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Do you recognize this man?
“Hear the truth, therefore, now, while you are unprejudiced. [He] is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; who, for his own interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Jane Austen, Persuasion, Trump
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The glory of empire…built by slaves, reparations and lut
Those of us who read Jane Austen are not startled to face facts about the British Empire’s centuries-old role in slavery. Although Austen’s references to slavery are muted, in both Mansfield Park (1814) and her last novel, Persuasion (1818), the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Country Houses and the British Empire", "Home Truth", Amazing Grace, Britain's anti-slavery laws, British East India Company, British slavery, British West Indies, Clemson University, East India Company, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Marquess of Lothian, National Trust Properties, Penrhyn Castle, Persuasion, Richard Pennant, Robert Clive, Sam Knight, Slavery Abolition Act, slavery reparations, The Legacies of Slavery database, The National Trust, The New Yorker, the old testament, the Ten Commandments, Tibet
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The most inexplicable Jane Austen reference ever
I just finished re-reading Mansfield Park, so I know the sentence to which this bizarre item in Harper’s July 2021 Findings refers. But… The sentence “If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation … Continue reading
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Tagged Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, self-immolative urethane
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