Tag Archives: Jane Austen

Jane Austen and the institution of Marriage

Posted on October 5, 2019 by tkflor

“…I am not romantic, you know. I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins’s character, connections, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair as most … Continue reading →

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The Real Jane Austen???

Posted on March 14, 2017 by tkflor

“In the popular imagination, Jane Austen spent nearly all of her life sitting in a parsonage, working on her embroidery, gossiping about the neighbours and writing novels confined to ‘three or four families in a country village’.” From The Real … Continue reading →

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Who said it? Jude or Jane?

Posted on June 30, 2016 by tkflor

“Some people want to believe that the only difference between achievement and failure is luck. They like to sit on their couches and say that some sort of predetermined fate was why others made it and they didn’t. They never … Continue reading →

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Accomplished toddlers primed for success

Posted on April 24, 2015 by tkflor

“No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. It has been over two hundreds years since Miss Bingley made this snooty assertion, and yet her sentiments … Continue reading →

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Jane Austen’s birthday

Posted on December 15, 2014 by tkflor

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in rural Hampshire, England. She had little formal education, never traveled outside England, and never married. She published four novels – Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) … Continue reading →

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