Word: austen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commissioned, innocently enough, to locate Shoebridge as the heir to a fortune. Amiable George Lumley, a garrulous middle-aged failure, does Blanche's detective work for a fee-and a night in bed. Then there is Miss Rainbird, a conventional spinster and country heiress out of Jane Austen...
...manages a plausible coherence in a sea of allusion, exploring and connecting literary, philosophic and psychological territory. He stages, in effect, a dialectical drama of many acts and of swiftly changing sets, where thesis and antithesis are sincerity and authenticity, and where such incongruous couples as Robespierre and Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and Karl Marx, J.P. Sartre and R.D. Laing share the billing...
...Jane Austen may have been a great novelist, but her hair was a mess. That bit of historical minutia was revealed by Scientist J.A. Swift of Britain's Unilever Research after an exhaustive analysis of a lock of hair that had been bequeathed by Miss Austen to her niece and ended among the relics of the Jane Austen Society. His scanning electron microscope, Swift reported in the erudite scientific journal Nature, showed that changes brought about in individual hairs by brushing and combing were absent from the lock of the woman who wrote Pride and Prejudice. "It must...
They are a raunchily genteel exercise-Belle Watling as Jane Austen. This is Pauline commenting on the doomed marriage of one of her girls to a "trick": "Ghosts of past lovers soon blot out the fragile spark of passion, leaving only bitter ashes on love's hearthstone." A 250-lb. termagant who served on occasion as her own bouncer, Pauline can also be and talk, as she might say, rough as a cob. Not surprisingly, she turns out to be a moralist. Pornography shocks her. So does wife swapping. Homosexuals are "lovey-dovey gay boys" and feminists are YLib...
...that ill-veiled threat, literature was still largely in the hands not only of men but monks. It was more than four centuries before women in any numbers began to write fiction; but almost as soon as they did, it was clear that writing talent has no gender. Jane Austen is one of the supreme geniuses of the novel, and only a handful of writers have exceeded the accomplishment of George Eliot, the Brontës, Virginia Woolf. For years, though, criticism has been full of daffy generalizations uttered with patriarchal assurance about women as miniaturists, delicate sensibilities, custodians...