![]() ![]() This is a development from that proposal. ![]() She is a partisan defender of women, and places them in her text at every opportunity given, and ostentatiously refuses to make numinous figures out of powerful men. Her text goes beyond vindicating Mary Queen of Scots, and the Stuart kings and the English house of York, well beyond parodying Oliver Goldsmith’s popular history. For the coming JASNA to be held in St Louis, Missouri, in which the topic is to be Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, I sent in a proposal where I said I would demonstrate that in her The History of England, Jane Austen meant to burlesque the norms shaping the way “history, real solemn history” was written in her era, and to include and to defend not just infamous women, but forgotten and underappreciated ones. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all … Catherine Morland, Northanger Abbey, I:14)Īfter all, for my first 2020 blog I have an innovative perspective on Jane Austen’s Juvenilia to share. I read history a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not vex or weary me. Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s sixth wife (for the origin and my first adumbration of this perspective: What she said about Tudor queens) ![]()
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