005 Emma and Persuasion by Jane Austen

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A lively discourse in which Miss Clausen exhibits her ‘encyclopedic knowledge of Jane Austen’ and Miss Bruick is amused. Have some tea, look at pictures of young Colin Firth, journal in the third person about who has 10,000 a year, and then join the party for our discussion of Emma and Persuasion.

Some things we mentioned in the episode:

• Jane Austen’s Other Works

  • Pride and Prejudice

  • Mansfield Park

  • Sense and Sensibility

  • Northanger Abbey

• Jane Austen Society of North America

• The 12 Publishers Who Rejected JK Rowling

• Jane Austen’s brothers in the Royal Navy

• Pride and Prejudice (2005) film

• History of the Royal Navy

• Is Jane Austen a Feminist?

  • Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen

  • A Room of One’s Own

  • American Suffrage Movement

• Film/TV Adaptations

  • BBC Emma (2009) Miniseries

  • Persuasion (2007)

• Why Is Jane Austen Still Relevant Today? (BBC Article)

• Book Recommendations:

  • Middlemarch, by George Elliot

  • Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

  • Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

• Next Episode:

  • Educated, by Tara Westover

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