#austen moms

[bethanydelleman]

Ranking Jane Austen heroines/women on how good of a mother they’d be?

As with the men, I think they would all be good mothers, though in different ways.

Elizabeth Bennet: Soccer mom, she wasn't given the opportunity to have a structured education herself, it will be different for her kids. She's hiring the best governess she can find (after Darcy does a full background check), she's encouraging her kids to do extracurriculars, they will speak six languages that she doesn't understand or else! Has a minor panic attack if she says anything that sounds even remotely like something either of her parents would say.

Jane Bennet: Gentle mom, she cannot imagine punishing her children, she just has a killer disappointed face (she is unaware of this). Encourages her children to always try to understand both sides of the story. Will eventually fall for a lie one of her children tells and be devastated when she figures out the truth.

Anne Elliot: Perfect mother, there is indeed no one so proper, so capable as Anne. She has also watched her sister do everything wrong and she knows exactly how to do it right.

Emma Woodhouse: Scatterbrained mom, makes a resolution to teach her daughter fancy work but then gets distracted and the sampler is left half finished. Promised to read with her son but they only make it halfway through the novel. Good thing she hired an excellent "Miss Taylor" to pick up the slack! And despite her occasional screw-ups, her kids love her to pieces. They just better be on guard when they hit 18 and she starts trying to marry them off.

Marianne Dashwood: Crunchy mom, or whatever the Regency period equivalent would be. She wants her kids to feel the dead leaves between their toes, she encourages them to write poetry and play moving ballads. Otherwise, a lot like her own mother (they have very similar personalities)

Elinor Dashwood: I-Say-I-Love-You-With-Food Mom, she may not be exactly emotionally available, but she orders her daughter's favourite meal when she's sad and there are tiny hearts in the stiches of her son's clothes. She makes sure her kids are provided for, educated, and healthy. When she asks if they are hungry, they know she's saying, "I love you."

Fanny Price: Nurturing mom, she will be everything for those children that Edmund and William were to her, but nothing like Sir Thomas, Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris or her own parents. She has a good deal of experience from nursing her own siblings so it's a pretty smooth beginning.

Catherine Morland: Overconfident mom, Catherine has been there and done that, she has six younger brothers and sisters after all, she's READY! This will be easy! All you have to do is make sure the baby is fed, washed, changed, and napped... oh... it's a lot harder to do this when you have only slept for 2.5 hours last night... (I know she would have servants, but still, being a new mother is tough!)

Bonus: Jane Fairfax tries to keep Frank from spoiling the kids, but it is literally impossible. He keeps buying them huge presents and then she would be the bad guy for saying no. Also, she knows that Frank lost their child in Kensington Gardens (twice), that's why she always insists he take a footman now.

Bonus bonus: Harriet Smith has a special box where she keeps all the 'treasures' her kids collect. It is her most precious possession.

[daisychainsandbowties]

super curious today about how people feel toward the names they might have been given. apparently i used to ask my mom about my “boy name” several times a week and get really sad i couldn’t have both my given name and that name. being trans this is hilarious to me now so wondering

also curious how this intersects with being trans!! i feel like my fixation with it definitely had a lot to do with that, so idk add in tags? if you feel like being trans makes you more/less curious about it

[linusbenjamin]

Lost | 2.09 'What Kate Did'

[poetryofmuses]

I love my mother, but I don't wanna be her.

[my-heart-of-heart]

Oh Jon Sims, if only I could bear to talk about your tragic arc and character development in small pieces perhaps I could express it more often, but alas I refuse to fragment your multitudes for the sake of brevity.

[everythingsbetterunderthestars]

Yes sorry I watched the bbc 1995 pride and prejudice with my mom tonight (for definitely more than the 7th time, we actually probably watch it once a year I’d guess) and I swear I will never not be insane about this

[queen-of-hearts-lemon-tarts]

Painting I just finished! it probably took me 3-4ish hours

Classics Bookshelf , me, acrylic on watercolor paper, August 2023

[mashmouths]

watching hugh bonneville call a man teste-less and then be concussed in georgian period clothing was delightful but oh my god was it not worth subjecting myself to amanda price

[liamlawsonlesbian]

finished my p&p reread and.....sometimes things are popular for a reason/sometimes things mocked for being feminine are good/etc

the way that darcy not only changes, but refuses to let lizzy excuse his past behavior......there's nothing better!!!

and the descriptions of post-wedding life are so fucking good. the gardiners, who darcy in his initial proposal scorned the idea of being related to, become some of their closest family!! jane and elizabeth get kitty out of that house! georgiana loves elizabeth like a sister! mr. bennet delights in showing up to netherfield unannounced! jane and bingley buy an estate nearby and they all raise their children together!!

there is no one like lizzy bennet, there was no one like jane austen

[bethanydelleman]

Married the wrong person, made the best of it:

Lady Elliot 🤝 Charlotte Lucas 🤝 Charles Musgrove

Married the wrong person, made the worst of it:

Maria Rushworth 🤝 Mr. Bennet 🤝 Mary Musgrove

[guinevereslancelot]

i'm taking a turn about the room (pacing and driving everyone else in the room insane)

[beautifulscreaminglady]

Hallmark is doing Sense and Sensibility with a majority Black cast.

Lady on the right's hair is just gorgeous!

[poetryofmuses]

go hug your mother right now and tell her that you love her!

[stripesysheaven]

kate’s real soulmate was claire tbh

[aldieb]

pros of extremely early flight: i cleaned, went grocery shopping, and did laundry so future me will have a very chill week

cons: i have to go to bed immediately bc the skull is coming for me (extreme self-flagellating abt letting down my family by not being marriageable bc now 2 couples i know have gotten engaged within a week)

[llycaons]

btw most of those jane austen fan books were pretty bad. like. a few were okay, and some were impressively faithful to the tone and phrasing of austen and everything but there's easily 20 recs on my list that are just better fanfiction in terms of writing quality and capturing the tone and spirit of canon. and they're not published like those books were, they're just out on the internet