The Jane Austen At Home Book Tag

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In which I talk (in-depth...at length...with deep feeling) about a stack of books I've related to different homes in the works of Jane Austen.
The Jane Austen At Home Tag
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Prompts:
1. Mansfield Park: “The grandeur of the house astonished, but could not console her.” - Name a grand book (that may or may not have been difficult to read!)
2. Barton Cottage (Sense & Sensibility): “In comparison of Norland, it was poor and small indeed!” Name a book about a household in difficult circumstances.
3. Hartfield (Emma): “I believe few married women are half as much mistress of their husband’s house as I am of Hartfield.” - Name a book that you feel entirely the mistress (or master) of.
4. Fullerton (Northanger Abbey): “Now, there was nothing so charming to her imagination as the unpretending comfort of a well-connected parsonage, something like Fullerton.” Name a book containing a contented family.
5. Rosings Park (Pride & Prejudice): “He declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification.” Name a book that other books are constantly being compared to.
6. HMS Sloop the Asp (Persuasion): “Quite worn out and broken up. I was the last man who commanded her.” Show us a book that is looking the worse for wear.
7. Northanger Abbey: “An abbey! Yes, it was delightful to be really in an abbey! But she doubted, as she looked round the room, whether anything within her observation would have given her the consciousness.” Name a book that wasn’t as creepy or dramatic as you thought it would be.
8. Portsmouth (Mansfield Park): “The smallness of the house and thinness of the walls brought everything so close to her, that, added to the fatigue of her journey, and all her recent agitation, she hardly knew how to bear it.” Name a book that disappointed you when you revisited it. Remember Me?
9. Kellynch Hall (Persuasion): “Principal seat: Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset.” Name a book from your “ancestral home.”
10. Pemberley (Pride & Prejudice): “They had now entered a beautiful walk by the side of the water, and every step was bringing forward a nobler fall of ground.” Name a book that you are ready to dive into.
Bonus question: Which of these households would you most like to live in?

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@Kosalsom Ай бұрын

thank for sharing, i will try read more as you

@Lisa-vb3gn Ай бұрын

I enjoyed your video! I loved your description of the different books except for Jane Eyre. I hate how when she finally gets away from all of the nonsense of people controlling her, she’s free and instead of enjoying her life that she has made-she goes back to an old man who has manipulated her, lied to her, and becomes a servant to him. She’s had all of these terrible things happen throughout her life and finds a way out and then she chooses to go back to the older, manipulative man. The fact that she chooses this kills me every time I read the book. He’s a messed up person, but she chooses him. Blergghhhh. She doesn’t have to do the missionary bit. I realize that times were different back then and women didn’t have options. But how messed up to be a servant to a man who has played you.

@Bookslovejenna Ай бұрын

@@Lisa-vb3gn Ah…but that is not at all what Charlotte wrote. That is a lens you are applying to the text. Largely any imagery associated with feeling bound or in service to is applied to Rochester despite the fact that for 1/3 or the book Jane is ACTUALLY in service as the governess. In addition, the imagery associated with Jane is that of independent freedom and the pursuit of happiness/joy/bliss. It’s made clear that she loves him and freely chooses to marry him. Marriage - at least to Jane - is an expression of her equality with Edward. Edward expresses that Jane is his deepest wish fulfilled. He treasures her. He puts her a pedestal (which she jumps off of real quick..she doesn’t want to be superior or worshipped. She wants to be loved and to love equally.) And that is what Charlotte wrote. That is the trajectory of their romance from the meet cute (horse bucking Edward off on the road as Jane appears out of nowhere) to the happy family at the end. To try and rewrite Jane as some kind enslaved and disempowered unwilling participant in this story takes some serious smoke, mirrors, and blinders. Here are some quotes that guide me through how I read the text. I’ve got a lot more if needed. They are arranged first with Jane’s perspective and then Edward’s. They cover all the chapters that chronical their relationship from meeting to the HAPPY conclusion. :) "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me." ~Jane Eyre to Edward Rochester "I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; -- it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, - as we are!” ~Jane Eyre to Edward Rochester “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.” ~Jane to readers "I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest-blest beyond what language can express." ~Jane to readers "All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever." ~ Jane to Edward "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you--especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.” ~Edward Rochester to Jane Eyre "Her coming was my hope each day,/ Her parting was my pain;/ The chance that did her steps delay/ Was ice in every vein." ~Edward Rochester sings this to Jane Eyre "I have for the first time found what I can truly love-I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment." ~Edward Rochester to Jane Eyre "I am not an angel … and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.” ~ Jane to Edward Rochester "I have little left in myself-I must have you. The world may laugh-may call me absurd, selfish-but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame." ~ Edward to Jane “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.” ~Edward Rochester to Jane Eyre

@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk Ай бұрын

@@Bookslovejenna Thats a great long answer. Best wishes.

@Bookslovejenna Ай бұрын

@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk I’ll defend Jane Eyre with all my words until the end of time. 😂I was actually holding back here. So much more I could say.

@HannahsBooks Ай бұрын

This is great! I had not thought about this tag in a while. I absolutely adored A Town like Alice when I read it in high school-and I still talk about at least a few times a year. Really must reread! (Incidentally, Tilly is Ros’s daughter-and she is the person who inspired Ros to start her own channel!)

@Bookslovejenna Ай бұрын

@@HannahsBooks Thanks Hannah! I did start rereading Alice yesterday evening and it’s just as I remember it. I love that Tilly is Ros’s daughter. I will spend some time on her channel this week. I have a feeling I’m really going to enjoy her content.

@readknitwithcheryl Ай бұрын

That poem is so powerful! I didn't think I liked poetry, but I definitely liked that one. Thanks, for all the work you put into your videos. I've seen the Wuthering Heights movie and loved it, but the one time I tried reading it, I couldn't get into it. I may have to try it again. Thanks, again!

@Bookslovejenna Ай бұрын

@@readknitwithcheryl Wuthering Heights can be tough to get into because of the Yorkshire dialect Emily Bronte tried to incorporate into the dialogue. Certain characters feel like they are speaking a totally different language until you find your rhythm with it. If you want the story but with less dialect distraction try listening to the audio while reading along. Alternatively- and this is still how I get through it - I read it aloud to myself when I get to parts that lose me. The story is so compelling and Emily’s writing so beautiful I believe the difficulty is worth it but many a reader finds it difficult. Best to you! Oh! If you enjoyed that poem (and I really read it so fast just to get to parts I wanted so that you enjoyed it just demonstrates her power as a poet) you should give more of her poetry a try. She’s really at her best with poetry!