Jane Austen's Profound Conservatism

https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 18th July, 2023, American time | Ozguy1945

[Ozguy1945]

Jane Austen, who died at 41 years of age on the 18th of July, 1817, might be one of the most conservative writers ever.

"Sense and Sensibility" (published in 1811) is set in the 1790's in southern England, while the Reign Of Terror gripped France and while Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee became states in America. A quote:

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” (Sense And Sensibility)

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” (Persuasion, published posthumously in 1818)

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ” (Emma)

Magnificent thoughts about what we human beings are.

Jane Austen

[BipolarBob]

One of the greatest female writers of fiction. I hated P&P in HS but I’m fine with it now.

[Red Badger]

Ping!.............

[jimfree]

Mrs jimfree (Dr. Ann Wass) is a Federal/Regency period scholar and has written on Jane Austen and spoken at Austen events.

I am reading P&P, only during air travel (from my phone) so it can take months or longer. I did Northanger Abbey the same way.

[jerod]

Pretty much everybody was considered ‘conservative’ in the latter part of the 18th century... So Jane Austin merely reflected the era she lived in.