3 Responses to “Jane Austen”

1. SuN Says:
   July 11th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

   what is the book about??? seems interesting.. can buy from where and the price??? maybe can go grab one if ok..

2. SuN Says:
   July 12th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

   u go hip hop class???nv jio me..cos i want learn hip hop also…
   =(

   how is the lessons???

3. lorraine Says:
   July 24th, 2009 at 7:55 am

   jane austen is a very clever writer. She didn’t just write about love — many people during that time were doing it (Anne Radcliffe, Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, etc) but she wrote about it always keeping an eye on how it was constructed, and keeping in mind the gendered literary ethos of her time (or rather, critical of the literary ethos).

   fyi, the great w.h. auden wrote about jane austen:

   There is one other author in my pack:
   For some time I debated which to write to.
   Which would be least likely to send my letter back?
   But I decided I’d give a fright to
   Jane Austen if I wrote when I had no right to,
   and share in her contempt the dreadful fates
   Of Crawford, Musgrave, and Mr. Yates.
   You could not shock her more than she shocks me;
   Besides her Joyce seems innocent as grass.
   It makes me uncomfortable to see
   An English spinster of the middle class
   Describe the amorous effects of `brass’,
   Reveal so frankly and with such sobriety
   The economic basis of society.

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