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5 days ago · Northanger Abbey is the second Jane Austen book I’ve read so far this year, and was very different to Persuasion. It reads almost like a tale of two halves. Catherine Morland is adventure-bound, travelling to Bath with friends, where a whole world of society opens up to her. It’s entertaining as she discovers all manner of people, with all ...
3 days ago · May Dates of Importance. This brings us now to several important May dates that relate to Jane and her family: Family News: May 1801: Austen family leaves Steventon and settles in Bath. Mrs. Austen and Jane travel via Ibthorpe. James Austen and his family take resident at Steventon rectory.
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4 days ago · 10. It is very fitting that Catherine, an 18th century heroine, should be fascinated by the Picturesque. While walking to Beechen Cliff, Henry instructs her on the picturesque - an English 18th century movement in the painting of landscapes which favoured asymmetry and irregularity to structure. The Picturesque is closely associated with the ...
2 days ago · 9. Since her father was a clergyman, Jane Austen always portrayed the clergy as good, kind, upstanding people. Answer: False. While some are good, (Edmund Bertram, Edward Ferrars, Henry Tilney) some are not. Mr. Collins is silly and toady; and Mr. Elton is vain, proud, and actually quite mean to Harriet.
1 day ago · This Earl of Holland was a younger son of Robert Rich, first Earl of Warwick, by his marriage with Penelope, daughter of Queen Elizabeth's favourite, the Earl of Essex, and the "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney. He was a favourite with King James's "Steenie," Duke of Buckingham, whom he almost rivalled in coxcombry.
3 days ago · TILNEY. The Lord Bardolf's manor of Islington, and that of William de Scohies of Broughton, &c. extended here; and Heyld Montford, see in Islington.. Lord Bardolf's Fee. At the survey Hermerus, (de Ferrarijs) of whom see in Wirmegay, alias Wrongey, had a lordship in Tilney, held by Turchetel, a freeman, in King Edward's time, and was deposed.
3 days ago · St. Catherine of Siena is a saint, mystic and doctor of the Church. Here are 8 things about her to know and share. Jimmy Akin, April 29, 2020 – National Catholic Register. April 29 is the memorial of St. Catherine of Siena. She is a saint, a mystic and a doctor of the Church, as well as a patroness of Italy and of Europe.
