Introduction to Analyzing Austen - A Blog for Regency Writers We are all fools in love. Pride and Prejudice This blog will attempt to analyze the brilliant Jane Austen in order to understand, glean, possibly adopt, a bit of her brilliance in our own lives and writing. This blog will not magically endow one with irony and wit, but it will demonstrate how Jane Austen used character relationships, story arcs and the manners of her day to create delightful courtship comedies and dramas read the world around, century after century, by both men and women. The world of Jane Austen, with its high society, status struggles, lost loves, won loves, beautiful balls, heroines discovering themselves and happy endings, is a world of perfect escapism. It is a world without starvation, car insurance, political campaigns, death of good people or puppies, and wonderfully lacking television. It is a leisurely world of reading books, improving oneself, writing stories, gossi...
For Regency Writers