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81 " 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. "
― Lucy Worsley , Jane Austen at Home
82 " No quería convertirse en una leona literaria ni cazar a otros leones. "
83 " Tal vez esta obra sea la más profunda, la más romántica de las novelas de Jane. "
84 " Jane, mientras tanto, seguía sin tener un amante, ni un prometido muerto, ni un solo penique propio. "
85 " 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. "
86 " 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. "
87 " 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. "
88 " 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. "
89 " 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. "
90 " 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. "
91 " 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. "
92 " 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. "
93 " Jane, como mujer que era, lo sabía todo acerca de la organización doméstica. Pero nadie antes que ella lo había convertido en arte. "
94 " 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. "
95 " Y, según el momento del matrimonio se va aproximando para las heroínas de la autora, podría afirmarse que algo extraño sucede en su narrativa. "
96 " Y, sin embargo, la propia Jane Austen concedía poca importancia a la belleza. Apenas si describe la apariencia de sus protagonistas "
97 " Len s Austenovou si začali ženy myslieť, že chcú - nie, potrebujú - pána Darcyho. Len s Austenovou začali ženy žiť tak, ako žijú dnes. "
98 " Jane roza de pasada la cuestión de la maternidad en sus escritos, pero da la sensación de que le inspiraba temor. "
99 " 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. "