Austenish

Synonyms for "austenish" (2 found)

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And she gives us the peculiarly Austenish pleasure of watching good, intelligent, and articulate people work their way through much painful error to the relief of shared understanding.

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The Egoist takes place in an Austenish world of country houses—more than Austenish, indeed, for despite Williams’s depreciating comment that Austen’s ‘country is weather or a place for a walk’, her walks at least strike out across fields and take to public roads.

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For instance, Mrs Williams is described in an Austenish vein early in the text as ‘a little insignificant “nobody,” the daughter of a missionary, having neither connections nor money, nothing in the world to her advantage save a singularly pretty face’ (9) – a description that, following the death of her grandmother, describes Anne, too, who suddenly finds herself the daughter of a missionary, with few connections and less money, but still in possession of a pretty face.

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