Upon reading all of the Jane Austen books, I found three Heroines that tied for my favorite. I had a favorite quote for each of them, and they are listed on the picture below.
Skyeler
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Farewell, Miss Austen!
It has been a most remarkable year! When we began this journey, I had no idea just how dear Jane Austen would become to all of us. We have read, watched, laughed, argued, and quoted more Jane Austen than I can possible count. What a joy it has been to be a part of the discussions about Miss Austen's works and watching the girls confidently expressing their opinions and thoughts. I am richer for this experience.
We met for our final Conversations with Jane meeting on a beautiful spring day. I thought we might change up our tea and instead had a Blueberry Lemonade. It was yummy paired with homemade donuts and my own version of a cucumber sandwich. A funny side note, I had made donuts unknowingly on National Donut Day :)
Our table setting, a little less formal than my china teacups
One last picture around the table
Our farewell meeting was all about favorites, final blog projects, and fun. We'll start with the fun first (since I have pictures). I found a Jane Austen Bingo game HERE and thought it would be a fun addition to our last meeting. We had a good time with it. I forgot to get markers for the bingo board so we had to improvise with foamie shapes. You can also see in the first and last picture that Skyeler and Victoria were still working around on their bonnets. Skyeler had almost finished hers when she realized that she was going to need to glue the flowers on with a glue gun instead of weaving them into the hat. Unless she wanted to be poked by the stems, that is. Victoria used what we learned about making shoe roses in March to make her own roses for her bonnet. They came out lovely.
The final blog projects were to be a culmination of the year's study. Something that included a little bit of everything we learned about over the year. We spent some time sharing their projects and remembering our favorite parts of the year.
Part of their work for the final meeting was to list their favorites.
*Their favorite Jane Austen quotes...one per book please. :) Oh, the groans that produced LOL! How to pick just one from the many they collected over the year!
*Their favorite books in order from most liked to least liked.
*Their favorite heroes/heroines in order from most liked to least liked. I did allow them to use more than one per book because there is more than one hero/heroine in some of the books
And that was the finale of Conversations with Jane. If you have been with us since the beginning, thank you. If you have happened across our site, take a moment to browse through our year. Very soon now the girls will be posting those final blog projects and favorites to the blog. We have enjoyed our time with Miss Austen, and though our study comes to a close our love of her works does not. This is not the end of The Austen Sisters, for there are still ball gowns to complete and a Regency Ball to attend and who knows what else Austenesque may cross our path. Farewell, Miss Austen, for now.
~Angel
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Victoria's Favorite Jane Austen Quotes
Here are my all-time favorite Jane Austen quotes (necessarily limited to one per novel in order to conserve internet space) :)
Emma
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
“...Elinor was the only one of the three, who seemed to consider the separation as anything short of eternal.”
Farewell Jane Austen, it has been a marvelous year!
-Victoria
Victoria's Favorite Jane Austen Novels, Heroines, and Heroes
In order of my preference, Jane Austen’s…
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Heroines
Miss Elizabeth Bennet
Miss Emma Woodhouse
Miss Elinor Dashwood
Miss Jane Bennet
Miss Anne Elliot
Miss Catherine Mooreland
Miss Fanny Price
Miss Marianne Dashwood
Heroes
Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy
Mr. George Knightly
Captain Frederick Wentworth
Mr. Henry Tilney
Mr. Edward Ferrars
Mr. Charles Bingley
Mr. Edmund Bertram
Colonel Christopher Brandon
Victoria's Final Blog Project
Throughout the year, as we were reading Jane Austen's novels, I found myself wondering about the time when Jane Austen was writing them. When did she write each book/in what order? How old was she when she wrote each one? How long did it take for them to get published?
Therefore, in order to satisfy my own curiosity and to cater to my visual brain, I created a timeline (on photoshop) that outlines the journey Jane Austen's novels took before their publication.
-Victoria
-Victoria
Friday, September 2, 2011
Calleigh's Pride and Prejudice Quotes
Here are some of my favourite lines from P&P, though not all. There are many funny, witty, and thoughtful lines I have not included, but these are some of the ones that stood out to me most.
~ Calleigh
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”
"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."
“Those who do not complain are never pitied."
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
Calleigh's Pride and Prejudice Blog Project.
Throughout Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice the estates and houses vary from person to person, station to station. A house can tell a lot about its occupants, and give us hints about their personalities.
Pemberley is Mr. Darcy’s home. Proud and stately, it echoes the man’s character. It is well decorated, handsome beyond belief, and filled with hidden treasures. It shows his extreme wealth, and while beautiful and extravagant in size, it is not overdone. Much like his house, Mr. Darcy is well dressed, astonishingly good looking, and often surprises people with his true nature, rather than what he commonly shows.
Netherfield Park is where Bingley spends most of the book. It is a beautiful house, with wonderful grounds. It is well furnished and grand, but still a home that allows “lesser” people to feel more comfortable than they would in a house as grand as Pemberley. Like his house, Bingley is well dressed, and shows his wealth, but it isn’t his focal point. And then of course Mr. Bingley is at ease with everyone he meets, and at all times the perfect gentlemen.
Longbourn is a well picked name for this house, as well as a play on words. It has long born every ridiculous act with silence. This trait is most personified in Mr. Bennet, the head of the house. Through most of his family’s scandals, escapades and adventures, he remains a silent bystander, more content in the realm of his book, than in his own house. But he is a gentlemen, and though the house is not luxurious, it is well kept and looked after, and not all together lacking in beauty.
Rosings Park. A grand estate to be sure, and the home of Lady Catherine De’bourgh. But although we are awed by the magnificence, we do not care about this manor as we care about Longbourn, Pemberley, or Netherfield, because we do not care about its occupants. Lady Catherine is a proud busy-body who sticks her nose into everyone’s business, and is too controlling for her own good. While her house is splendid, it holds no grandeur for us, as we are too focused on our dislike for its owner.
Last and quite possibly least, is Hunsford. It is a tidy house with beautiful gardens, several rooms, and let us not forget, shelves in the closet. Hunsford shows some of the eccentricities that its owners possess. It is well kept, and pretty, offering consolation and peace to Charlotte, and happiness to Mr. Collins at it being so close to Rosings Park. It shows Mr. Collins character in that it is very clean and well looked after, providing all the comforts he could desire.
Well do the houses and manors fit their characters. From grand mansions to beautiful cottages, all the houses of Pride and Prejudice are perfect for the people who inhabit them. From their character, to their sense of style, each house is thoroughly its own.
~ Calleigh
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