Passion and virtue
“How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine. But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because...
View ArticleThe charms of Miss Bates
Why is it everyone likes Miss Bates so much? “Her daughter [Miss Bates] enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. Miss Bates stood in the very...
View ArticleIsabella on poverty
“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.” Northanger Abbey, volume 1, chapter 15 Alas, if only Isabella knew the truth of her words!
View ArticleSo dreadful!
“You will be an old maid! and that’s so dreadful!” [Harriet] “Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A...
View ArticleLovely (rich) Kent
“People get so horridly poor & economical in this part of the World, that I have no patience with them.–Kent is the only place for happiness.” letter to Cassandra (Jane’s brother Edward, who had...
View ArticleMarry? Mr. Collins?
“Mr. Collins to be sure was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. But still he would be her husband. Without thinking highly either of...
View ArticlePride, his best friend
“I wonder that the very pride of this Mr. Darcy has not made him just to you! — If from no better motive, that he should not have been too proud to be dishonest, — for dishonesty I must call it.” “It...
View ArticleHe does not want abilities
“Mr. Darcy can please where he chuses. He does not want abilities. He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth his while. Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a very...
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