“You will be an old maid! and that’s so dreadful!” [Harriet]
“Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.” [Emma]
Emma, volume 1, chapter 10
The Jane Austen Guide to Life: Thoughtful Lessons for the Modern Woman (May, 2012)
A Walk with Jane Austen: A Journey into Adventure, Love, and Faith
That’s really awful, but completely true. Money makes everything looks agreable, no matter what people have done to get it or who someone really is. The only rich heroine of JA’s works shows that her falts are always forgotten because oh her whealt, and other girls, with less money that make something wrong are always pointed on the street. How the world has changend so little since that times. That’s why Jane is universal and her books still talk to our realities.
How true, and sad that this statement is still true today. Good luck on the sale of your book! I hope your run out of first editions on the first day!
How true, and sad that this statement is still true today. Good luck on the sale of your book! I hope your run out of first editions on the first day!
Here’s to good fortune!
I can’t wait to get your book; I hope it’s this year’s best seller! That’s so true about singleness, and Austen would certainly know what she was talking about.