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Margaret Atwood Is Here To Save Us (Again), But This Time With Self-Quarantine Recommendations
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... a knight who has to play chess with a death-like figure.
4. The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien, The Age of Inoccence by Edith Wharton, and literally Anything Jane Austen.
Somewhat comforting stories: ...
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Created on 20 March 2020
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The Best Moments from the 2019 Grammy Awards
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... Cardi B and Janelle Monae also put out great releases this past year. But in the end, Kacey’s Golden Hour was a beautiful, shimmery country pop album, and her win was well-deserved. (You can ask my Instagram ...
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Created on 11 February 2019
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This 19th Century Writer Put His Hatred Of Cats Into A Science Book
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(Living)
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... by Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821-1909)
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Three Intriguing 19th-Century Dog Tales
This Legendary Dog-Like Monster Is Referenced In "Jane Eyre" And "Harry Potter"
Some Thought This 19th ...
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Created on 20 November 2018
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The Legend Of The Unicorn Goes Back Almost 2,500 Years
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According to historians, the legend of the unicorn first emerged in 398 BC, courtesy of the Greek physician Ctesias. Ctesias wrote an account of India, titled Indica. In it, he attests that all recorded ...
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Created on 18 September 2018
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This Legendary Dog-Like Monster Is Referenced In "Jane Eyre" And "Harry Potte
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According to Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, a Gytrash is a goblin or spirit which takes the form of a horse, mule, or large dog. Typically found in the North of England, the Gytrash “haunted ...
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Created on 22 August 2018
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Victorian Governesses Were In Danger From Their Employers
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(Feminism)
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... 1881, a governess by the name of Jane Hutton was out walking when Christopher Henderson, a railway worker, grabbed her by the wrist, pulled her close to him, and attempted to kiss her. Miss Hutton ran ...
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Created on 20 February 2018
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I'm An Adjunct Professor. Why Do I Love A Job That Blatantly Exploits Me
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(Feminism)
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... What next? Like Jane Eyre, I’ll do anything honest.
top photo: Pexels Creative Commons
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New York Colleges Are Fighting Campus Sexual Assault In This New Way
Female College Students ...
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Created on 02 February 2018
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How Victorian Women Styled Their Hair For Work And Everyday Life
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(Style)
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...
This post originally appeared on MimiMatthews.com and is reprinted with permission.
Top photo: Jane Eyre (2011)
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How To Avoid SCANDAL When Shaking A Victorian Man's Hand
Here' ...
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Created on 19 September 2017
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Why Are Miniature Portraits Everywhere In Books By Jane Austen And Charlotte Brontë?
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(Books)
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... the illustrious Duke of Guienne behold your father!”
Mrs. Manigault Heyward by Robert Fulton, 1813
Jane Austen’s use of miniatures in her novels is not as dramatic as that of Ann Radcliffe or William ...
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Created on 18 January 2017
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Why Cats Are Responsible For All Of English Literature (Really!)
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(Books)
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... note I will close this article, except to say that it is no minor point of literary history that the very first English novel was written about cats. Knowing this, I hope that the next time you are readingJane ...
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Created on 06 December 2016
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11.
Why Are There So Many Governesses In Classic Novels?
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(Books)
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... perfect comic foil.
The New Governess by Edmund Blair Leighton, (1853-1922).
One of the most idealized versions of a governess in English literature is that of Miss Taylor in Jane Austen’s Emma (1815). ...
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Created on 06 July 2016
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The 8 Best Prom Scenes In Popular Culture, No Corsage Or Limo Required
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(Entertainment)
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... to get over her dead mom and be happy wooooo! I mean, this trailer gave me a stomachache:
And WHO HIRED "Disaster Movie Voiceover Guy" to do the trailer for this teen sex comedy? "In a world where Janey ...
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Created on 12 May 2016
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The 10 Greatest Songs About Literary Heroines
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(Music)
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... Sea Dominican author Jean Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 as a "prequel" to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847). Set in Jamaica and England, the novel tells the story of Mr. Rochester’s first wife ...
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Created on 28 April 2016
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What An Anti-Feminist Student Taught Me About Feminism: BUST True Story
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(Feminism)
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... feminism. The student (let’s call her Jane) berated “bra-burners,” blaming them for the breakup of traditional families, the unhappiness of women, and for wasting society’s time with petty problems. Jane ...
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Created on 14 April 2016
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The Case Against Mr. Rochester: Why I Rewrote 'Reader, I Married Him
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The author of the novel Re Jane discusses why Jane Eyre’s Rochester isn’t all that. I am no fan of Mr. Rochester, though I recognize these are fighting words for Jane Eyreheads everywhere. Jane is ...
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Created on 11 April 2016
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16.
7 Books We're Reading Right No
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(Books)
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... of books like Wide Sargasso Sea, which re-imagined the lives of characters from Jane Eyre, this mesmerizing read takes us back to the moors and that home of tumultuous love, Wuthering Heights. But this ...
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Created on 01 April 2016
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Deep Cuts: The 15 Best Costume Dramas You Haven’t Seen
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(Entertainment)
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So you’ve already seen Pride and Prejudice (the Colin Firth and the Keira Knightley versions). And the Keira Knightley Anna Karenina. And Jane Eyre with Mia Wasikowsa and Michael Fassbender. You’ve ...
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Created on 06 January 2016
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Texts from Jane Eyre Turns Literary Classics Into Hilarious Convos
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(Feminism)
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... queen of Twitter, has taken this idea and ran with it. Texts from Jane Eyre (Henry Holt Nov. 4 2014) is the beautiful result: a collection of the best imagined conversations with all the characters from ...
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Created on 05 November 2014
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I Met Jeff Goldblum at Café Carlyle and All My Dreams Came True
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... and it turns out that Jeff Goldblum fans are very smart, because of course they are, they’re Jeff Goldblum fans. Apart from a few stumpers (including the opening line of Jane Eyre, which I totally would ...
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Created on 18 September 2014
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It's Time For Victorian Classics To Strip Dow
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(Sex)
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... enough to get the 50 Shades of Grey treatment? Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes: A Study In Scarlet (yes, there’s homo-erotica), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, and Northanger Abbey ...
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Created on 19 July 2012
