Mister bennet's wife told him that netherfield is to be taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of england. She said he came down on monday in a chaise and four to see the place. And was so much delighted with it that he agreed with mister norris immediately that he is take possession before michoelmas. Mister bingley may like you the best of the party, my dear. You flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but i do not pretend to be anything extraordinary. Now, when a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.
Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of the Janeites, but to the aficionados of Emily Brontë they are the misguided worshippers of a circumscribed mind. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë dispensed with Austen’s niceties and the upper-middle class drawing rooms of Bath and the home counties. Her backdrop is the savage Yorkshire moors, her subject the all-consuming passions of the heart. To help you decide who should be crowned queen of English letters we have the lined up the best advocates to make the case for each writer. In this event, chaired by author and critic Erica Wagner, we invited guests including author Kate Mosse, Professor and author John Mullan, and actors Mariah Gale, Samuel West and Dominic West, to discuss each writer's influence.
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