane Austen was mentioned in this video! 😂 xx
This my third Jane Austen July and I think I read some Jane Austen before Booktube but got more into her work after joining here. Pride and prejudice is my favourite
This is my fourth Jane Austen July. I love it (and her) so much! I read Emma, my first JA, in 1993, so next year I suppose I'll have to do a retrospective! I'll just tell everyone I was an infant when I started reading JA.
Talking about Jane Austen's family, I saw a bronze plaque to a naval officer called Austen in a local church. Looked him up and he was her nephew.
So interesting!
My first Jane Austen was Emma when I was ten. This is the fifth year of Austen July with you and Marissa. Always a pleasure!! xo
This is my first Jane Austen July, plus I've recently begun my own channel. This video is such a wonderful introduction to why you're passionate about hosting Jane Austen July - the depth of a Bacherlors and Masters in Literature but you actually LIVED it by dressing in the period costume and answering questions at the Bath Jane Austen Centre! Talk about immersive. I recommended JA July to a lifelong Austen fan and she said that she found it spurred her own writing creativity - so thank you. I think if Jane knew about all that's going on, she would laugh with delight.
My first Austen was Emma - the first book I studied in English Literature at university. The lecturer was boring, I didnt get Austen and wondered what all the fuss was about. In 4th year, (I was doing English teaching methodology), our lecturer showed the 1948 P&P and I was entranced (this was a couple of decades before the 95 BBC series). I've now read them all apart from S&S. i'm participating in Jane Austen July for the first time this year
My first experience of Jane Austen was not reading a book
it was watching a Sunday serial - BBC Sunday teatime costume drama series
The first one I remember is Emma
but I think I had seen others beforehand
as the whole family sat down and watched these kind of series.
My first reading experience was as a teenager
when I borrowed Pride and Prejudice from my mother's collection
It was a leather bound edition with very thin paper and the text was quite small.
I slowly worked through the six major novels
and only encountered the other writings much much later in my thirties.
This year I will be re-reading P&P again
but this time to make me read slowly
I have chosen to read it in the Shaw Alphabet edition
where it is transliterated into a script developed in 1962
as a result of George Bernard Shaw's will
hence the name.
It will mean I do a slow read of P&P this year
and connect to my own personal reading project
#1962project
where I am reading books connected to the year of my birth 1962
to celebrate my sixtieth birthday this April.
I have just remembered that J. Austin's Sense and Sensibilia - a work of philosophy by the philosopher John L. Austin was published in 1962 so I will also read that in July LOL
My first Jane Austen book was Pride and Prejudice when I was in high school. Since then I have read all of her books except Emma. I am reading that book this year. Of course I've seen all the movies. This is my 3rd Jane Austen July. It's my favorite month of the year.
This was so interesting to hear about, especially as your relationship with Austen has deepened over the years. I'm so glad you started Jane Austen July ☺️
I first read Pride and Prejudice when I was 16 and over the summers I was in university I read 1 Austen per summer. I studied Northanger Abbey in university as well and it really opened my eyes to the layers of her works. Jane Austen is now associated with my birthday and summer now as I have participated in I think 4 Jane Austen July's.
What a fun video! I think I read my first Austen around the same age as you, and it was also Pride and Prejudice! Completely agree that Fanny Price is an underrated heroine. Looking forward to an Austen-filled month!
This is my 3rd year of Jane Austen July and I look forward to it every year!! :) I am so thankful for Jane Austen July for many reasons; 1) it introduced me to other books by Jane Austen besides Pride and Prejudice, which is the only one I had read and still love the most, and 2) it sent me on a wonderful reading journey of classic novels.
Wonderful video, Katie!
My original Penguin copy of Emma has "1983" scrawled inside the cover, so it's been quite a while. One of my teachers was a proselytising Janeite, and to tell the truth it wasn't immediately obvious that he'd done me a favour. I spent much of my twenties reading every candidate for The Great American Novel (it's still Moby-Dick, by the way), and most of the big European ones too, and was just about ready after all that for something more, ahem, subtle. Nowadays the annual Austen is something to look forward to which I regard as a treat. The last one was Mansfield Park; it'll probably be Sense and Sensibility next, and my long-confirmed favourite is, you guessed it, Emma.
I think this is my third time participating in Jane Austen July. I've also been reading Jane Austen for 15 or more years. I think my introduction to her was one of my sisters getting the 1995 P&P adaptation and after seeing that several times I read and loved the book.
"Emma" and "Lady Susan" are my favourite Austen's novels so far but can't wait to read Mansfield Park 🤩
I was a bit disappointed with "Persuasion", too predictable I thought, and felt bored with "Sense &sensibility" ...Did enjoy '95 BBC version of "P&P" 🥰
I love your channel, it feels like having a smart, lovely friend to "talk about" the books I like and to teach me more about books I don't know !! hehehe.
I know it sounds silly. But just so you know, your channel warms a lot of people's hearts!! 😍
Thank you so much! :) It means a lot.
It would have been in the 90s when a book club I was in found out I'd never read Jane Austen and promptly chose Pride and Prejudice for the next month's reading. I still have not read Persuasion (which I hope to rectify this month) and Northanger Abbey (which I probably won't get to, but hope to read soon). Somehow I must have watched the 1995 versions of both Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility without having read the books, but I'm so glad I finally got around to it!
I'm participating for the first time: Pride and Prejudice, on your suggestion. My first dive into Jane Austen. Honestly, it's fabulous.
Next in the queue, Longbourn. Death in Pemberley is ordered and on its way.
Shall I endeavour to read Wuthering Heights for one of Janes' contemporaries? Time will tell.
Films: the 2005 adaptation, and then Brigit Jones' Diary (to keep in theme with Pemberley).
So glad you're enjoying Pride and Prejudice!
I read Persuasion as my first Jane Austen, some time ten or fifteen years ago. The second was Sense and Sensibility. After that I didn't read any Jane Austen until earlier this year, when I read Pride and Prejudice and Emma.
I read a lot and all kinds of books and the TBR list keeps growing and I get distracted very easily so even though I intend to read a book it can stay unread for ages.
Am planning on reading Mansfield Park and Lady Susan for Jane Austen July, Faust as a contemporary and some book about the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars as non-fiction. For historical fiction set in the time of JA I haven't decided yet. Possibly I'll reread a Patrick O'Brian because he was such a huge fan of JA, which really shows in some of his books.
I am considering listening to the audio book of Mansfield Park. The service I use has twelve different narrators. Which would you recommend?
I really like the audiobook narrated by Frances Barber.
@@katiejlumsden Thank you!
I also thought of Austen as too fluffy when I first read her as a teenager. I read Emma at 17 for A-level and I didn’t like Emma and I just thought it was all about love and matchmaking, completely missing the humour and excellently plotted story, though my immature teenage self would often refuse to like something based on my initial impression - I was ridiculous. Mature me is grateful for the chance to re-read classics with more reading and life experience behind me to enjoy them. My subsequent reading and re-reading of all Austen’s work as I’ve grown older has delighted me anew each time and, like you, I find the subtleties and cleverness of her writing increases on each re-read. Jane Austen July has definitely enriched my love of her work and I don’t think I’ll ever not spend a month a year immersing myself in her work now even if JAJ doesn’t continue (which I’m sure it will! 😂). I love the Rosamund Pike audio and my other favourite narrator is Juliet Stevenson who made me laugh out loud listening to Northanger Abbey last year. Loved hearing about your job at the Austen museum - how wonderful!
Haha us dismissing Jane Austen when we were younger, how foolish we were! I just love her so much now. Rosamund Pike and Juliet Stevenson are wonderful narrators.
I started with Mansfield Park because Nabokov has a published lecture on it.
My first time reading Jane Austen was last summer. I read Pride and Prejudice and loved it! This winter I read Northanger Abbey and loved that one even more than Pride and Prejudice (probably an unpopular opinion but oh well). I read Persuasion this spring and really struggled through it. People keep telling me to read it a second time and I'll like it but I'm not sure. I'd like to read Emma or Sense and Sensibilty next.
Hi! first year participating and I have never read Jane Austen. My goal is to read and annotate Pride and Prejudice.
Fun fact...
Katie said Jane Austen 102 times during this video 😆
I was thinking of making this video into a drinking game but I don't think there would be any survivors
@@loublk82
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I love that not one but two of you watching counted XD What can I say? I love Jane Austen.
Hi Katie,
This my first Jane Austen July📕
Thanks for sharing.I now really want to listen on audio to Jane Austen 😊
I highly recommend it!
I'm deeply attached to Jane Austen July because it made me find 2 of my favourite books (Tooth and Claw by Jow Walton and Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley). Hopefully I can find another one this year? :)
I haven't read Tooth and Claw, but maybe I need to!
When you worked at The Jane Austen Center In Bath were you dressed as the same character each day? Which character(s) were you?
I was Kitty Bennet. I chose it because it was the closest to my actual name!
It's a total coincidence, but I just started _Persuasion_ yesterday.
As an aside, though, I need to ask if you have done a _What the Dickens_ for _The Mystery of Edwin Drood._ I'm seriously considering putting this on my TBR and I'd like to hear your input. Thank you in advance.
I have not - I have read The Mystery of Edwin Drood but not for 10 years. I'm due a reread. I highly recommend it though - it's FANTASTIC, but it's so very gutting that it isn't finished.
That's a lot of likes, Katie. The thing I find in reading Jane Austen, is that her language seems so wordy and old fashioned that it is really hard getting used to her style. Also in P and P, she seems so preoccupied with money and property, it kind of gets a bit much for an old Romantic like me.
Are there any retellings of pride and prejudice you could recommend?
Many! Some are here ua-cam.com/video/G20Co9qr6G0/v-deo.html . I'd also really recommend Pride by Ibi Zoboi, which is a modern retelling; I don't think I'd read that one when I made that video.
@@katiejlumsden thank you, much appreciated.
So I guess you're a fan of Jane Austen....having mentioned the phrase "Jane Austen" 122 times in your video...😂😂😂 (Don't ask me why I counted....I do have a life...really..!) Love to hear the passion in each video you do! Have a great JAJ!! 😊
Did you actually count and was it actually 122?! Amazing XD
Lol!!!
The other person in the comment section said 102!
Which one of you is right? 😂🤣
If I wasn't so lazy I'd count it myself just to find out 😂🤣 we should do a drinking game, it would be fun!! 😜💞
I just ran through Lady Susan. It's a quick read; obviously Jane Austen had some experience with narcissism. My feeling on completing the novella is that Lady Susan is a lot like Joan Crawford, complete with mistreated daughter.
You're very sweet, Katie Lumsy
Jane was a great writer but some of her social commentary cannot be taken at face value. In Persuasion, for example, she gives the impression that baronets were small fry on the fringe of high society but she must have known that was not the case. For a start, from time to time newspapers announced that daughters of baronets were marring dukes and earls etc and Jane must have sometimes read those announcements. In Mansfield Park she does not belittle baronets, but perhaps she had been irritated by a baronet by the time she put pen to paper with Persuasion.
I think the impression I always get in Persuasion is that Sir Walter Elliot is on the fringe, because of his behaviour and profligacy, rather than baronets in general.
@@katiejlumsden Hi. Sir Walter's stupidity and pomposity would undoubtedly alienate other members of high society. Nonetheless, over the years I have read comments by some English literature academics and other Jane Austen devotees who wrongly conclude that baronets in general are peripheral figures in upper class circles. Indeed, I once heard a professor say that baronets are middle class!!!! I am sure that the 13th Duke of Argyll would be astonished to hear that his maternal grandfather Sir Ivar Colquhoun was from a middle class background. Moreover, one of Argyll's relatives, the 9th Earl of Arran (another maternal grandson of a baronet) would no doubt feel the same way too.