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121 " En esa misma carta de noviembre de 1798, Jane menciona a otro joven, un segundo pretendiente, posiblemente más serio que el primero. "
― Lucy Worsley , Jane Austen at Home
122 " In the timeless journalistic manner, the regurgitation of the gory details is justified on moral grounds by an editorial voice that condemns each fact even as it relishes it. "
― Lucy Worsley , The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
123 " Y sin embargo sí estuvo un poco enamorado, y fue un poco amado a su vez. Y gracias a él pudimos ver a Jane como un ser humano en todas sus dimensiones: tras un muro de orgullo, y también con las defensas bajadas. "
124 " James’s poem is really saying, yes, she may well have been a great writer. But more importantly, she was still able to rustle up something for dinner. "
125 " Of course we had been taught exactly what she said, from our very cradles, and our early belief in the king's virtue, kindness, justice and mercy was reinforced by every priest and teacher and lord in the land.At court, though, it was immediately obvious that this was not true. We could not ignore the evidence of our eyes that the king, God's anointed chosen monarch, was in fact a gluttonous, predatory old man.[Maid of the King's Court] "
― Lucy Worsley
126 " Jane aportó una perspectiva singular al plasmar las repercusiones de esos tremendos sucesos de manera indirecta, reflejándolos en los pequeños detalles de la vida cotidiana de personas corrientes. Transformó la política en algo personal. "
127 " «Voy a crear una heroína que a nadie le caerá demasiado bien, sólo a mí», proclamó Jane durante la concepción de Emma Woodhouse "
128 " On the face of it, [Victoria] was deeply socially conservative. The idea of votes for women, for example, disgusted her. But if you look at her actions rather than her words, she was in fact tearing up the rulebook for how to be female. "
― Lucy Worsley , Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
129 " La idea de las señoritas «perfectas», como ya sabemos, provocaba en Jane el deseo de estrangular al que la defendía. "
130 " la reacción de Jane a la muerte resulta casi despiadada. Pero en aquel entonces constituía una muestra de aceptación, loable y femenina, de la voluntad de Dios. "
131 " El gran don que nos legó Jane fue sobrevivir a esos tiempos sombríos, conservar la esperanza y permanecer fiel a unas elecciones vitales que llegarían a expandir la noción misma de lo que implica ser una mujer escritora. "
132 " If he can say as you can Guinness is good for you How grand to be a Toucan Just think what Toucan do. "
133 " white swan’s-down hood and "
134 " No quería convertirse en una leona literaria ni cazar a otros leones. "
135 " Tal vez esta obra sea la más profunda, la más romántica de las novelas de Jane. "
136 " Clifford’s servant, however, had looked in ‘through the key-hole, and seeing his master hanging, brake in before he was quite dead, and taking him down, vomiting a good deal of blood’. He was just in time to hear Lord Clifford’s last words, which were ‘there is a God, a just God above’. "
― Lucy Worsley , If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
137 " Jane, mientras tanto, seguía sin tener un amante, ni un prometido muerto, ni un solo penique propio. "
138 " Despite the protestations of the Austen family that her closest male relatives formed Jane’s taste and aspirations, it’s recently been proved that the love and friendship of a number of older women would be equally – if not more – important for her future career. "
139 " We live today in an age of deadened senses. "
140 " But Jane also had her friends outside her family. Her preternatural cleverness meant that her closest friends, beyond Cassandra, tended to be women significantly older than herself. Also, she did not lack role models in the form of females who were published writers. "