Mary C. M. Phillips

Today, over at What Jane Austen Didn’t Tell Us!, Clarice Neudorfer writes about a common learning tool in Jane Austen’s time.

In Pride and Prejudice Caroline Bingley defines her perspective of an accomplished woman by listing “music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages,” but fails to include reading. However, Mr. Darcy then augments the list … “She must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

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Today, over at What Jane Austen Didn’t Tell Us, Linda Dennery discusses the life and duties of a Clergyman in Austen’s time.  

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Today Paul Wray discusses how gentlemen dealt with financial debt in Jane Austen’s time.

Jane Austen didn’t tell us about how George Wickham managed “to be in debt to every tradesman” in Meryton without finding himself in legal jeopardy for not paying what he owed. Likewise, at Brighton, Mr. Gardiner tells the family, “He owed a good deal in town, but his debts of honour were still more formidable.”

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