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Re: Infatuation vs love? (Crawfords, Churchill and more) - 5 years ago
To an extent I agree with you about Henry and Mary. The way I look at it the line between love an infatuation isn’t always clear and people often fall somewhere in between. To me when you truly love someone their well-being and happiness is as important as you own. Mary (imo) is closer to love but she never stops to think that the career or the life she would want for Edmund would make him unhappyby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Colonel Fitzwilliam's fortune - 5 years ago
I took it that way too. Mr. Collins describes Anne as the heiress.by Amytat - Tea Room
Re: wild, wild plot idea - 5 years ago
It wouldn’t be necessary for “him” to marry. According to Shapard annotation: “When the heir to an entail came of age, if the current holder of the entail were still alive, they could join together to break or annul the entail. They could then establish a new settlement of the property…” So the plan could be that when she gets old enough they will break the entail and settle things so it isn’t enby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Kindle JA FF recommendations please - 5 years ago
At the risk of flattering myself: Darcy Bites by Amy Elizabeth Davis For a humorous vampire variation, there's a nice long sample so you can see if you like it, and it's available for borrow through KUby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Col. Richard Fitzwilliam - 6 years ago
I've thought Jane is the mostly likely name for Mrs. Bennet but I didn't realize a Jane might be called Jenny, I really like that for her. Thanks for sharing your research!by Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Col. Richard Fitzwilliam - 6 years ago
I read a fanfic recently (I wish I could remember which one) where someone asks Colonel Fitzwilliam if his name is Richard (or maybe they said he looks like a Richard) and he says it's not his name but he gets that a lot and then someone asks if he knows the Earl of Matlock and he says no. I kind of got the impression JA didn't think much of the name Richard so I don't use it for him. But I haveby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Austen vs. Bronte - recommendation - 7 years ago
Thanks for the link - I really enjoyed that - especially the readings. I see now why some people talk about how wonderful it is to hear Austen read aloud.by Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Timing...? - 7 years ago
I thought I would do that but I’ve found that for longer stories the feedback and encouragement I get from readers (and even seeing the number of views for each chapter) motivates me to keep writing. It gives me a certain amount of accountability knowing there are people waiting for the next chapter. Also, for me, I think the feedback I got was more helpful to me as I went along then it would haveby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: The Other Mr. Bingley - Chapter Ten - 7 years ago
This is well rewritten and I think it shows a realistic picture of how things could have gone. Lizzy and James are a nice couple, some of their scenes are very sweet, and if I knew them in real life I would be very happy for them. But, I’m sorry that Lizzy and Darcy will never have the opportunity to grow and change, because of the challenges and misunderstandings they face in the original, and fiby Amytat - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Were Lizzie or Darcy really good catches? - 7 years ago
I may have misstated my case. I agree about how he went into the room at Hunsford and by his own admission he wished to think better of his own worth than those outside his circle. He is “properly humbled” by Lizzy’s response. In that way he has changed significantly. But, I also think the very fact that he took her reproofs to heart and worked to improve himself rather than simply resenting her fby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Were Lizzie or Darcy really good catches? - 7 years ago
His good qualities were there all along - we just hadn't seen that side of him. IMO he hasn't changed all that much, he's softened and his manners have improved but in essentials he is what he always was. I do agree he's not done growing and changing.by Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Just a thought - 7 years ago
We don’t know whether it was Bingley’s father who was in trade or if it’s further back, or when they moved to London. The girls went to school in town and are used to associating with people of rank so the family may have spent some time building and cultivating these connections.by Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Were Lizzie or Darcy really good catches? - 7 years ago
QuoteI hope you will forgive my facietiousness Ah, sorry I didn’t catch your tone. QuoteThe very fact that we argue and have different interpretations of things shows that there is much content to do that over in her works and views. Agreed. Re Mrs. Reynolds: I have trouble imagining she’d be so enthusiastic about her family if she worked for Lady Catherine but if we are treating her as if sheby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Just a thought - 7 years ago
QuoteI hardly see "deeply-rooted dislike" as any sign of affection, never mind love. Yes but her change from deeply-rooted dislike to affection is carefully documented. After his letter she stops hating him, after seeing him at Pemberley she isn't sure how she feels, after Jane's letter she feels she, "could have loved him", later She began to comprehend "that he was exactly the man who, in dispoby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Were Lizzie or Darcy really good catches? - 7 years ago
And a rainy Sunday at that (at least where I am) . I wish JA had given us the dialog of Lizzy conquering her father's incredulity. He goes from trying to talk her out of it to, “If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy." Quite the endorsement from Mr. Bennet We aren’t told that they live “happily ever after”. The details we are giby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Were Lizzie or Darcy really good catches? - 7 years ago
Thank you for clarifying that this was a general reply. I appreciate that it saved a lot of misunderstanding. Quotewhat I was asking as to whether Lizzie and Darcy were a good match for any other reason than they were made hero and heroine of Jane Austen's tale. I think it’s the other way around; they are the hero and heroine of the tale because they are an example of a very good match. They aby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Were Lizzie or Darcy really good catches? - 7 years ago
For me the question isn’t whether they were good catches or not in general but what they bring to each other. IMO they both learn and grow and become better people because of the other and they will each continue to balance and challenge each other. So for Darcy, Lizzy was a good catch and vice-versa. For another person they wouldn’t be.by Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Were Lizzie or Darcy really good catches? - 7 years ago
Re: but did she actually entertain romantic feelings before Lydiagate? I guess it depends on what you mean by entertaining romantic feelings. After his visit she can’t decide how she feels about him but when she thinks that her power over him is sinking it clarifies her feelings and she feels she "could have loved him". I would call this “entertaining romantic feelings” in the sense of having tby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: The Advertised Bride will be coming down soon... - 7 years ago
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Re: Proposing a proposal. - 7 years ago
That's interesting. I find it more powerful in the book where the exact words are left to my imagination.by Amytat - Tea Room
Longbourne - 7 years ago
I only read the free sample but I didn’t find it very realistic. Yes, it dealt with the nitty gritty grime of daily life (including detailed descriptions of what’s in the chamber pots) but it was taken to such an extreme. The Bennet’s were portrayed as a down on their luck family trying to keep up appearances by having four servants doing all the work of a full establishment. For example, on washby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Of cabbages and kings.... - 7 years ago
I guess it really comes down to JA’s reason for letting her villains off lightly. If she does it because she wants to be nice to them that’s one thing, if she does it because she wants it to be realistic that’s another. It’s satisfying to write and read fan fictions where Wickham is shanghaied and sent to the East Indies or has his throat torn out but in real life people like him often do get awayby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Colonel De Bourgh - 7 years ago
I'll have to check that out - it sounds interesting.by Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Colonel De Bourgh - 7 years ago
Assuming his older brother is not available I think the younger son of an Earl could easily be a desirable target for Lady Catherine. Personally I would rather see one of the few women in Austen who doesn't need to marry come into her own a bit. In my own Fanfic I had her gain more independence and ended her part of the epilogue with, "Miss de Bourgh never married, no matter how many times she wasby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Of cabbages and kings.... - 7 years ago
Thank you for explaining what you mean by naivety. As I said before I understand that you are expressing an opinion. I'm not claiming Austen is infallible but I do find her characters realistic. As it happens I did have the very great pleasure of knowing someone exactly like Jane Bennet. It wasn’t that she was unable or unwilling to see the faults in others. It was just that she genuinely saw thby Amytat - Tea Room
Re: Of cabbages and kings.... - 7 years ago
I agree that she writes tongue-in-cheek comedy/satire but I also think part of why she does it so well is because she has such keen insight into human nature. This doesn’t answer why you say she is sometimes naïve. Maybe it is because you take her to be showing characters acting virtuously in forgiving others?by Amytat - Tea Room