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141 " It would be Jane’s unique contribution to illustrate the effect of these seismic events indirectly, as they played out in the tiny details of the day-to-day life of ordinary people. She made the political into the personal. "
― Lucy Worsley , Jane Austen at Home
142 " Among Jane’s important innovations as a novelist would be her decision to make her heroines less than perfect, but much more than weak-minded. "
143 " There’s a good explanation for why the Georgian age’s greatest novelist spends so much time in her letters discussing tea and sugar, and the finer details of the trimmings of clothes. These were the things in their lives over which Jane and Cassandra had control. Where the sisters should live was not their choice. Major purchases like furniture were rare. Independent travel, higher education lay out of reach. What did fall within their grasp was the purchase and the use of household supplies, and the ability to give and accept occasional invitations for visits to friends and relatives. No wonder the letters devote so much attention to these matters. "
144 " Like so many fictional detectives, Sergeant Cuff is given a hobby to cover up this essential blankness at his centre. Just as Inspector Morse is really little more than a hyper-intelligent and grumpy collection of hobbies (beer-drinking, opera and crossword puzzles), Sergeant Cuff’s central preoccupation is gardening. "
― Lucy Worsley , The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
145 " Consequently, Jane’s letters, like her books, spend little time describing a house. A room’s prospect or temperature, when she was staying away from home, might be mentioned, but she never describes the wallpaper or the curtains. That’s because these too, the permanent fixtures and fittings of life, were beyond her control. "
146 " For Jane, a house, it’s furniture, were given. It was the smaller things, the bonnets, the recipes, that were up for grabs. These represented her personal choice, and were therefore worth describing. "
147 " The way Jane lays out her paragraphs, and the frequent use of italics to indicate which words should be stressed, were all intended to aid someone ‘performing’ the novels aloud. It looks like Jane’s books encouraged women’s voices to be heard: not only as words on the page, but also out loud, in real life, in the drawing rooms of late Georgian England. "
148 " Jane, como mujer que era, lo sabía todo acerca de la organización doméstica. Pero nadie antes que ella lo había convertido en arte. "
149 " Al fin y al cabo, Jane procedía de una generación romántica, la misma que fue descubriendo que, a diferencia de lo que sus padres les habían enseñado, una podía aspirar a más. "
150 " Y, según el momento del matrimonio se va aproximando para las heroínas de la autora, podría afirmarse que algo extraño sucede en su narrativa. "
151 " Y, sin embargo, la propia Jane Austen concedía poca importancia a la belleza. Apenas si describe la apariencia de sus protagonistas "
152 " Len s Austenovou si začali ženy myslieť, že chcú - nie, potrebujú - pána Darcyho. Len s Austenovou začali ženy žiť tak, ako žijú dnes. "
153 " Jane roza de pasada la cuestión de la maternidad en sus escritos, pero da la sensación de que le inspiraba temor. "
154 " Los victorianos estaban a punto de inventar, y de idolatrar, la figura de la madre como ángel del hogar. Jane lo vio venir, y no le gustó. "
155 " This early story, ridiculously set out in its twelve ‘chapters’ each merely a sentence long, is the perfect introduction to Jane Austen’s satirical, sparkling naughtiness. Jane’s nephew, in his influential early biography, would depict his maiden aunt as full of virtue, kindness and meekness. ‘There was in her nothing eccentric or angular,’ he thought, ‘no ruggedness of temper; no singularity of manner.’ Well, the evidence of her early writings suggests otherwise. They are simply packed full of utterly eccentric and angular girls doing bad deeds. "
― Lucy Worsley