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Jane Austen

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English novelist whose heightened period romance novels allegedly ruined a reader's ability to have typical jaded adult relationships.

Mentions (8)
"So, this led me down the rabbit hole of Romanticism. I poorly understood this movement beyond aesthetics: 'oh that's the dramatic Tchaikovsky music, Jane Austen novel, guy standing over a foggy cliff era.'"
STEMcel doomer thoughts · u/ImNotHereToMakeBFFs · ↑510 · 2023-03-05
"when i was a teen, i was (and i suppose still am) OBSESSED with her novels. i totally bought in to that heightened period romance stuff. it was like - remember your first high school crush? remember the depth of those feelings, how it consumed you and it was ALL you could think about? reading her is"
jane austen ruined my life · u/Dismas-Aurelius · ↑122 · 2022-12-11
"My expectations for myself are thus: I'm not trying to be Faulkner, or Austen, or Hemingway, etc. I just wanna tell an entertaining story, and I will do so under a pen name, because I prefer a life of anonymity."
I'm actually doing it. I'm writing a novel. · u/bussboy2023 · ↑102 · 2023-12-04
"Getting yelled at because you were a cunt to some fat bitch and then crying about it because you're the real victim is valid"
Emma Woodhouse is the most r/rsp austen heroine · [deleted] · ↑61 · 2022-04-28
"hideous selfies all at the same angle with fluctuating levels of facial fat and nasolabial foldage, no meaningful history of charity or magnanimity, some harry potter and jane austen fan fiction (im a male!)"
"Thinking about how Jane Austen invented free indirect speech, where the omniscient narrator and the speaker are combined into one."
Discourse changing · u/ourstemangeront · ↑49 · 2025-06-05
"Reading jane austen novels you realize how much land is tied to land, well Mr Bennet doesn't even work he just collects rent."
Are homes meant to be unaffordable ? · u/Calm_Helicopter_2127 · ↑24 · 2023-10-28
"his films before that include a female-focussed family drama, a Jane Austen adaptation and another movie with a gay protagonist"
Just found out Ang Lee is straight wtf · u/BossHemisphere · ↑22 · 2024-02-18
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