A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.
Mary LascellesFew novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters.
Mary LascellesTag: jane-austen
Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.
Mary LascellesTag: jane-austen
When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant.
Mary LascellesTag: writers storytelling authors social-world
Jane Austen never repeats herself.
Mary LascellesTag: jane-austen
Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility?
Mary LascellesTag: jane-austen emma sense-and-sensibility
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