#Tea with Jane Austen

[sapphoismymuse]

i’ve watched both versions and have come to the conclusion pride and prejudice 2005 is for when you’re feeling sappy and romantic and yearning

pride and prejudice 1995 is for when you wanna watch everyone verbally eviscerate each other at every opportunity

[p4nishers]

crowley is about to pull some "if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more" shit im literally telling u

[liones-s]

in these blissful June days, let us rest

[moonyackertarg]

im just a period drama girl in a digital world

[janiesmentallibrary]

Coffee & a book. That‘s all I need.

[ladywatereton]

Day 9 - Tea & Coffee (and others)🍰☕

Inspired by ✨Janeuary Month✨ prompts on Tumblr

🎥 Sense & Sensibility (1995), Mansfield Park (1999), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Emma (2020).

📺 Pride & Prejudice (1995), Persuasion (1995), Sense & Sensibility (2008).

🎶 Dinner Time, Dennis Korn.

🎞️ Persuasion (1995), Sense & Sensibility (1995) Scenes from "Mistress of Pemberley" (YouTube), Mansfield Park (1999) Scenes from "Miramax" (YouTube).

@janeuary-month

[juniperandjustice]

Please help me pick which dress to wear for a Jane Austen tea party: brown and white striped with long sleeves, blue with short sleeves, or burgundy with short sleeves?

I will sew the sashes in place so that they don't scrunch-up.

(And yes, I know, I'm fat. I'm working on it.)

I have some kinda light beige ballet flats that I think should work with any of these.

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

Properly rewatching A Court of Fey & Flowers for the first time I forgot how good this season was it’s honestly even better on the second watch

[notlikeotherbirds]

I loved the latest DW ep as much as the next gay

But I will say that I am somewhat disappointed (if not insulted) that we were in regency era England, and the only reference that's made is bridgerton? Put some prespect on my girl Jane Austen's name, please! Where do you think Bridgerton got all that from

You're telling me the Doctor knows everyone and their mom but hasn't ever met the mother of romance novels?! Like come on!

[an-extraordinary-fate]

There is something so motherly and yet a little bit wicked all at once about Mrs Jennings. She’s no image of perfection. She’s vulgar and embarrassing with her penchant for gossip and teasing. But she isn’t just that. She’s loyal and generous and good-natured. She can tell when people are cold-hearted like Mrs John Dashwood, so she doesn’t just like everyone. She doesn’t hold back on passing judgment when people disappoint her like Willoughby, Mrs Ferrars, and Lucy. She lacks the level of refinement and sensitivity that the highest order of Austen’s characters have, but she isn’t one to just disregard as ONLY comic relief. One of the best things about her is she often spouts a bit of nonsense in with wise things that make you check you understood her correctly. She is good-hearted and sincere in her affection for Marianne and Elinor, but she isn’t always self-aware, sensitive or even logical. This combination allows her to say some of the most delightfully silly things with utmost sincerity. Mrs Jennings is one of my favorite characters because she keeps you on your toes with her ability to say something nonsensical after saying something so wise.

Wise with a a dash of silly (because her being pretty is irrelevant)

“Well, it is the oddest thing to me, that a man should use such a pretty girl so ill! But when there is plenty of money on one side, and next to none on the other, Lord bless you! they care no more about such things! -- "

Wise and prudent. Willoughby COULD marry Marianne if he wanted and was patient. It would just be a less financially extravagant lifestyle. He is not a victim. He makes his own choices.

“Fifty thousand pounds! and by all accounts it won't come before it's wanted; for they say he is all to pieces. No wonder! dashing about with his curricle and hunters! Well, it don't signify talking, but when a young man, be he who he will, comes and makes love to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business to fly off from his word only because he grows poor, and a richer girl is ready to have him. Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and make a thorough reform at once? I warrant you, Miss Marianne would have been ready to wait till matters came round. But that won't do, now-a-days; nothing in the way of pleasure can ever be given up by the young men of this age."

And then a hilarious and nonsensical observation, hypothesis, and advice all wrapped in one. Has she actually met her good friend Colonel Brandon? She certainly doesn’t understand his or Marianne’s depths if she thinks he will laugh over M’s misfortunes or that M will just quickly transfer her affections to him if she can just forget Willoughby exists.

“Well, my dear, 'tis a true saying about an ill wind, for it will be all the better for Colonel Brandon. He will have her at last; aye, that he will. Mind me, now, if they an't married by Midsummer. Lord! how he'll chuckle over this news!…One shoulder of mutton, you know, drives another down. If we can but put Willoughby out of her head!"

[vanalex]

[the-forest-library]

Still working my way through Persuasion (and learning A LOT about the British navy from the annotations). It is paired today with an iced oatmilk chai latte and a slice of chai-spiced gluten free banana bread that I picked up from the farmers market yesterday.

[kajilychnis]

Tea time ༄˚⟡˖ ࣪☕️ ౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

[peasunflower]

Pancakes taste better with her. There's smth about her that makes even noisy foodcourts feel like home. Her warmth and softness, she feels like home. The timeless trust and gossip and the heart pouring and the feeling of safety. And I never have those pancakes without her. It used to be ice-teas and now it's pancakes.

But they have always tasted better with her.

[james-joyces-right-eyeball]

Favorite Books I Read in 2023

Not including rereads and in no particular order, here are the books I loved the most this year.

Titles & Authors, from top left to bottom:

Fluids by May Leitz

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

Valencia by Michelle Tea

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Summer by Edith Wharton

"The Echo & the Nemesis", "Life is No Abyss", "The Interior Castle", "Bad Characters", and "In the Zoo" by Jean Stafford

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Crash by J.G. Ballard

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde

Erasure by Percival Everett

Persuasion by Jane Austen

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Ghosts of my Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, & Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

Girl Flesh by May Leitz

Here's to a new year, full of great reading!

[bethanydelleman]

I recently finished Pride and Prejudice for the first time and I know it's a legit hot take but I never grew to like Darcy. Like, at all.

Legitimate.

I totally understand Darcy's redemption arc and I really appreciate him as a character, but no thank you. Give me a husband who can take a joke please. I like him well enough, but I'm not carving our names into a tree anytime soon. His personality is an acquired taste, like sauerkraut.

May I humbly suggest to you the best man in literature, Mr. Henry Tilney? He is a charming resident of Northanger Abbey.

However, if he is not your style, do not despair! Austen has eight flavours of hero to chose from; none of her leading (or secondary) men are quite the same. She has extrodinary breadth!

I hope you enjoyed your read regardless ❤️