[I find her sense of the "superiority" and "inferiority" of certain classes has a lovely echo in the Indian society of today....and that whole females.and- fate-worse-than-death hypocritical morality, which I see all around me now]
Don't you find this is true of all her novels? Every time I read her work I find the romance/the happy ending more and more incidental*. The way she writes women and their relationships with their families, especially with other women, has an almost alarming resonance for me. :) It's a pity Gurinder Chadha had the same ideas. Supriya. * - Never understood the fuss about Darcy, especially the Colin Firth character in the TV series. The sort of character who, were the book a Yash Chopra film, would be played by Saif Ali Khan. Blech. [My favourite Austen hero has to be Frederick Wentworth, though, possibly because there's less of a fatherly vibe to him than there is with Mr Knightley and Colonel Brandon.] On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Supriya Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I see what you mean about snark > > > SNARK!!! The very word I was looking for. > > > > *beam* It's great to meet you too. I've long been a lurking admirer of > your > > posts to this list. > > * head swells up visibly* > > > What have > > you been re-reading? I just got back home from a three-month stint in > > Calcutta and the first thing I did was to crack open Persuasion, which > is > > full of hideous characters, and still manages to tolerate and > accommodate > > them. It's a marvel. A marvel! > > I yam reading Yemma. I find her sense of the "superiority" and > "inferiority" of certain classes has a lovely echo in the Indian > society of today....and that whole females.and- fate-worse-than-death > hypocritical morality, which I see all around me now...I have a > 25-year old friend whose father is in the US, and is telling her > mother not to leave her alone for 4 days and go to Chennai, as she > will "go out of control"! My other Austen favourites are P&P and S&S. > > And if you want to get to the original scent-se of this thread... this > is what a drift smells like! > > Deepa. > > -- Doo-bop.
