The Addicted Austenite

This episode looks at the British Class System that dominated the lives of Jane's characters, particularly in Pride and Prejudice - class is what the pride and the prejudice are all about!

So, this should have been last week's episode until I got distracted by shiny, bright red militiamen. 
This looks at what makes a Georgian estate and also how Mr Darcy and Mr Bingley are both estate owning gentlemen, but why they are so different. 

Have you ever noticed Jane's seeming anti-army bias in her novels? Well, this might just explain it.
Take a look at the militia in Jane Austen's England and why Mr Wickham is the perfect stereotypical militiaman. 

A look at the incomes of the Georgian era and how we can understand it by today's money. 
Here is the calculation I mention:

                                     later year's index
amount to be valued x ------------------------     = modern equivalent
                                     earlier year's index

Sorry, this episode isn't about how Harry Potter fits into Jane's work. It's about the three main, different types of characters that she uses to tell her stories with some examples from Pride and Prejudice. 

A review of the 2008 BBC miniseries Sense and Sensibility. Plus a little discussion of talking points in the JA fandom. 

Kicking off our reviews of Sense and Sensibility adaptations, we've got the best known 1995 film by Ang Lee. 

This is a summary of the novel Sense and Sensibility, and how it ties into the episodes we've done over the past few weeks. 

This episode looks at the many rules around courtship in the Georgian era and how Sense and Sensibility is essentially a Regency dating guide.

Who inherits property? How do they do it? And why is it important to Sense and Sensibility?