The Mansfield Theatricals
Mansfield Park. Jane Austen. 1814. Mansfield Park is Austen’s second greatest novel (after Emma) and my personal favorite, and I am aware that this is »
Books of a Serious Stamp
Pride and Prejudice Chapter Fourteen Mr. Collins’s visit to the Bennets commences in earnest in chapter fourteen, and he predictably and comically makes an idiot »
Sad, Bad Business
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife, Chapter Fourteen: So What Happened? We again take a detour into the Derbyshire underclass, such as it is, and visit poor »
Servility and Self-Importance
Pride and Prejudice, chapter 13. Something that Jane Austen loves doing, and did to perhaps to best and most sophisticated effect in Mansfield Park, is giving »
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife, Chapter Thirteen. So, What Happened? While Darcy rides off to “see to things” as the last chapter described, Elizabeth has not »