Eleanor and Isabella
Saniyya Gauhar, Mahlia S. Lone, and Laaleen Sukhera are members of the Jane Austen Society of Pakistan (JASP) and contributors …
Tag Archives: ambition
Valancy Stirling’s Inner Life
My sister Bethie Baxter objects to my criticism of Valancy Stirling’s lack of ambition. She read the blog post I …
“I have to write”: Emily Climbs
In L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Climbs (1925), one of the novels Emily Starr reads is The Children of the Abbey (1796), …
“Do not imagine, Miss Bennet, that your ambition will ever be gratified”
Lady Catherine insists to Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice that she must not think she will ever improve her …
Anne’s House of Dreams and the “great Canadian novel”
“Young Dr. Blythe” is a very busy man and he’s often away from the little white house he and Anne …
Anne Shirley’s Ambitions
I’ve always loved the image of the “bend in the road” that appears in the final chapter of L.M. Montgomery’s …
“We must think the best”
“We must think the best & hope the best & do the best.” Jane Austen wrote this line in a …
Austen and Ambition (and Philadelphia)
I went to Philadelphia last weekend to speak on Jane Austen and ambition at a JASNA Eastern Pennsylvania meeting, and …
“I’ll never try anything again till I try New York”
Part Three in a series celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country. Undine Spragg crosses …
How I Discovered The Custom of the Country
Part One in a series celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country. It was my …
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