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"but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement."

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
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"You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged."

Jane Austen (chp. 10)

"They gradually ascended for half a mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of a valley, into which the road with some abruptness wound. It was a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills;—and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance. Its banks were neither formal, nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place where nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. They were all of them warm in her admiration; and at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!"

Pride and Prejudice

(Jane Austen)

30 Day Challenge Day14: Favorite love confession from the books.

My favorite love confession is also my favorite quote. Here it is again:

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in

F. W.

“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”

Captain Wentworth’s letter to Anne Elliot from Persuasion

Here is the letter scene from the 1995 Persuasion adaptation in English:

Here is letter scene from Persuasion video in Spanish:

30 Day Challenge Day 13: Least Favorite Austen Man

Mr. Wickham from Pride and Prejudice

Why? He is conniving and so pretty.

However, Mr. Wickham from Lost in Austen is kind of a nice guy and my favorite Mr. Wickham. 

Who is your least favorite Austen Man?

30 Day Challenge: Least Favorite Book & Least Favorite Heroine

:( I’m getting tired of these least favorite challenge posts. Additionally, I haven’t read all of Jane Austen’s novels. So I’ll have to modify this post to be…

The book I am least excited to read: Sense and Sensibility
Least favorite heroine: Marianne

Reason: Well, I’ve seen three movie adaptations of this novel and haven’t gotten into the story yet. As I said earlier, I don’t fully understand why Mr. Willoughby decides to marry someone rich person (doesn’t he have character?) Why Marianne decides to marry Colonel Brandon. Just because he digs her? Of the marriages that occur in Jane Austen’s stories, puzzles me.

Maybe when I get around to reading it, I will appreciate it more. And if you’re wondering…I do intend to read it. Here is my proof: 

That’s right, I bought it for $1.00.

30 Day Challenge Day 10: Most frustrating family member.

Lady Russell

Relation: Anne Elliot’s neighbor and pseudo mother.

Lady Russell, from Persuasion, is one of Jane Austen’s most frustrating family member because she used her influence to persuade Anne Elliot to break up with the love of her life, Captain Frederick Wentworth due to lack of status and wealth. Now, that act alone would make any young person’s heart crumble, but Lady Russell acted not out of malice but out of love - she wanted what was best for Anne - so how can Anne hate her? But Anne did lose the love of her life because of Lady Russell….

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There are so many frustrating characters to pick from. Jane Austen definitely included at least one intolerable person in each of her families - Lydia Bennet, the Elliot Sisters, The Bertram sisters, Mrs. Bennet and the list can go on and on!

In your opinion who’s the most frustrating family member?

30 Day Challenge: Most Hated Foe

General Tilney

Why?

General Tilney from Northanger Abbey is a big meanie who throws his house guests out in the middle of the night. WHO DOES THAT?

General Tilney with Northanger Abbey in the background.

30 Day Challenge Day 8: Least Favorite Couple

So it looks like I’ve failed the 30 Day Jane Austen challenge! I’ve fallen way behind but, no matter. If you fall off the horse you get back on it.So here it is my least favorite couple:

Mr. Wickham and Lydia Bennet

Lydia & Mr. Wickham are my least favorite couple because Lydia is pretty annoying and she just wanted a trophy husband to brag to her sisters about. Secondly, Mr. Wickham is such a pig and just wanted to get some.The two of them alone are pretty annoying characters.

Jane Austen makes it seem like these two horrid personalities deserve their sad future with each other. (Basically living in poverty and surviving off the money Elizabeth & Jane give them). I don’t like this future for them, even if they are my least favorite couple! Couldn’t Lydia have grown some sense? or Couldn’t Mr. Wickham find some kind of useful occupation so they wouldn’t have to keep borrowing money from the Darcys and Bingleys? 

My second least favorite couple is Marianne and Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility. Don’t really know why, maybe it’s because I don’t understand how Marianne comes to love him. Seems very one sided to me. If someone understands this couple please enlighten me!

30 Day Challenge: Day 7 

30 Day Challenge: Favorite Moment in the Movies

In the 2005 Pride and Prejudice adaptation, the first proposal is my favorite scene. 

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

- Jane Austen

30 Day Challenge: Favorite moment in the books.

I have two favorites.

In Persuasion, when Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot meet for the first time in Bath. The part when he says:

“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

Why: At this point in the novel, you can cut the tension in the air with a knife. Wentworth and Anne are so close to being together. Anne starts to believe that he would still love her and Wentworth is starting to believe that she still loves him.

In Pride and Prejudice, my favorite moment is the very last paragraph.

With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.

Why: The last sentence of the novel surprised me! Not a single member of the Bennet family could believe that Elizabeth fancied Mr. Darcy but here the Gardiners wanted them to be together.

30 Day Challenge: Favorite Quote from the Books

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in

F. W.

“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”

Captain Wentworth’s letter to Anne Elliot from Persuasion