Jane Austen, often celebrated for her sharp wit and keen observations of human nature, was a master of creating compelling male characte...

Beth Massey lives in Chicago with her husband of forty plus years. Her first love as a child was the theatre. A voracious reader, she de...

Greetings and salutations, gentle readers. I have been invited by the lovely and charming Miss Grazia to share a few words with you,...

Welcome to the   Jane Austen's Birthday Soiree on My Jane Austen Book Club! You know, this is an idea  Katherine Cox's at Novemb...

The Libertine A thousand martyrs I have made, All sacrificed to my desire, A thousand beauties have betrayed That languish in resistless fir...

(Captain Wentworth 2007 , Rupert Penry-Jones) "A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ...

Mr. Knightley can be considered as the novel’s model of good sense. But, please lets's not go on considering him a fatherly figure. Isn...

I found this interesting comparison in an analysis of Edmund Bertram's character on line: Edmund has a lot of things in common with a Gr...

The master of the ceremonies introduced to her  a very gentlemanlike young man as a partner; his name was Tilney. He seemed to be about f...