The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen (Paperback)

"You could not shock her more than she shockes me; / Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass. / It makes me most uncomfortable to see / An English spinster of the middle class / Describe the amorous effects of 'brass,' / Reveal so frankly and with such sobriety / The economic basis of society." First Impressions: On Reading Jane Austen Capsule: Pride and Prejudice Sidebar: Of White Soup and Darcy's 10,000 Pounds. Clearing up questions about these and other very important matters to Netherfield Park, Longbourn, adn Pemberley The Sentence - no other sentence in English literature has suffered the flattery of imitation as has the opening of Pride and Prejudice. The Importance of a Good Carriage: traveling ca. 1812 Sidebar: More than a Constitutional: Heroines who Favor Walking Landscape and Austen A Mini-quiz of Austen "Why I married her" by Mr Bennett What's Aldous Huxley got to do with it? Pride and Prejudice on Film. (From the 1940 [mis]treatment of the story to one of the most-watched programs in British broadcasting history [the BBC 1995 version] to the controversial 2005 post-nuptial kiss to Mrs Darcy--with a stop in India (Bride and Prejudice) and Bridget Jones. Sidebar: Leading Men from Laurence Olivier to Colin Firth and Matthew McFayden Admirers: An intereview with Helen Fielding Mrs Bennett Was Right: The Marriage Plot in Austen Novels Pride and Prejudice: The Rejected Screenplays The Pride and Prejudice Quiz Jane Austen, the Early Years Map: Where Jane Austen Lived How to Celebrate Jane Austen's Birthday (Dec 16) in Style Capsule: Jane Austen's Juvenilia "If She Could See Them Now"--Austen's relationship with her publishers A Reading Quiz--Link the books being read with the readers from Austen's novels Capsule: Sense and Sensibility Class and Austen Sidebar: The Clergy in Austen's Fiction Sense and Sensiblity on Film An Austen Dictionary: Georgian, Linens, Regency When and How to Read Jane Austen--A Poem What Makes a Janeite? Capsule: Mansfield Park "Why I Loved Mansfield Park"; "Why I Dislike Mansfield Park" Mansfield Park on Film Reviewers: Who Said What about Jane Austen The Characters We Love to Hate--Lady Catherine de Bourgh et al Jane Austen's Letters Sidebar: Weather Report Capsule: Emma Wry Is Not Just a Location in Yorkshire--Jane Austen's Style