Jane Austen wrote about how women depended on marriage in order to find favorable social standing an economic freedom. How cool!
That's interesting. I saw Pride and Prejudice, which I think was based on one of her novels. She was very progressive for her time.
I didn't realize Pride and Prejudice was a movie! Apparently the first film adaptation of one of her books was in 1940.
Yes it was. It starred Jena Malone and Donald Sutherland. I thought it was pretty good. What is your favorite work of hers?
I actually haven't read any of her books, though they are wildly popular. what's your favorite book?
I really liked Sense and Sensebility. It really struck me how similar issues are today to that of Victorian times!
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. Instantly successful, widely read in high schools and middle schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
The novel is renowned for its warmth and
Bernstein believed that Hood's past work contained "a romantic sensibility... There is a poetic quality about his writing as well as there being a rigorous emotional truth which I thought was important for Jane." Hood was attracted to the film because he believed "the story is such an important one and very much the inspiration for "Pride and Prejudice"." Calling Austen a "genius" and "one of the top two or three prose writers of all time", Hood thought that her relationship with Lefroy "was