tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post4241990171116793797..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: More Jane Austen: The Price of Drab Boards, Wedgewood, & Posthumous FameUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-59809707345240945772010-11-02T21:04:19.661-04:002010-11-02T21:04:19.661-04:00The famous Virginia Woolf saying about a room of o...The famous Virginia Woolf saying about a room of one's own actually finishes with "and 500 pounds a year." When you think about it these women were far more pragmatic than we are.<br />One cannot live on love alone, after all.Lexi Bestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-40484729293596149132010-11-02T21:01:52.786-04:002010-11-02T21:01:52.786-04:00It WAS a $5000 tea pot, a quarter of a century ago...It WAS a $5000 tea pot, a quarter of a century ago. I was terrified of it slipping (I poured) as the table top was glass to boot.<br />The owner was a serious collector.Lexi Bestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-14644837437885340692010-11-02T07:40:16.483-04:002010-11-02T07:40:16.483-04:00Michael, thanks for the links.
Sara R., I've ...Michael, thanks for the links.<br /><br />Sara R., I've also read that Jane Austen considered herself a successful professional writer, and for a woman writing at that time, the seven hundred pounds was probably pretty good.<br /><br />Lexi, I agree - whatever leads you to the original books is just fine. I'm shallow enough to admit that I have in fact bought a book for the sole reason that the guy on the cover was hot. However, I do regret that there are people out there who've seen the movies and read the zombies,but never have read JA's originals. Their loss....:(<br /><br />Mme Tresbeau & Lexi - yes, sharing the same china would definitely be chill-worthy! Though somehow I doubt that if you'd paid whatever outrageous sum that china will fetch, you'd be willing to actually USE it. *g*<br /><br />Anonymous, there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with Colin Firth in a wet shirt. Nothing at all. Though I do have serious misgivings about the most recent P&P with Miss Elizabeth Bennet's full-blown smokey eye makeup....<br /><br />Penny, I'm sure Becky Sharp said something similar about money. It sounds very like her, doesn't it?Isabella Bradford/Susan Holloway Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997375216314200469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-75631710404170201672010-11-02T00:49:55.543-04:002010-11-02T00:49:55.543-04:00Didn't Becky Sharp say something quite paralle...Didn't Becky Sharp say something quite parallel in Vanity Fair?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03785589273419234826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-26830743809933440122010-11-01T19:35:58.139-04:002010-11-01T19:35:58.139-04:00Hey! What's so wrong with Colin Firth in a we...Hey! What's so wrong with Colin Firth in a wet shirt? ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-48177225257809989872010-11-01T18:36:59.578-04:002010-11-01T18:36:59.578-04:00Mme Tresbeau I agree! I once had tea from a very n...Mme Tresbeau I agree! I once had tea from a very nice 1805 pot and I couldn't help but wonder about all the gossip that had been shared over it.Lexi Bestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-2052675406835163922010-11-01T14:31:35.704-04:002010-11-01T14:31:35.704-04:00Now I would much rather have the china than the un...Now I would much rather have the china than the unread books. To know that Jane Austen herself ate from the same plates would be magic.Mme.Tresbeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09946280107593133692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-77271142457955240722010-11-01T12:49:07.044-04:002010-11-01T12:49:07.044-04:00I'll admit that I hadn't read Austen befor...I'll admit that I hadn't read Austen before I saw Firth's wet shirt. I enjoyed Thompson's Sense & Sensibility more because I hadn't read the book. <br />My friend who took me to the show was disappointed as it was one of her favourite novels. She gave me a set of Austen's works.<br />Emma with Gwenyth Paltrow was very pretty but it disappointed me because I had read it by then.<br />I'm the kind of person who likes historical movies. So if they are interesting then I'll read more about it -- biographies, novels in Austen's case, social history. This often leads me to have a really enriched understanding of a time and place.<br />So I don't have a problem with people who only know her through Mr Darcy, look what else we got from that - zombies, Bridget Jones' Diary and Lost in Austen and more. And give people time, some of them at least will make their way to the books who wouldn't necessarily have been drawn to a 200 year old work.Lexi Bestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-43045735215588293032010-11-01T07:29:59.025-04:002010-11-01T07:29:59.025-04:00Goodness, that's a great deal of money for tho...Goodness, that's a great deal of money for those unbound books! Especially when considered next to Jane's own total income from writing. I read somewhere that she considered herself a successful writer, but that doesn't seem like much.Sara R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-62718798292154760772010-11-01T01:51:22.088-04:002010-11-01T01:51:22.088-04:00Thanks for the shameless plug, Susan. Could I in t...Thanks for the shameless plug, Susan. Could I in turn mention Kathryn Sutherland's recent work: ‘Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood’, { http://www.amazon.com/Jane-Austens-Textual-Lives-Aeschylus/dp/0199234280/ref=tmm_pap_title_0 }<br />She is the Project Director and Principal Investigator for the ”Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts” web project { http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/index.html } you discussed in a prior post, http://twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com/2010/06/jane-austen-crosses-out.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18385689703075431439noreply@blogger.com