Jane Austen info page, Pride and Prejudice hypertext, etc.

Jane Austen, English author (1775-1817). Pride and Prejudice, a novel first published in 1813.

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  • The singular "they", "their" etc. construction, including --
    • Over 75 examples from Jane Austen
    • Examples from the OED, from Lewis Carroll's Alice, etc.
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  • Literary:
    • The Unfortunate Happy Lady: A True History -- Aphra Behn
    • Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe -- George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), 1861
    • The Light Princess -- George MacDonald
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``It must be remembered that in Mark's mind hardly one rag of noble thought, either Christian or Pagan, had a secure lodging. His education had been neither scientific nor classical -- merely "Modern". The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling.''
-- That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis

``A few general Rules extracted out of the French Authors, with a certain Cant of Words, has sometimes set up an illiterate heavy Writer for a most judicious and formidable Critick. [...] many of those who have endeavoured to signalize themselves by Works of this Nature plainly discover by the Phrases which they make use of, and by their confused way of thinking, that they are not acquainted with the most common and ordinary Systems of the Arts and Sciences.''
-- Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 291, February 2 1712

``The cheaper sort of philosophers and literary men are always deriving half-baked theories which pretend to solve all problems by means of grandiose but undefined catch-words (idealistisch, geistesgeschichtlich, ganzheitlich, Spannung, Polarität, and so on). They affect a rakish up-to-dateness of phrase which is to show their posession of the important `new' idea and casts a suspicion of idiocy upon anyone who has not yet adopted it.''
-- Leonard Bloomfield, Language vol. 8 (1932), p.225.

``And now my letter will not be worth your reading, for there will be no little offering of love at the end, no three or four lines passionnées from the most devoted H. C. in the world, for Henry is in Norfolk''
-- Mary Crawford, in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

``Even when he is happy, he looks like a minor figure in one of those Russian novels where someone is found hanged in the orchard around about page 632, and the serfs are knouted every couple of chapters.''
-- New York Times October 16th, 1992

``He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five. I felt no fear of him, and but little shyness. Had he been a handsome, heroic-looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked. I had hardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.''
-- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter 12 [Jane Eyre's first meeting with Mr. Rochester].

``These, however, I feel well enough are the transcendentalisms of a retired wretch, so you must speak frankly.''
-- Charlotte Brontë, letter of October 30th, 1852