tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1525724897783215069.post311423960376411294..comments2023-07-02T09:25:23.716-04:00Comments on A Wilderness Life: Pride and PrejudiceLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01926184833095262275noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1525724897783215069.post-11939563887185365262011-10-15T20:00:33.531-04:002011-10-15T20:00:33.531-04:00I've read it several times (although I prefer ...I've read it several times (although I prefer <i>Persuasion</i> and <i>Mansfield Park</i>), but tell me more about why I've done the right thing. :)<br /><br />The book can certainly be <b>read</b> as a romance (can't it?), and I think such a reading is valid, although Austen's books are much more than mere romances, and the romance element isn't what attracts me.<br /><br />I'm still buying the old saw, until you show me it's rusty. The novel is about women as much as men, it seems to me (there are at least a dozen female characters). And it seems to be about the <b>basis</b> for marriage more than about marriage as an actuality. For example, I think it is significant to the story that Lady Catherine de Bourgh "married down," but we're told very little about what her marriage was like, since the story opens with her as a widow.<br /><br />But that's all just saying I await further posts with interest.Radagasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15008107925553904609noreply@blogger.com