Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Its been a while since I read any Austen so I'd be up to read and discuss a bit... but rather like Virgil I can't promise I'll be around for the full score. Im quite focused on my own artwork right now and haven't been doing a lot of reading... far more listening to music... but I think Austen would be a fun break.
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Sounds like fun. Like St. Luke's I can't absolutely promise regular participation, but I've read all the books before (some multiple times) and could certainly re-read quickly and contribute some to the discussion. I'm up for reading any of them, so I'll leave it to others to choose.
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Would love to read any Austen in company.
Lim I can not promise I will be around for all of them, I am back at Uni next weekOriginally Posted by limajean
but I will join in when I can if that is OK. The three month time frame is actaully great for me gives me a month or more to read a book. I am sure they will be better than my accounting ones
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That's fine jo, anyone can join at any time, you also don't have to read ALL of the books if at some point you can't find time for one.
Also, contribution to discussion can be as little as you like
I'll be up for it. I'll have a look regularly.
In the past year I have read P&P, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion and now I am reading Emma.
I read very thoroughly, so I rarely have to reread. But I'll participate in the discussion... I was planning to finish Austen's list off anyway. A little discussion on them would be great.
I would recommend starting with P&P as that was her first, although not first published. Sense and Sensibility I found quite tedious in comparison to P&P. Het style gets a little of getting used to in that sense. P&P is simple and short. For anyone in this thread who is not an Austen fan who has read all, it might be a better starter than S&S or Persuasion.
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I thought Northanger Abbey (My fave) was her first written though not published work.
P&P was first started in 179something when Austen was still very young. NorthangerAbbey is much later. At least according to Penguin Classics.
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I stand corrected. but there was much overlapping. P&P was written by 1797 as "First Impressions" then revised several times until published in 1813. NA was finished by 1803, and published after her death.
Last edited by prendrelemick; 07-18-2009 at 09:56 AM.
Northanger Abbey was written first, and stood unpublished for a while, before being returned as a manuscript, and then published posthumously. The actual bibliography is quite difficult to interpret as she seems to write all over the place, but from my understanding.
Northanger Abbey
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion
Umm Northanger Abbey couldnt have been written until after 1801 on account of the fact she mentions Belinda that wasnt published till that year.
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I can't remember if it does or not - I know it mentions Udolpho quite often, but, Wiki says 97-98, and going for publication (unsuccessfully) in 1803, then being published posthumously. Could you dig up the Belinda reference?
It was sold to a publisher in 1803 and remained there unpublished for six years after which it was returned.
Pride and Predjudice was submitted to a publisher in 1797 as "First Impressions" and rejected. She then spent many years revising it until it was published in 1813.
Northanger feels like her earliest work though, it is the least sophisticated.
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The Belinda Quote is at the end of chapter 5. in her defence of The Novel.
Thanks prenderlmick. I seem to rember reading that she wrote LAdy S when she was 17. But it was publish postomeusly as part of her memoirs originally I think.
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