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[curiousb]

The Tilney Family Album: Volume XXIII

It's high summer in Sanditon, and the weekend is here.

While her mum is out at work, energetic Dinah decides to help out in the garden.

Hmm, I think she overdid the sun exposure a bit!

With dad also working today, big sister Dora is on hand, to take charge of the little ones.

But it's also hobby day for the two oldest Tilney kids! (I'm trying to get into the habit of putting objects related to Sim kids' interests in their rooms. The Tilneys don't have a lot of spare cash for décor though.)

Home from work, Georgiana decides it's harvest time! There's certainly a plentiful crop from the orange tree, but the quality could be better - better luck next year, maybe?

The littlest Tilney - Fabian - is also ageing up today, and grandma Charlotte drops in to congratulate the birthday boy.

There he goes! And looking a lot like his uncle Bennet at the same age.

~ Capricorn 8 / 8 / 6 / 5 / 9

~ Friendly / Perfectionist / Green Thumb (perhaps he'll be able to work some magic on the family fruit trees next year)

~ OTH: Tinkering

~Favourite Colour(s): Blue

[firawren]

Ron Swanson as Jane Austen characters

I did Leslie Knope as Austen heroines, and @obscurelittlebird did Craig Middlebrooks as P&P characters, so let's keep the Parks and Rec crossover going with Ron Swanson as Austen men!

Mr. Bennet:

Mr. Darcy:

Colonel Brandon:

Mr. Bingley:

Captain Wentworth:

Mr. Tilney:

Mr. Knightley:

[bethanydelleman]

Could you rank the Austen main couples from the least to the most likely to have sex before they are married?

Least to Most Likely:

Edmund Bertram & Fanny Price: It is all very proper. They probably have sex with their clothes on after the wedding.

Fitzwilliam Darcy & Elizabeth Bennet: She would have been down, he wasn't. He later congratulates himself on his excellent self control.

Edward Ferrars & Elinor Dashwood: There were definitely smooches, but after that roller coaster of a courtship, Elinor wants things legal and in writing. Also, just because something feels good doesn't make it right, MARIANNE.

Henry Tilney & Catherine Morland: he is a gentleman, but it was really the long distance relationship that prevented them from doing anything. Was there some racy content in those letters? I'd love to know...

George Knightley & Emma Woodhouse: Donwell is right there. You can walk right over...

Charles Bingley & Jane Bennet: "Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane" I see your intentions, sir. I see them!

Colonel Brandon & Marianne Dashwood: "I have feelings," said she, "let's indulge them." If something feels good, that makes it moral, right? Romanticism says yes, ELINOR.

Captain Frederick Wentworth & Anne Elliot: Do not care about anything except getting married as quickly as possible. Banns take far too long when you've been waiting 8 years and Napoleon just escaped from Elba. Let's get this DONE.

BONUS:

Lucy Steele & Robert/Edward Ferrars: No way in hell with either of them. She's too cunning to give up her best card before she has the man secure.

Frank Chuchill & Jane Fairfax: Not in a million years, no matter how many times Frank makes puppy eyes.

Robert Martin & Harriet Smith: Abbey Mill farm is like, right there. You can walk over. It has a hay barn...

Related: First Kiss for each Austen Heroine Couple

Also, marriage and birth records show that premarital sex was pretty common. Or else the Regency era had magically good premature baby care 😉

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[bennetsbonnet]

Another day, another major media outlet feeding into the general public's misunderstanding of Mr Darcy's character. Today it's this beaut from Sky News:

*Deep sigh* ... I'm tired.

To start with, the question posed beneath the headline is ridiculous. The short answer to wondering whether younger readers would only pick up Pride and Prejudice if it had a 'sexier rewrite' is no. The long answer is HELL NO. The longest answer, I do not currently possess the energy to construct... but, in short: so much of the enduring, cross-generation appeal of the story is the repressed emotions and those consequent moments when characters are pushed to their limits and forced to express them. The novel is not inherently lacking because Jane Austen couldn't write about such a subject; even if she could, sex really isn't a chief concern of the story, nor what makes it appealing.

Pride and Prejudice is a comedy of manners.

It is not a romance. There are romantic elements, yes, but above all, it is a deeply funny book packed with far more witty than romantic dialogue.

Anyway, back to the article. The headline is a quote taken from an interview with an author who, I assume, shoved Jane Austen into their title in order to shift a few more copies:

Nichi Hodgson - whose book The Curious History Of Dating: From Jane Austen To Tinder compares Regency romance to now - understands how the "rituals of the era" can sometimes be "a stumbling block for people that want to read the stories". "But if you do read the books it really is about the emotions and characters," she insists. "Mr Darcy… at the beginning, he's kind of a bad lad. The key tenants of the connection… wanting to kiss all night, you know, that's still appealing to people."

Bad lad. BAD LAD?! Clunky phrasing aside, who on earth are you describing?! because it certainly isn't Mr Darcy...

Mr Darcy is not 'bad,' not even at the beginning. He is rude, proud and arrogant; yes, he is thought of as the 'proudest, most disagreeable man in the world,' by those gathered at the Meryton assembly, but that is a biased description of him (which he absolutely deserves) based on the opinion of the people he has just met and immediately offended.

But he is not bad. Jane Austen would never have made such a man one of her heroes. Such men exist in her novels, of course, with Wickham as the example in Pride and Prejudice... but he is depicted as being unworthy of our heroine (and instead ends up with her most ill-mannered sister under far from proper circumstances).

In fact, a large part of Mr Darcy's appeal is that he is everything Wickham is not. He never alters in fundamentals, he is shown to have always been a thoroughly decent man, just one who—thanks to his pride—never gave a good account of himself and consequently prejudiced people against him.

How do we know that our hero is good and this kindness is what makes our heroine fall for him?

Well, perhaps the greatest turning point in Elizabeth's sentiment stowards Mr Darcy—aside from his letter—is when she hears the housekeeper's testimony of him at Pemberley in Chapter 43:

[Mrs Reynolds] dwelt with energy on [Mr Darcy's] many merits as they proceeded together up the great staircase. 'He is the best landlord, and the best master,' said she, 'that ever lived; not like the wild young men nowadays, who think of nothing but themselves. There is not one of his tenants or servants but will give him a good name. Some people call him proud; but I am sure I never saw anything of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.' 'In what an amiable light does this place him!' thought Elizabeth.

And, upon seeing the portrait of Mr Darcy, Mrs Reynolds's words allow Elizabeth to finally view Mr Darcy in an objective manner and she realises that she has been too hasty in judging him so harshly:

The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs. Reynolds was of no trifling nature. What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people’s happiness were in his guardianship!—how much of pleasure or pain was it in his power to bestow!—how much of good or evil must be done by him! Every idea that had been brought forward by the housekeeper was favourable to his character, and as she stood before the canvas on which he was represented, and fixed his eyes upon herself, she thought of his regard with a deeper sentiment of gratitude than it had ever raised before; she remembered its warmth, and softened its impropriety of expression.

What a brute!! Doesn't Mr Darcy just sound like the worst man on earth?! But I guess Elizabeth liked a bad boy after all... that's why she was so repulsed by Wickham! He was clearly the morally superior character...🙄

Suffice to say, I will not be checking out that book. All this article really did—apart from irritate me immensely on a Sunday morning—was show me that there might be an interpretation of Mr Darcy that I loathe even more than 'he was just shy/anxious🥺!!'

I'll end with this quote from Elizabeth describing, to her father, the 'bad lad' she has fallen for:

'I do, I do like him,' she replied, with tears in her eyes, 'I love him. Indeed he has no improper pride. He is perfectly amiable. You do not know what he really is; then pray do not pain me by speaking of him in such terms.'

[vintageseawitch]

i feel like Lizzie & Mr Tilney would crack each other up with their mutual witticisms & make Catherine blush but find some amusement meanwhile Darcy would have to move heaven & earth not to groan out loud & roll his eyes every five minutes

[atinycelery]

We're obsessed with only child, middle child, eldest child aesthetics so let's list them in terms of ✨The Ships ✨

1. Kaz Brekker and Inej Ghafa

Youngest child - only child

2. Anthony Lockwood and Lucy Carlyle

Youngest child - youngest child

3. Darlington - Galaxy Stern

Only child - only child

4. Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson

Only child - only child-ish

(i mean it took him abt a decade before having a younger sibling so does that count? Not sure.)

5. Jude Duarte and Cardan Greenbriar

Middle child - youngest child

6. Suren "Wren" - Oak Greenbriar

Eldest child (ish?) / Only child - youngest child

Does it count when you've been separated for ages but you did kinda spend a few years with the unsister and you still care abt them a lot? Idk either

7. Henry Tilney - Catherine Morland

Middle child - middle child

8. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy

Middle child - eldest child

9. Harriet Smith and Robert Martin

Only child - eldest child

10. George Knightley - Emma Woodhouse

Eldest child - youngest child

11. Anne Elliot - Capt Frederick Wentworth

Middle child - middle child

Okay that's it for the books ships.

Interesting when you look at their dynamics from the perspective of which child they are in the family, and it also makes sense how they act

Also interesting that Miss Austen said, justice to the middle childs let them have their own stories!! Love it xD

After listing down the Austen ships I can't wait to do one with my fave dramas and shows because my brain immediately went to Edith Crawley, my favourite middle child

But ah well for me, anyway, the science of which child you are is probably as reliable as the meyers-briggs test which I'm not sure is that reliable but still fun to discuss and think abt anyway!

Edit : as the youngest child, I do acknowledge and claim these sillies

[hotjaneaustenmenpoll]

Propaganda...

Mr Bennet (DCTP): ...

General Tilney (2007): He brings a kind of vampiric energy to the party that's so convincing you think he's killed his wife.  Muttonchops that will drive you wild!  Also he owns an abbey extremely hot

[curiousb]

The Crawford Family Album: Volume XVII

On to a family that I suspect might be a favourite for some - the Crawfords.

Oldest girl Estella is quite grown up these days.

~ Gemini 7 / 7 / 4 / 9 / 8

~ Excitable / Over-Emotional / Bot-Fan

~ OTH: Cuisine

~ Favourite Colour(s): Yellow / Turquoise

She would like her grandfather Henry to know that she's definitely his best grandchild!

She's completely adorable...

...and charming...

...and terrific with her younger siblings. What more could any grandparent want?

The family has also recently celebrated Octavius's first birthday.

~ Gemini 0 / 6 / 6 / 6 / 9

~ Born Performer / Loves the Outdoors

~ OTH: Music & Dance

He's an absolute cutie too!

We mustn't neglect the grown-ups though. It was finally time to grant Frances and Green Bean's longstanding wish, to get married.

It just had to be a beach wedding, taking advantage of the fine autumn weather.

There was a lively gathering of family and friends after the ceremony.

But there are still potties to be emptied, even if you are in your wedding dress.

Wedding guest Bennet kindly took charge of vermin control though.

And then there's Lydia. This is just SO her.

[firawren]

The ultimate Austen duo showdown

I did polls for Austen's best sibling duo, best brOTP, and best inanimate brOTP. Now, it's time to find out which among the three of these winning duos is the most iconic, the most perfect together, the best of the best, the Ultimate Austen Duo.

Once again, please vote based on books, not movies/series.

[storieschats]

Because the Internet Needs Another Jane Austen Ranking (It Doesn’t)

And yet here it is.

So I read all the Jane Austen complete novels (I will in the future be going into her juvenilia and other writings) and I will attempt to do what few have dared-rank them.

Now this is incredibly hard because I can’t even comprehend how someone writes that many amazing books and I go back and forth in my ranking all the time.

Still I will attempt do it and brace myself for the screams that may be heard by people when I put their favourites very low on the list (I really liked every single one of these so if your favourite is my last I still get it ok don’t put a bomb in my mailbox!).

Emma – I know I’m a stereotype. Emma is everyone’s and their aunt’s favourite Jane Austen novel... but there is a reason for that! And that reason is Emma herself, the rich pretty young daughter of the most well off gentleman in her area, she is an amazing character! She is nosy, arrogant and loves putting herself into other people’s business in very dramatic ways. We follow her as she attempts to match make the people around her. The book doesn’t shy away from showing both Emma and the reader how her behaviour negatively affects other people and by allowing a flawed character the space to actually be flawed it allows us to root for her and hope she finds a way to get out of the messes she puts herself into. The romance isn’t anything to write home about, and I wouldn’t suggest this as a starting point for Jane Austen novices. But everything else? Perfect.

Lady Susan – I know, I know, I can hear the screams from here. Lady Susan perhaps for her late publication date, perhaps for the fact that is written in epistolary form is not a very well-known or liked Jane Austen novel but I just loved this book so much! We follow evil Lady Susan who enjoys seducing gentlemen and mistreats her sweet only daughter. Lady Susan is chaotic, irredeemable, and endlessly fascinating. Watching her manipulate and mistreat those around her—while flaunting every societal rule—is an incredible ride. Seeing the perspective of what was considered a “seductress”, written by an actual 19th-century woman is fascinating to me. People don’t love the ending, but honestly, I think it’s the best part. So if you also enjoy watching someone wreak havoc for 100 glorious pages, come join me on the dark side.

Pride and Prejudice – If you’ve never read Jane Austen, start with Pride and Prejudice. It’s the happiest and most wish-fulfilling of all her novels, and its popularity is well deserved. We go along with Elizabeth Bennet, the oldest of five daughters, who will be left destitute after their father dies and a distant cousin inherits their house and properties. She meets a rich broody guy and well, you know how that story goes (although you only know how that story goes because of this book). It still has all the dry humour and social commentary that Austen is famous for but it is slightly muted. The romance is as good as it gets in Austen’s works, and Elizabeth Bennet is a fantastic protagonist.

Northanger Abbey – I absolutely loved Northanger Abbey! Honestly, if we’re ranking by pure enjoyment alone, this one might top the list. Our protagonist is Catherine Morlad who is seventeen years old, very naive, very kind hearted and also a fervent reader of gothic novels. This whole book is basically a parody of the gothic genre. We watch as Catherine, newly entering society as a woman, befriends two siblings who invite her to spend a while with them in their ancient home called Northanger Abbey with their scary father. Her imagination runs wild and we have a fun time! Catherine who considers herself in “training to become a heroine” is very fun to read and I have to shootout Henry Tilney, who is the only one of all Austen’s love interest that Regency-era me would actually have a crush on.

Persuasion – Anne Eliot is 27 years old and on the brink of spinsterhood. She was once engaged and in love but as he was poor and of no consequence she was persuaded to give him up. Years later, they come across again and it turns out he is now rich and important. So... problems all around. Look the romance is great, the letter is amazing and the only reason this one is so low is that Anne Eliot doesn’t draw me in, she’s a bit... dull. There, I said it. I know she is some people’s favourite Austen heroine but she never got to me. That being said Persuasion is still a great book.

Mansfield Park – The social commentary is great, the romance is dreadful, the main character is there. More needs to be said? I think it does, so let me introduce you to Fanny Price, Jane Austen’s most controversial protagonist. Fanny Price is sent from her impoverish family to live with her rich relatives when she is only ten years old. She is mistreated by them, and as a consequence, develops as a shy girl terrified of causing trouble or offense. When her uncle goes away, she and her four cousins (two boys, two girls) are left alone, along with their laudanum-addicted aunt, who couldn’t care less what anyone is doing, and the whole thing explodes into chaos. A friend from university comes to stay, the two problematic neighbours sibling duo come every day for shenanigans and basically everyone is going around behaving very morally wrong (for 19th century Britain) and having crushes on everyone else. Except Fanny who remains committed to her morals and principles, even with her people pleasing instincts.  I think of all Jane Austen novels this is the one that has aged the worst. You do have to keep reminding yourself that this is the 19th century but gosh Fanny's prudish behaviour annoys me so much.

Sense and Sensibility – After their father’s death, Elinor Dashwood, her two sisters Marianne and Margaret, and their mother are left destitute and dependent on their half-brother’s charity. I found the social commentary on the situation of the sisters due to the bad behaviour of their brother (who helps nothing as he is too worried with his wife and son and frankly with himself) appropriate. But the main point of this novel is restraint and self-denial. Basically saying we shouldn’t act on impulse even if we are young and madly in love. Elinor is sense, Marianne is sensibility the whole thing goes how it goes. I found both the romance and indeed the characters not noteworthy and though it was a great piece of writing with some interesting and well expressed ideas and not much more. I know however that this one has fervent admirers so I would love to hear it.

It’s obvious that my preference for main characters with a bit of spunk and chaos heavily influenced this ranking. But hey, that’s the fun part!

If you’ve made it this far props to you. I clearly can’t write a short post to save my life. Let me know how wrong I am—and share your own rankings!

[jomarchswritingjacket]

happy (almost) valentine’s day

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Emma is Austen’s best novel

Pride & Prejudice contains Austen’s best romance

Northanger Abbey is my favorite out of Austen’s novels

[discoverboleyn]

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