Archive: Winter and Spring 1999

The Male-Voices Message Board
In Praise Of Jane Austen
Winter and Spring of 1999

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January

1/2/99 Kate3 - What really was Jane Austen trying to say?
- 1/9/99 Julie Grassi - Jane Austen and her time
- 1/2/99 Ashton - Reply: Her vision was timeless.
  - 1/3/99 Kate3 - Reply: Rebellious Jane
    - 1/3/99 Ashton - Reply: our community
1/5/99 Merici - my short paper on comparing Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility
- 1/6/99 Meister - Post away!
1/9/99 The Meister - The prose Shakespeare: What two of her contemporary, male voices said about Jane Austen
1/15/99 Lydia - Pride and Prejudice mailing list.
1/21/99 Ashton Dennis - "Without Brilliancy of Any Kind": What some women shouldn't have said about Jane Austen
- 1/21/99 Julie Grassi - George and Charlotte (not the monarchs, the other ones)
- 1/21/99 Ashton - literary forensics and domestic tranquility
  - 1/22/99 Julie Grassi - Authorship
  - 1/22/99 Ashton - the precise attribution
    - 1/23/99 Julie Grassi - George again - with a touch of Charlotte
1/24/99 The Meister - What Thornton Wilder said about Jane Austen
1/25/99 - An update of what G.K. Chesterton said about Jane Austen,
and an update of what E.M. Forster said about Jane Austen,
and an update (gulp!) of what Mark Twain said about Jane Austen
- 1/24/99 Julie Grassi - Greatness
1/24/99 The Meister - What Henry James said about Jane Austen,
and what D. H. Lawrence said about Jane Austen
- 1/24/99 Julie Grassi - Richard Cranium
1/28/99 The Meister - What Alfred Lord Tennyson said about Jane Austen,
and what George Eliot's lover said about Jane Austen
1/31/99 Happy S-B Sunday! May all your bets be covered and may your designated driver prove responsible. Try to remember that you share this world with 49er fans and we would appreciate a little quiet about now - if you please.
- 1/31/99 Julie Grassi - What?
- 1/31/99 Ashton - What John Cleese said about Americans
  - 2/1/99 Julie Grassi - You'll find out!
  - 2/1/99 Ashton - a hazed colonial and Mary Shelley's recently-discovered manuscript

February

March

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May

June

6/1/99 Laurie - Mansfield Park vs. Pride and Prejudice
6/2/99 Ray Mitchell - Now I'm worried
6/8/99 Ray Mitchell - Lighting as an excuse
- 6/10/99 Julie Grassi - More translation, please
6/8/99 The Meister - In defense of the parents in Jane Austen's novels
6/10/99 Heather Swallow - BKB: Needing Persuasion
6/13/99 Julie Grassi - The Shopkeeper in Jane Austen's time - and another one for Ray
6/15/99 The Meister Only 32 days until Ray Mitchell begins his advance upon Winchester, Chawton, and Bath (golly! - do you think he will be OK?). Julie and her husband are celebrating their silver anniversary this week (golly! - do you think he is OK?).
6/17/99 The Meister - Women, property, and inheritance in Jane Austen's time - An example
- 6/18/99 Cheryl - Women and Property in JA's time
- 6/19/99 Ashton - Our shared, blue-collar perspective
  - 6/21/99 Cheryl - The female contribution
6/21/99 The Meister - It is the solstice today, and things are heating up in the Central Valley of California. I mentioned to my wife that, as of 4 PM, we will have been married 42 years. This dear person looked up rather surprised and said "Surely, that is long enough!" Very funny. OK, my wife may keep the Dorothy Dunnett novel I bought her, but no cake and ice cream!
- 6/21/99 Cheryl - Sacrificing virgins?
6/22/99 Heather Swallow - Juvenilia - Jack and Alice and Pope and Austen
6/22/99 Laurie - Emma and Mr. Knightley
6/24/99 Heather Swallow - definition of feminism?
- 6/24/99 Ashton - response
- 7/2/99 Ray Mitchell - Jane Austen as WHAT?
  - 7/7/99 Julie Grassi - (Reluctantly): Feminism
6/30/99 The form provided for your submission on this page is fully operational again. Many thanks to the engineers at Yahoo!GeoCities.
It was 104^o in the valley yesterday and the prediction is for 108^o today. But, don't fret - our humidity hovers between only 15 to 20%. These conditions are typical for this time of year.

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