The Male-Voices Message Board
In Praise Of Jane Austen
Summer of 1999

Here is a link to the Table of Contents for this web site; the Index and Archive is a navigational guide. Also, I have prepared an introduction and explanation for you at the Home Page, or you can link to these References, Links, and Annotations.

July

• 7/1/99 Robert Falcon - THE MAKING OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
  • 7/1/99 Ashton - My favorite link
• 7/2/99 Heather Swallow - Letters and conceits
  • 7/3/99 Ashton - a conceited epistle
  • 7/5/99 Julie Grassi - Disagreements?
• 7/5/99 Heather Swallow - Say Anything - Advice and Consent for Ray
  • 7/6/99 Julie Grassi - I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself, you see.'
  • 7/7/99 Heather Swallow - Elmira and Dorinda - Not another addendum to the Juvenilia
    • 7/7/99 Julie Grassi - juvenalia
• 7/7/99 Ashton - 1771-75: Love, Marriage, and Murder in Jane Austen's Time
  • 7/8/99 Julie Grassi - Love, marriage and privities in Jane Austen's time
• 7/7/99 Cheryl - Wickham's commission
  • 7/8/99 Julie Grassi - That book
    • 7/9/99 Cheryl - Book info, and some other stuff
  • 7/10/99 Ashton - Bribes or Fees?
    • 7/12/99 Cheryl - Wickham's commission
    • 7/13/99 Julie Grassi - Silk
• 7/11/99 Ray Mitchell - Promises and threats
  • 7/12/99 Cheryl - Happy traveling
  • 7/11/99 The Meister - From one Meister to another
• 7/15/99 Ray Mitchell - Looking for Jane Austen
• 7/16/99 Ray Mitchell - Pissed! (in the American sense)
  • 7/16/99 Ashton - Good Lord!
  • 7/17/99 Julie Grassi - Churches
  • 7/18/99 Cheryl - Another of Jane's predictions comes true
    • 7/19/99 Julie Grassi - Baiting the hook?
    • 7/20/99 Cheryl - Fish or cut bait?
    • 7/21/99 Heather Swallow - More rustling of silks
      • 7/21/99 Cheryl - lawyer bashing
      • 7/21/99 Julie Grassi - Baiting the trap, more like it
      • 7/22/99 Cheryl - Coach horses and Monty Python
• 7/17/99 Laurie - Sanditon
  • 7/17/99 Ashton - Sanditon and Prejudice
• 7/20/99 Heather Swallow - Slithy toves and vacuums
• 7/20/99 Julie Grassi - You are really going to hate me for this!
  • 7/22/99 Julie Grassi - Touche
• 7/21/99 Ray Mitchell - Jumping and kissing
  • 7/22/99 Heather Swallow - Monty Python Sketches
• 7/23/99 Ray Mitchell - Creaking doors and chamber pots
• 7/23/99 Ashton - This Serb is back at his gate
  • 7/24/99 Julie Grassi - No, no, NO!
    • 7/24/99 Ashton - Response and then quotes from J.E. Austen-Leigh
    • 7/26/99 Julie Grassi - Do I own a copy? What do you reckon?
  • 7/27/99 Cheryl Hoffman - quibbles
    • 7/28/99 Julie Grassi - Gallopping goannas!
      • 7/28/99 Ashton - so much to say, so little time
      • 7/28/99 Julie Grassi - References
    • 7/29/99 Cheryl Hoffman - Sorry, been busy trashing Ashton
      • 7/30/99 Julie Grassi - Empires
  • 7/27/99 Heather Swallow - Kissing in the Streets
    • 7/27/99 Ashton - Responses to Heather and Cheryl and thoughts for Julie
    • 7/29/99 Cheryl Hoffman - Need more convincing
    • 7/31/99 Heather Swallow - Sex on the Sofa
• 7/26/99 Hentie - Plunging in
  • 7/27/99 Laurie - Warning to Hentie: irony
  • 7/27/99 Cheryl - Welcome Hentie (among other things)
  • 7/26/99 Ashton - You are most welcome here.
  • 7/27/99 Hentie - Kissing, marrying and filming
• 7/27/99 Hentie - Time, jobs and Chawton
  • 7/28/99 Julie Grassi - Appearances
• 7/27/99 Julie Grassi - Romance and Charlotte Lucas
• 7/31/99 Heather Swallow - Miscellaneous, or: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
  • 8/1/99 Hentie - Guilty as charged.
  • 8/2/99 Ashton - Hardy on film
  • 8/5/99 Heather Swallow - Paltrow, Thompson, Hardy

August

• 8/3/99 Ray Mitchell - Finding Jane Austen
  • 8/3/99 Ashton - well then, you also found Darcy
    • 8/5/99 Julie Grassi - A voice from the grave
• 8/5/99 Irena Pochop - Wollstonecraft & Austen
  • 8/6/99 Ashton - references and interpretations
  • 8/7/99 Julie Grassi - Did somebody say Bronte?
  • 8/8/99 Julie Grassi - Addendum: Anne Bronte
• 8/7/99 Julie Grassi - Charlotte Lucas again: theme with variations
  • 8/8/99 Ashton - Well said, but let us cut to the chase
  • 8/9/99 Julie Grassi - What conversation?
    • 8/16/99 Ashton - My case against Charlotte Lucas: "sacrificing every better feeling"
    • 8/16/99 Julie Grassi - Clarification, hopefully
      • 8/30/99 John - Julie's "Clarification, hopefully"
• 8/10/99 Kevin Broadbent - Jane Austen -- Name of Mr Woodhouse's daughter
  • 8/10/99 The Meister - Reply
• 8/10/99 Julie Grassi - Mary Wollstonecraft
  • 8/10/99 The Meister - Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wilberforce
  • 8/11/99 Julie Grassi - Wilberforce
• 8/16/99 Jane in Vain - A poem by Paul Jennings, submitted by Ray Mitchell
• 8/16/99 John - Heather's interpretations of literary character
  • 8/16/99 Ashton - Welcome
  • 8/18/99 Heather Swallow - Interpreting Darcy
    • 8/19/99 Ray Mitchell - NOTES?? ME??
    • 8/18/99 Ashton - Man-talk with a glossary of terms
      • 8/20/99 Heather Swallow - Actually, I'm an alto
  • 8/20/99 John - Thanks for the warm welcome, but....
    • 8/20/99 Ashton - You have convinced me
• 8/20/99 Laurie - Mr. Collins: "third biggest jerk"?
  • 8/21/99 Ray Mitchell - Jerks
  • 8/23/99 Julie Grassi - Jerks
    • 8/23/99 Ashton - Julie's easy assignment
    • 8/24/99 Ray Mitchell - The Barbarian Speaks
    • 8/24/99 Bruce - on offering advice
    • 8/25/99 Bruce - Addendum: What do we live for, if not to meddle in our friends' lives?
    • 8/24/99 Julie Grassi - Interference
      • 8/24/99 Ashton - Knightley is right, but that doesn't matter.
• 8/24/99 John - Mr. Collins in Malmo, Sweden, and in Stratford, Ontario
• 8/24/99 John - Mary Crawford
  • 8/24/99 Ashton - Well - Uhh - Actually - Mmm
• 8/25/99 The Meister - In Defense of Darcy and Bingley: More Man-Talk for Heather
  • 8/26/99 Julie Grassi - Wimps
  • 8/27/99 Bruce - Bingley is too a wimp.
  • 8/26/99 Laurie - Bingley and Darcy
  • 8/27/99 Heather Swallow - Man-speak
    • 8/27/99 Ashton - True Janites split hairs
    • 8/28/99 John - The Darcy/Bingley exchange concerning dancing
    • 8/28/99 John - Addendum: True Janeites Split Hairs
    • 8/28/99 Julie - Development
    • 8/28/99 Heather Swallow - Trimming hairs and catching flies
• 8/25/99 John - Miss Lucy Steele a harpy? A HARPY?!!
  • 8/26/99 Julie Grassi - Harpies
  • 8/28/99 John - Miss Lucy Steele: a harpy not a harpist
    • 8/29/99 Julie Grassi - Crow Pie
• 8/29/99 Julie - My, wasn't I a snotty tart!
  • 8/29/99 Ashton - Oo-ooh Julie
  • 8/30/99 Julie - Animalia
  • 8/30/99 John - Do koala's make sounds?
    • 8/30/99 Julie - Koalas
• 8/30/99 Cheryl - late thoughts on Charlotte Lucas
  • 8/31/99 Julie Grassi - I will so too forgive you!
  • 9/1/99 Cheryl - Right here the whole time
• 8/30/99 Laurie - Jane Austen mysteries

September

• 9/1/99 The Meister - On Ray Mitchell's search for Jane Austen
  • 9/6/99 John - An arrested development
  • 9/6/99 Ashton - Male-Voices Staff report
    • 9/6/99 John - Personas
  • 9/13/99 Ray Mitchell - The elusive Miss Austen
    • 9/14/99 Julie Grassi - Being There
    • 9/15/99 John - Ray Mitchell: The Elusive Jane Austen
    • 9/16/99 John - Addendum
• 9/1/99 John - The young ladies in and near Longbourne one summer
  • 9/1/99 Julie Grassi - Jane Austen's disapproval
  • 9/2/99 Julie Grassi - Addendum: What Charlotte did .....What Charlotte did next
  • 9/1/99 John - Charlotte Lucas:  A Promise Made Is A Debt Unpaid
  • 9/2/99 John - Addendum: Charlotte Lucas: Disapprovals
    • 9/3/99 Julie Grassi - Given a choice ........ choosing Mary Crawford
• 9/2/99 Ashton - Some thoughts after reading Barnaby Rudge
  • 9/3/99 Julie Grassi - Dickens
    • 9/8/99 John - Branwell Bronte, the Beatles and their Mrs. Robinsons
    • 9/9/99 Julie Grassi - The Robinsons
  • 9/3/99 Ashton - More on Jane Austen's History of England and Dickens's Rudge
  • 9/4/99 John - Tobacco, swords, histories, wars, and twits
• 9/7/99 John - Mark Twain and, of course, Fanny Price
  • 9/8/99 Ashton - The man was an Anglophobe
  • 9/10/99 John - Mark Twain, Bramwell, and S&G
• 9/14/99 Marian - Enjoyed your POV
  • 9/14/99 Ashton - Welcome and some references
  • 9/15/99 Marian - Thank you for the links to your views on P&PBBC
    • 9/15/99 Ashton - Thank you for forgiving me.
    • 9/16/99 Marian - You invite comment
      • 9/17/99 Ashton - The nature of Elizabeth Bennet
• 9/15/99 M.S. - Jane Austen's satiric novels
  • 9/15/99 Ashton - Welcome
  • 9/16/99 John - Very Welcome
  • 9/26/99 M.S. - LADY SUSAN and Catherine
• 9/15/99 Marian - Amanda Root as Fanny Price
  • 9/15/99 Ashton - Amanda Root would be perfect
• 9/16/99 The Meister - A big public "thank you" to John for his fine web-research on the forthcoming version of Mansfield Park. You provide us all a great service and the entire community is grateful.
  • 9/7/99 Cheryl - New Austen Manuscript Found!!!!
    • 9/12/99 John - Mansfield Park, Toronto International Film Festival - September 1999
    • 9/12/99 Ashton - John's research and French spies
    • 9/13/99 Julie Grassi - Mansfield lesbians?
      • 9/13/99 John - Interview of Patricia Rozema by Peter Howell
      • 9/17/99 John - Reviews of the new version of Mansfield Park
      • 9/21/99 Cheryl - Mansfield Park trailer
  • 9/22/99 Bruce - Mansfield and the Slave Trade
• 9/20/99 Marian - Culture
  • 9/20/99 Ashton - You are too kind
• 9/21/99 Mary - interesting site
  • 9/21/99 Ashton - Welcome
• 9/21/99 Anielka Rice - Dear M.A.D.
  • 9/21/99 Ashton Dennis - Welcome and congratulations
    • 9/23/99 John - Re: Welcome and congratulations
  • 9/22/99 Julie Grassi - Sun down under
  • 9/22/99 Julie Grassi - Addendum: Dominance?
    • 9/21/99 Anielka Rice - Still MAD, still theorising.
    • 9/23/99 Ashton - Some good - some less so
      • 9/23/99 Anielka Rice - Byron and Anne Kingsmill-Finch
• 9/22/99 Heather Swallow - Various and sundry attempts to catch up
  • 9/22/99 Laurie - Austen's Juvenilia, among others
  • 9/23/99 John - A Forgotten Marriage
  • 9/23/99 Heather Swallow - Thanks, John. I had forgotten that one.
• 9/23/99 Leah Haney - JA research project
  • 9/23/99 Ashton Dennis - My responses
  • 9/25/99 Heather Swallow - Pop culture
  • 9/25/99 Julie Grassi - Leah's query
  • 9/25/99 Mary Sue - response to Leah
  • 10/1/99 John - Leah Haney's JA Research Project
  • 10/2/99 Cheryl - responses
• 9/23/99 David Knight - Mansfield Park--a dilemma
  • 9/23/99 Julie Grassi - Artful Attachment
  • 9/24/99 John - Artful Attachment
  • 9/24/99 Ashton - I side with Julie and Jane Austen on this one
    • 9/25/99 Julie Grassi - Whiskey in the jar?
• 9/27/99 Cheryl - Jumping back in
  • 9/28/99 John - Jumping back in: Cheryl
  • 9/29/99 Julie Grassi - Rigor
    • 9/29/99 Cheryl - A reply
• 9/28/99 John - Romantic Literature and Characters and Romances
• 9/29/99 Marian - A Recommendation for a Recommendation
• 9/30/99 Christine Anson (UK) - Emma Thompson's S&S '96
  • 9/30/99 The Meister - Welcome
  • 9/30/99 Julie Grassi - Important useful relationships
    • 9/30/99 Ashton - reply
    • 10/1/99 Julie Grassi - And a big Tasmanian raspberry to you, too!
    • 10/2/99 Julie Grassi - Addendum: Cl - Cl - yes, I did say clumsy!
    • 10/1/99 John - Julie's Useful Relationships
    • 10/2/99 Cheryl - The Dynamic Dashwood Duo
      • 10/3/99 Julie Grassi - Elinor and Fanny