Mister bennet was so odd, a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice. The experience of three and 20 years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous. Its solace was visiting and news. Well, i suppose i should just end by saying, i rest my case, and i but let jane alsten do t permi it with me for me. Thanks very much.
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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