tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post5368227625627724797..comments2023-07-08T17:51:44.187-05:00Comments on The P&P95Forever Club: Three Things You Ought To Know About P&PMiss Mariannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-66948325190481680652014-07-29T16:12:20.876-05:002014-07-29T16:12:20.876-05:00Heehee, I've got something funny to tell you. ...Heehee, I've got something funny to tell you. About the Regency period, the Prince of Wales and so on. So the Prince of Wales had to rule for his mad dad. And I've read that a Prince of Wales was the reason why Brighton was so bad- it turns out this prince was a womanizer and &, and Brighton was one of his favorite 'haunts'. I think it's the same Prince of Wales, but I'm not sure. <br />Soooo... now for the cream... ("Ship.. court.. COURTSHIP!!")<br />...THAT makes the Prince of Wales in The Scarlet Pimpernel either a) a madman; or b) a womanizer and &. I can kinda guess which one it is! :-) He does give Marguerite some really foggy gazes. Honestly. If I were Sir Percy, I'd wack him over the head if he wasn't the Prince of Wales (and if I wasn't the Scarlet Pimpernel). <br />Love this blog!! I am not a "master"- nobody's master anymore, Higgins (sorry, just finished watching North and South again), but I am "experienced" :-)<br />And yes, Livia Rachelle!! It drives me NUTS when people say they're romances. NO NO NO!!!<br />(Sorry. I didn't mean to do that.)Miss Elliothttp://puritanobserver.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-22447453050224557022012-12-02T20:09:19.998-06:002012-12-02T20:09:19.998-06:00Livia Rachelle,
Yes, yes, I agree entirely! It doe...Livia Rachelle,<br />Yes, yes, I agree entirely! It does annoy me when people say that. Her novels are more correctly often called "romantic comedy" and people who call them romances are prejudiced numskulls. (Did I just type that out loud? Well, some of them, anyway.) And I love that quote. It's a perfect one to pull one somebody who calls them Romances. "Oh yeah? Well, my friend, a word from the Authoress herself. Put that in your pipe and smoke it."<br />Well, that is what I would LIKE to say. Haha.<br /><br />There are some other general Jane Austen misconceptions that annoy me, too... (these were just the ones in connection with P&P) such as people thinking she wrote Jane Eyre. (Grrr. How appalled Charlotte Bronte would be...) And "Jane Austin"... that I simply cannot abide. <br /><br />Oh, looks like Miss Dashwood beat me in answering this comment... haha, and she is so much better at Not Rambling than I am. I am a sad girl.Miss Mariannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13998086120488856082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-28001858775682808732012-12-02T20:05:56.627-06:002012-12-02T20:05:56.627-06:00Livia Rachelle, thanks so much for pointing that o...Livia Rachelle, thanks so much for pointing that out! It's terribly annoying how many people refer to Jane Austen novels as "romances"... I heard someone once call P&P "historical fiction," which is even worse!Miss Dashwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15821653607968651548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896148621982295828.post-79394624320894277342012-12-02T19:59:34.837-06:002012-12-02T19:59:34.837-06:00Another Jane Austen misconception is that her nove...Another Jane Austen misconception is that her novels are romances they are not (especially not Northanger Abbey which is a satire of the contemporary popular Gothic novels)-in her own words: "I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & to never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No-I must keep to my own style & go on in my own way." Yes, thank-you for going on in your own style-we are much obliged I am sure!Livia Rachellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02755623391278276925noreply@blogger.com