A Jane Austen January
“I must confess that I think her as
delightful a character as ever appeared in print.”
- Jane Austen on her character Elizabeth Bennett
Every January I get Jane Austen fever. I don’t know why… it just happens. It must be ingrained in me that when Christmas is done and the weather is cold and blustery, that the prescription for the “wintertime blues” is all things Jane. I pick out one of her big fat novels to read… and pop the movies in the dvd player… and research all the websites that have anything to do with her… and I am lost in the world of Jane Austen. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong time… but no, Mark needed to live in the time of Macintosh Computers and I couldn’t be without him, so… here I am in 2008. I can still live vicariously through her novels, though. And so I do: every January.
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