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Voices of Men in Praise of Jane Austen
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What Famous Men Said About Jane Austen: They loved her What Some Women Should Not Have Said About Jane Austen A Context for Jane Austen: Shelley & Wollstonecraft - Jane Austen's time Jane Austen, the Person: Was Jane Austen ever in love?	Jane Austen's "Passionate Passages": Yes, we say passionate Detailed Discussion of Pride and Prejudice: A new view of Darcy Detailed Discussion of Mansfield Park: No Fanny-Price bashing here Filmed Versions of the Novels: The good, the bad, the ugly
Male Voices Information: The Home Page, the Index & Archive, the Annotated References & Links, and *The Loiterer—A Newsletter*.

I. What Some Men Have Said About Jane Austen: from Sir Walter Scott to Winston Churchill
W.H. Auden Sir Francis Austen Henry Austen James Austen James Edward Austen Lord Brabourne Patrick O'Brian Lord David Cecil G.K. Chesterton Winston Churchill Frank O'Connor Sir Francis Darwin E.M. Forster Revd Fowle, a neighbor John Hubback	Henry James Paul Jennings Rudyard Kipling D.H. Lawrence George Henry Lewes C.S. Lewis Chief Justice John Marshall Lord Morpeth Sir Walter Scott Alfred Lord Tennyson Anthony Trollope Mark Twain Whately and Macaulay Thornton Wilder

II. *What Some Women Should Not* Have Said About Jane Austen.** If you are upset with Mark Twain and D. H. Lawrence, you will really be angry about
What Some Women Should Not Have Said About Jane Austen. Charlotte Bronte. Maria Edgeworth.	George Eliot. Alice Meynell. Madame de Staël.

III. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: A decidedly masculine interpretation
First Impressions of Darcy False Impressions The Nature of Jane Austen The Nature of Darcy The Nature of Elizabeth Bennet On the Orthodox View The First Assembly False Impressions of Bingley The First Proposal	The letter Text of Darcy's Letter Elizabeth's Epiphany Elizabeth on Lydia's Elopement Darcy Back at Longbourn Aunt Gardiner's letter Elizabeth's Response Elizabeth with Lady Catherine Love and Romance
Focus on the Passionate Passages Pride and Prejudice Index

IV. Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: there are no Fanny-Price bashers here.
Fraternal Ties The Banished Child Fanny Price and Sir Thomas Mary Crawford The Play Fanny, Edmund, and Mary Mary and Henry Crawford	Careless as a Woman and a Friend Henry Crawford The Main Point Focus on the Passionate Passages Fanny Price & Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: A comparison Mansfield Park Index

V. Jane Austen's Passionate Passages: do you think that our Lady's novels are primarily witty? We don't agree - join us as we make our case, and review the passion and the evocative emotions of
Emma Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey	Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility

VI. The Filmed Versions of Jane Austen's Novels: take care - you may see some of your favorite films bashed here.
Country Dancing Pride and Prejudice Emma Vote for the Emma All-Stars!	Persuasion Mansfield Park The Rozema outrage Sense and Sensibility

VII. A Context for Jane Austen: the Regency Period: and the Georgian - our Lady was formed in the Georgian period and published in the Regency.
Jane Austen's Contemporaries Mary Wollstonecraft Early Life—Family & Fanny Blood The Rights of Woman Abandonment & Motherhood Mary Shelley, born Wollstonecraft-Godwin Percy Shelley & Free love Frankenstein Matilda The Last Man "... Like Everyone Else" Jane & Mary, the Ivory or the Drums Fashion in the Regency Period Napoleonic Wars The Regency is not the Victorian Women Novelists of the period Fanny Burney's Evelina Maria Edgeworth's Belinda The Novels of Mary Hays Those Other Novelists Godwin's Caleb Williams de Sade's Justine Jane Austen's Influences? Fictional Women Defoe's "Moll Flanders" Fielding's "Maria Western" Richardson's "Charlotte Grandison" Scott's "Rebecca" & Cooper's "Cora" The Death of Jane Austen	The Gathering Storm in Austen's Time William Godwin vs. Thomas Malthus Malthus's First Essay Godwin's Political Justice The Mathematics of Malthus What's Missing? Jane Austen on Slavery A Slave Ship Captain The U.S. in Jane Austen's Time Declaration of Independence—1776 & Common Sense & slavery The Crisis The U.S. Constitution—1787 Women's Rights & Slavery War of 1812 Radical Men Discuss Women Thomas Paine Marquis de Condorcet Radical Women Mary Hays Anna Barbauld The Raging Storm After Austen's Time* Science and Mathematics* Industrial Revolution* Population Explosion* Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels* Eugenics, DNA, & Frankenstein* Picture a Bright Blue Ball
*Work in Progress

IX. Jane Austen - The Person
The nature of Jane Austen Her progressive attitudes Compared to Mary Wollstonecraft. Her interesting Aunt and Cousin Was Jane Austen ever in love? No one knows, but see Jane Austen's Eleventh Letter The death of Jane Austen A final snapshot? Her last letter to her nephew Her letter to Anne Sharp	two controversial portraits Lord Cecil's Portrait of Jane Austen What is it like to walk in Jane Austen's footsteps? Join Linda, an Editor of The Loiterer, on her Sentimental Journey to Winchester and Chawton. ... or join a Male Voice, Kate2, at Chawton and then in the Pump Room at Bath ... ... or, join another Male Voice, Ray Mitchell, in his search for Jane Austen