Tag: Jane Austen

Completing Jane Austen’s Six

I read part of Pride and Prejudice in high school and it did nothing for me. I watched the BBC mini-series in my British Literature class and I thought, Okay, dancing, letter writing, guy bathing… entertaining enough, but not worth examining outside of class. Years later, during my last year of college, I finally decided ...

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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen

On this day, just 241 years ago, the woman who would bring us Mr. Darcy, lots of letters, happy love stories, and strolls through the countryside was born in Hampshire, England. When I first read Pride and Prejudice years ago, I was surprised to find a book written so long ago that I could pour through so ...