I am such a true love romantic. I love it when through trials and lessons learned that two people who loved each other from the beginning finally get to get married. It is so sweet!

Lately we have been watching “The Complete Jane Austen” on PBS. I have always like Jane Austen, but had only read and seen Pride and Prejudice. Well… since PBS has been showing all of her works in movie form, I found I REALLY like her!
My favorite so far as been Persuasion, and then Mansfield Park. I just finished Persuasion and am trying to get the other.

Jane Austen’s personal story is a sad one. To have written all those love stories and then never to have found your own “Mr. Darcy” or “Captain Wentworth”. There was also a movie made about her life. It was neat, though, to see how much of her own life she put into her stories.

Miss Austen only was able to write 6 novels because her life was a short one.
A list of her works is in written order:

Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Persuasion

I am going to read all of her works during my senior year of high school. I would highly recommend this novels! There is such real life situations. There are real life lessons too that we can learn from.

Here are some quotes I quite enjoy:

“Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.” - Northanger Abbey

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.“ - Mansfield Park

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” - Pride and Prejudice

“If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them” - Sense and Sensibility

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.” - Emma

“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”“ - Persuasion

In other literature news… the HSB Literary Club has finished The Inheritance and have decided on a new book, Helen’s Temper. If you would like to join in the discussion this time, there is a Mr. Linky you can sign. We would love to have you join. And no, you do not have to have an HSB blog to join us!
Prayers and Blessings,

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