Who are literature’s ten strongest female characters? Here’s my list.
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Lit’s 10 Strongest Female Characters
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged As You Like It, Charlotte Bronte, Daneil Defoe, Doll's House, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Moll Flanders, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Portrait of a Lady, Scarlet Letter, Wife of Bath, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Jane Austen Has Something for Everyone
No two students respond to Jane Austen the same.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Emma, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Relationships, Sense and Sensibility, teaching Comments closed
Serving Students a Jane Austen High Tea
Serving my students a Jane Austen high tea made the novels come alive.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Education, high tea, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility Comments closed
Mitt as a Jane Austen Villain
Like Henry Crawford in “Mansfield Park,” Mitt Romney is inconstant and will say anything.
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Jane Austen’s Musings on Memory
The minds translates the helter-skelter of events into tidy narratives, often to the detriment of what really happened. Fanny Price in “Mansfield Park” muses on this phenomenon.
Jane Austen and “Occupy Wall Street”
In “Mansfield Park” Jane Austen calls out the irresponsible wealthy in ways that the Occupy Wall Street protests would approve.
Using Austen to Understand Racism
African American blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates uses Jane Austen’s villainous Fanny Dashwood to penetrate the mindset of American racists.
