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Pride and Prejudice
Caroline Bingley gets remembered as Pride and Prejudice's villain. The text tells a sharper story, and it's the same speech that inspired the Accomplished Young Lady game on this site.
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Jane Austen
What a governess actually taught, where she stood in the household, what she was paid, and why Austen wrote her into Emma and Sanditon with such dread.
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Persuasion
BBC just announced a Persuasion spin-off in the vein of The Other Bennet Sister. Here's what's actually confirmed, and who Elizabeth Elliot and Mary Musgrove really are in Austen's novel.
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Persuasion
Persuasion's funniest character is a hypochondriac obsessed with precedence. Here's how being the overlooked third Elliot daughter explains her whole personality.
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Film Adaptations
Nobody involved in The Parent Trap has ever cited Jane Austen as an influence. A close read of the film's structure, the timing, the false suitor, the injury scene, says otherwise.
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Film Adaptations
Everyone maps Mr. Hall and Miss Geist onto Mr. Weston and Miss Taylor. Look at what each character actually does, and a different pairing makes a stronger case.
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Film Adaptations
Mr. and Mrs. Hurst never raise their voice in Pride and Prejudice, and the 2005 film quietly wrote them out of it. Here is what that costs the story's social satire.
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Pride and Prejudice
Grimstock, Mr. Beveridge's Maggot, Shrewsbury Lasses, and the Tythe Pig are all real Regency dance tunes. Here's their actual history, and which Pride and Prejudice adaptation used each one first.
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