The List Lover’s Guide to Jane Austen Blog Tour – Joan Strasbaugh

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The List Lover’s Guide to Jane Austen is unique in that it’s a series of quotes and quips from Jane’s life.   As it is the 200th Anniversary of Pride & Prejudice, author Joan Strasbaugh, who is a “hard-core fan” and known in Jane circles around the world has created a portrait of this beloved author as a living, breathing human being; The List Lover’s Guide to Jane Austen is perfect for any 18th century Brit lit buff. Austen aficionado or student of literature. Lists like “Her Social Circle” and “Balls and Dances She Attended” weave a seamless portrait of the woman that Austen was — not based on her fictions, but on her facts. While including extensive background information on the author (down to the very flowers she grew in her garden), the book also features juicy details like: Possible Suitors; Who Broke Her Heart;· The Hearts She Broke;· Her Morbid Sense of Humor; Jane’s Royal Ancestors.

The List Lover’s Guide to Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility
“Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.”

Pride and Prejudice
“Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them [the Gardiners]; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.”

Mansfield Park
“On that event they removed to Mansfield, and the parsonage there, which under each of its two former owners, Fanny had never been able to approach but with some painful sensation of restraint or alarm, soon grew as dear to her heart, and as thoroughly perfect in her eyes, as every thing else within the view and patronage of Mansfield Park, had long been.”

Emma
“But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union.”

Northanger Abbey
“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty–six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced that the general’s unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.”

Persuasion
“She gloried in being a sailor’s wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm, for belonging to that profession which is—if possible—more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance.”

Lady Susan
“For myself, I confess that I can pity only Miss Mainwaring; who, coming to town, and putting herself to an expense in clothes which impoverished her for two years, on purpose to secure him, was defrauded of her due by a woman ten years older than herself.”

Joan Strasbaugh has been a proud Janeite for half of her life. She now works
as the senior editor of Abbeville Press in New York, and notably organized
the Jane Austen in the 21st Century Humanities Festival at the University of
Wisconsin. A former publisher at Jones Books, Strasbaugh also holds a
membership to the Jane Austen Society of North America.

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