#AND it has '95 mrs gardiner as elinor

[misscrawfords]

Jane Austen Takes

SUPER excited to be tagged by @itspileofgoodthings because giving my opinion on Jane Austen is literally my favourite thing to do on tumblr and I love any excuse!

As Maria said in hers, no particular order to these responses.

Five Favorite Heroines:

Elizabeth Bennet

Emma Woodhouse

Elinor Dashwood

Catherine Morland

Charlotte Heywood (book!)

Five Favorite Heroes:

Henry Tilney

Fitzwilliam Darcy

George Knightley

Frederick Wentworth

Colonel Brandon

Five Favorite Villains:

Henry Crawford (WHO GETS A BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION ARC IN MY UNWRITTEN SEQUEL)

Mr. Collins

Lady Catherine de Bourgh

John Thorpe

John Willoughby

Five Favorite Sidekicks:

Charles Bingley

John Knightley (IDK where else to put him but he’s my fave so)

Admiral & Mrs Croft

Elinor Tilney

Harriet Smith

Five Favorite Scenes:

Mr. Collins’ proposal - when I was 7 and my mum read me P&P for the first time, I had literally no idea what was going on with the romance plot but I adored this scene!

The episode with the ha-ha at Sotherton - I think it’s the closest Austen gets to being symbolic as the different characters react to crossing the ha-ha and opening the gate. Actually, all of Sotherton. The scene in the chapel is brilliant too.

Henry Tilney riffs an entire gothic novel to Catherine and she’s like “I don’t think this is true... OR IS IT?”

Emma and Mr. Knightley’s conversation after they get engaged and are tearing Frank’s letter apart together. It’s a rare opportunity to see the main couple together after they’ve got together.

Admiral & Mrs Croft driving around and being cheerful and normal and nice and being a healthy married couple and making fun of Sir Walter and his mirrors

Five Favorite Adaptations:

P&P 95

Northanger Abbey 07

Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Emma 09

Emma 20

Five Favorite Underrated Things:

Literally everything about my husband John Knightley

Mary Crawford moving her chair to sit by Fanny because Mrs. Norris is being so horrible saying that the fire is too hot

Mrs Gardiner cautioning Lizzy about her bitterness over Wickham -  “Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.” She sees through Elizabeth’s need to turn her own feelings into a joke as a defence mechanism. It’s a part of Lizzy’s character I very much identify with and so I feel very Seen in these conversations

The snarky authorial comment towards the end of Emma that suggests that Emma did not give up her matchmaking after all and set up Henry Knightley with Anna Weston... I might have based half my dissertation argument on it.

Henry Crawford reading Shakespeare brilliantly (actually, can I just say Mansfield Park???? Because that is the most seriously underrated thing about Austen, full stop.)

I tag: @janeite06 @lavellenchanted @otherpens @deardaaery @rosingspark @fradine and honestly anyone who wants to do this because it is a Quality Meme. :)

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