(Note to readers: I began writing this post last Monday, but my daughter has been sick all week, and I never managed to finish it until toda...

Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly ...

I did it! My hands are kind of numb, and writing coherently is something of an effort, but this has been fun. I think volume three has s...

Austen could have rushed Darcy and Elizabeth into an understanding, but such a precipitous conclusion would have denied us one of the best...

Wave goodbye to the disagreeable Wickhams, and good riddance! Now is the time for far more gratifying topics. Chapters firty-three through...

Chapter fifty Mr. Bennet sticks to his philosophy:   He had never before supposed that, could Wickham be prevailed on to marry his da...

My brain is starting to get mushy ... Chapter forty-seven brings Elizabeth back to Longbourn, where we find the residence unchanged by t...