In Judith Terry’s introduction, she highlights the dialogue between Anne and Harville re: constancy of the sexes. It is not necessary to project our feminist interpretation, it’s there already. Jane Austen’s writing is so wonderfully yin/yang. Her natural feminism expands our historical imagination. Maybe not so much re:abolishionist thinking.
Much was made of a smallpassage in Mansfield Park about Jane Austen's views on slavery, and in relation to that, i didn't feel that the good Captain Wentworth's sorting out stuff in the West Indies for Anne's friend sounded particularly abolishionist. Frances
Can you recommend a biography of Jane Austin?
Claire Tomalin
In Judith Terry’s introduction, she highlights the dialogue between Anne and Harville re: constancy of the sexes. It is not necessary to project our feminist interpretation, it’s there already. Jane Austen’s writing is so wonderfully yin/yang. Her natural feminism expands our historical imagination. Maybe not so much re:abolishionist thinking.
Much was made of a smallpassage in Mansfield Park about Jane Austen's views on slavery, and in relation to that, i didn't feel that the good Captain Wentworth's sorting out stuff in the West Indies for Anne's friend sounded particularly abolishionist. Frances