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firawren · 6 months

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Pride and Prejudice 1995 text posts, part 1 of ?

More: Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts | Northanger Abbey 2007 text posts | Emma. 2020 text posts

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homosandhomies · 1 month

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this is so siblingcore bc lizzy basically says to jane "you're so beautiful and amazing but you usually have SHIT taste in men except for this guy so ig i’ll give you permission to like him”

#pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #lizzy bennet #jane bennet #pride & prejudice #jane austen #summer says stuff

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itspileofgoodthings · 11 months

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one of my favorite things about pride and prejudice is that in the last third of the book Elizabeth’s internal monologue about Darcy is her admitting that she’s in love with him but also putting all sorts of qualifications around that statement that kind of ...tamp down the level of emotion (the “feelings, if not as tender as Jane’s for Bingley, at least as just” line, even the whole thing about her and Darcy being well-matched objectively speaking) and as soon as she’s engaged you get the unbridled joy in the narrative about her own joy, cc: “I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

#pride and prejudice #jane austen #this is very obvious but it's in the narration itself #that she's trying to sort of distance herself from the depths of her own feelings in case this DOESN'T work out #i also think the rational stuff is totally true and she would say that after as well but she would say it in a different way #idk i just love it. it's so subtle and it's so true #also very obvious?? i feel like i'm making a very obvious point #but anyway 'elizabeth's feelings soon rising to playfulness etc. etc.'#also this is why i hated the end of a civil contract actually #i felt like she was tamping it all down and for some reason it just made me SO mad #like no. it's supposed to OVERFLOW NOW #adam being like 'and in the end the rational choice was jenny' sir i will FIGHT YOU IN THE PARKING LOT #idk i was student teaching and very emotional at the time maybe i missed something and read it wrong #but my entire spirit REBELED #like. how honestly DARE #i'm avoiding grading can you tell #yes you can I will go now

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fawnilu · 2 years

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#persuasion #them🥺#jane austen #frederick wentworth #anne elliot #anne x frederick #art #doodle #my art #my stuff #You pierce my soul. I am half agony half hope...I have loved none but you.#sketch

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virtualdimensionsss · 2 months

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finally reading (listening) to p&p and im finally understanding why people like it so much

its actually so funny like. elizabeth being ✨in agonies✨ cos of her family being embarassing in public is like. damn girl me too. some things never change huh.

#pride and prejudice #jane austen #i tjink the audiobook has really done so much for me #ive tried the book so many times and i just couldnt digest the writing #but it makes a lot more sense to me read aloud #especially the dialogues n stuff #i tjink i read too fast to properly absorb whats shes saying

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duckprintspress · 4 months

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Calling All Artists!

In celebration of January 1st, 2024, and Public Domain Day, Duck Prints Press is thrilled to announce that we are doing open recruitment for artists to contribute to our next fanfiction and fanart anthology A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”!

Are you an Austenite? Do you love Regency romance but lament how, well, straight most of it is? Do you wish Mary Bennett found a partner? Are you positive Charlotte Lucas deserved better? Do you pity Miss de Bourgh? Do you dream of Darcy and Bingley OT3s? Well you are NOT ALONE! We at Duck Prints Press are right there with you, and we’re here to say: this is your moment to shine! We want your wlw pairings, your new happy endings, your P&P ot3s and ot4s, your “but what if they’re trans,” your queer art and fanart inspired by this beloved story! This story has such a lovely main and supporting cast, the possibilities for taking Pride and Prejudice and MAKING IT QUEER are endless!

This is the third in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… series, publishing legal fanfic and fanart inspired by popular works in the public domain. It builds on the success of our first two, And Seek (Not) to Alter Me (inspired by Much Ado About Nothing) and Aim For The Heart (inspired by The Three Musketeers). This is a paid arting opportunity; artists will be asked to complete one full-page (A4/210 mm x 297 mm), full-color piece, and we may have space for some artists to complete more than one page and/or short comics. Base pay is $50 per page, with the potential for raises up to $400 per page depending on our success during the eventual crowdfunding campaign.

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onthesamepageeee · 5 months

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#pride and prejudice #jane austen #books #books & libraries #booklr #book stuff #love #mr darcy #lizzie bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #elizabeth bennet #literature #literary quotes

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wellgoslowly · 5 months

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old quotes about love that i think lockwood associates with lucy because im obsessed with these fuckers

“and she tortures me, tortures me with her love. the past was nothing! in the past it was only those infernal curves of hers that tortured me, but now i’ve taken all her soul and through her i’ve become a man myself.” - fyodor dostoevsky

“i can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though i feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and i dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and i would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.” - kafka

“i love thee, i love thee with a love that shall not die. till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.” - william shakespeare

“how do i love thee? let me count the ways.” - elizabeth barrett browning

“i love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. i love you simply, without problems or pride: i love you in this way because i do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no i or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when i fall asleep your eyes close.” - pablo neruda

“if i had a flower for every time i thought of you… i could walk through my garden forever.” - alfred tennyson

“when we love, we always strive to become better than we are. when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” - paulo coelho

“in vain i have struggled. it will not do. my feelings will not be repressed. you must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love you.” -jane austen

“he’s more myself than i am. whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” - emily brontë

“every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. those who wish to sing always find a song. at the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” - plato

“doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt i love.” -william shakespeare

“i cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which had laid the foundation. it is too long ago. i was in the middle before i knew that i had begun.” -jane austen

“i loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” -charles dickens

“you are always new. the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. when you pass’d my window home yesterday, i was fill’d with as much admiration as if i had then seen you for the first time… even if you did not love me i could not help an entire devotion to you.” -john keats

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ghosts-of-northanger-abbey · 20 days

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Catherine Morland would have absolutely loved Tumblr, liking and reblogging about a million gifsets and metas per day and constantly falling in love with yet another ship and fandom!

#she is so relatable to me #the curiosity and daydreaming and reading and #not always distinguishing her fiction formed assumptions from reality #and how she lives to learn about people and the stuff they're into and esp what they're reading #she's sweeter and more agreeable and patient than i am but #who isn't?!#she deserves so much more love and shout to the post about how she's just naive and sheltered NOT dumb!#catherine morland #northanger abbey #jane austen #now if only i could find my #henry tilney

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ladamedusoif · 2 months

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Yes and SOME OF US (me) have been saying this for some time and have plenty of ideas that don’t involve Austen or a British setting so, y’know, I’m a historical gun for hire on this one.

I’m just feeling very validated that people are seeing my vision.

#we do not need more austen #or bridgerton esque stuff #the mid nineteenth century is where this look is rooted and it’s never depicted in adaptation beyond Les Mis #and we need more non-British set stories because things happened outside of there in this period #yes this is me demanding a Balzac or Zola adaptation for monsieur #the hill I will die on #this fucker as octave mouret in The Ladies Paradise???#come ON #okay rose calm down whoops #pedro pascal

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firawren · 9 months

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Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts

#sense and sensibility memes #sense and sensibility #sense and sensibility 1995 #jane austen memes #jane austen #english lit memes #text posts #marianne dashwood #elinor dashwood #colonel brandon #mr willoughby #lucy steele #my stuff #1k #2k #3k

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fake-elizabeth-bennet · 2 years

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Someone who loves you truly will always respect you. I was re-reading Pride and Prejudice and this is what occured to me.

Mr. Collins didn't love Lizzy and that's why didn't respect her decision of refusing his proposal. He kept on saying all kind of illogical things, trying to convince her to change her decision, wasn't at all discouraged by her and kept on pestering her to accept him.

He didn't give in to Lizzy's resolve to refuse him. He didn't consider her determined and wise enough to make the best decision for herself. He kept on mistaking her refusal for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female because he didn't hold Lizzy and her opinions in a position to be respected.

While Mr. Darcy, being truly in love with Lizzy, insulted her connections and status(he surely was very arrogant) but respected her decision of blatantly refusing him. He retrospected the events he was accused of and offered her an explanation but without pressuring her to change her mind. He again mentioned that one word from her would silence him on this subject forever. He believed her reasons for rejecting him and respected her decision.

He considered Lizzy's social status beneath himself but never doubted her intelligence or capability to make right decision for herself. He knew she was smart, accomplished and trusted her judgement. DARCY RESPECTS LIZZY.

WHO LOVES YOU, WILL ALWAYS RESPECT YOU.

Thank you so so much for coming to my half-witTED TALK.

P.S. - True P&P fans can romanticize every single event of the novel. :)

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fictionadventurer · 3 months

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...Is Persuasion home-front fiction?

Obviously there's not a war happening just then, but you still get a story taking place in a vast world with all sorts of exciting things happening, but we focus on the people living small domestic lives far away from all that.

#persuasion #jane austen #i keep thinking about that cinderella retelling #getting pretty excited about how things are developing #but then it hit me that i have this vast world of flying sailing ships and explorers and daring pilots #but the story is all about a character who's left behind in ordinary life away from all that #so like isn't that a waste of a world?#on the one hand maybe #but on the other hand the austen type of stories i'm drawing from already *are* this #(and my mc does get a bit of adventure)#(and has been shaped by experience in the more exciting elements of that world)#(plus there's nothing wrong with focusing on how all the changes brought about by the exciting explorers and airships stuff)#(affects the culture of ordinary life)#adventures in writing

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anghraine · 2 years

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“What a delightful library you have at Pemberley, Mr Darcy!”

“It ought to be good,” he replied, “it has been the work of many generations.”

“And then you have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying books.”

“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”

This conversation is intriguing because, as is often the case in P&P, there is so little narrative framing or comment that you have to make quite a few assumptions based on how you read the characters. We don’t even hear Elizabeth’s reaction to this interchange and don’t know how she takes it (though when Darcy later tries to talk to her about books, she’s sure that their tastes are so wildly different that they won’t have anything to talk about).

In any case, both fans and critics have come away with a lot of different interpretations of Darcy’s book-buying sprees and, in particular, what he means by “such days as these.”

I just read an article that dismissively characterized it as a stuffy civilization-is-falling-down-around-us-in-these-degenerate-times thing showing the basic conservatism of his mindset, and while that article was particularly hostile, it’s a pretty common reading. And you can read it that way, but frankly, it doesn’t seem the most natural reading in the context of either the scene or his overall characterization.

Darcy is repeatedly associated with books and reading and general intellectualism. The Pemberley library links his family pride and his sense of legacy with his personal inclinations—as an individual, he’s bookish, clever, and fairly cerebral. He reads, he buys new books, he enjoys philosophical debates, his response to Elizabeth’s assertion of their different tastes in books is “cool, then we can argue about them :D”, he encourages his teenage sister’s artistic interests and defends her disciplined approach to them when she’s not even there, he collects fine and apparently borderline-incomprehensible paintings, he’s dismissive about the expected accomplishments of upper-class women in favor of reading (partly bc Elizabeth has been reading, but it’s not surprising that a man responsible from age 23 for the education of a young girl has Thoughts on the ongoing female education debates of the time).

All of this is to say that Darcy is engaged with what was then contemporary culture and discourse. This is especially the case if you go with the time of his creation, 1796, but it doesn’t make a huge difference because these debates were still ongoing in the 1810s, and he rarely refers to specific figures and instead prefers more generally familiar concepts and arguments (or chooses to rely on those in conversation with women), and in any case, the English artistic movements of the 1810s owed a lot to those of the late eighteenth century.

And a big eighteenth-century debate was about the merits of modern art, especially literature, compared to ancient art. Historically, there was a lot of deference in English literature to ancient models and dictates, and controversy over newer forms like the novel (in English) but also in poetry and drama and essays. To some people, it seemed like art was going horribly astray by diverging from the ancients (despite the continuing strong influence of Classicism). Others thought the artistic movements of the time were fucking awesome valuable and important, which is generally Austen’s position (most famously in the defense of the novel in NA).

So when Darcy speaks of “such days as these,” I don’t think this is coming from snooty disengagement from the current literary zeitgeist, but rather, the reverse. He’s seeing all these ideas being hotly debated in various essays and treatises, and the English novel taking modern form, and poetry undergoing changes that will only become more drastic, etc etc, and thinks—this is important. Anybody with a family library should be adding the literature that’s coming out at this time.

TL;DR I think Darcy has an affinity for modern art/literature/culture in any case, but also, is so convinced of the importance of the literary “moment” he’s living in that he thinks he’d basically be shaming his ancestors if he didn’t include it in the collection that he’ll pass down to the next generation as it was passed to him.

#it's not just that people like him need to maintain family libraries with what's currently out there #but that he thinks that what's happening /right now/ is a really big deal that needs to be added for its own sake #i find it a bit weird that this reading seems unusual but some people are very committed to stuffy conservative darcy so #i do go with the c. 1796 setting which makes this fairly funny... lyrical ballads is coming out in two years #and darcy can't know that! it's just. something is going on! clearly! what is the point of being rich if you don't preserve this stuff???#anghraine babbles #austen blogging #austen fanwank #lady anne blogging #anghraine's meta #fitzwilliam darcy #pride and prejudice #jane austen #tangentially: this is kind of associated in my head with how the preceding darcy-like characters are pretty much all 18th century #elizabeth has this whole beatrice/rosalind legacy and the debt to much ado about nothing is obvious #but darcy isn't like benedick. he's like... lord orville if he were interesting.#so he's a fairly distinctly /modern/ man in the original context where he's often now seen as a quintessential/old-fashioned figure #and it makes sense that he would have a lot of affinity with modern culture where elizabeth is more detached

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bethanydelleman · 1 year

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Mr. Bingley is not Weak

A lot of people kind of hate Bingley, which I have discovered much to my surprise. I think Bingley has also suffered from the adaptations which, especially 2005, have made him into something of a himbo. But we are told Bingley is at least average intelligence: In understanding, Darcy was the superior. Bingley was by no means deficient; but Darcy was clever. (Ch 4)

Bingley is modest (a positive trait), but he is not weak. Darcy says this in his letter:

We accordingly went—and there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice. I described and enforced them earnestly. But however this remonstrance might have staggered or delayed his determination, I do not suppose that it would ultimately have prevented the marriage,

Pause here, Bingley does not care about all the reasons which have kept Darcy himself from acting on his admiration of a Bennet sister. This form of attack was useless, which means Bingley is not easily influenced by his friend...

had it not been seconded by the assurance, which I hesitated not in giving, of your sister’s indifference. He had before believed her to return his affection with sincere, if not with equal, regard. But Bingley has great natural modesty, with a stronger dependence on my judgment than on his own. To convince him, therefore, that he had deceived himself was no very difficult point. To persuade him against returning into Hertfordshire, when that conviction had been given, was scarcely the work of a moment.

The social context here is important, Bingley cannot ask if Jane likes him. You flirt and then you propose. That’s it. Bingley can only decide this from how Jane acts and he is modest. When he's told that Jane doesn't actually love him, he is humble enough to believe that it's possible.

Also, we know Jane is reserved, so Bingley not being entirely sure of her feelings is very possible and not a fault on either side. Jane is doing what she thinks is morally right, instead of flirting openly like Caroline with Darcy. A moral conduct book from the time would uphold Jane as an ideal.

Again, Bingley doesn't just do whatever his Caroline or Darcy say. Caroline can't convince Bingley to cancel the ball and Darcy's early dislike of the Bennets doesn't change Charles's opinion of them. I am pretty certain that Caroline alone could have done very little to make Charles forget Jane, it was only Darcy's report that he took seriously.

Why hate Bingley for this? It's refreshing! Darcy is the opposite of modest, he is so convinced that Elizabeth loves him even though she doesn't. His proposal is supremely arrogant. He expresses no real fear that he will be refused: As he said this she could easily see that he had no doubt of a favourable answer. He spoke of apprehension and anxiety, but his countenance expressed real security. Mr. Collins is also disgustingly self-assured. I would take Bingley’s modesty over either Collins or Darcy #1 any day of the week.

I think the Jane and Bingley relationship is meant to show the flaws in the conduct rules of the time, not flaws in the characters themselves. Jane acts properly, not like a coquette, and still suffers for it. Bingley is fairly sure of Jane’s genuine affection, but is convinced away from her because she doesn’t act like one would expect from a woman in love. They would have gotten along charmingly on their own, it was the world that was against them.

#bingley #Charles Bingley #pride and prejudice #jane austen #probably too much blogging today #and I've even been holding back #putting stuff in the queue and whatnot #whatever this needs to be out #jane bennet #mr. darcy

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kaleb-is-definitely-sane · 1 month

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Somebody's gotta fix the #Jane Austen tag. I don't need my eyes flooded by naked women everytime i search up one of the worlds greatest authors

#jane austen #northanger abbey #pride and prejudice #mansfield park #austen #dark academia #romantic academia #dark academia books #dark academia literature #light academia #spam bots #tumblr stuff #tumblr bots #bots

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