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Alice Salisbury @alicesalisburyj
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Jan 15, 2023
Mansfield Park. Read it as a teen and loathed every character. Re-reading it in my 40s I realised it is about the niaivety of youth; the characters are only sympathetic once you realise how young they are. Not something I could see as a teen… or would have wanted to be told
Phil Treagus-Evans @philtreagus
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Jun 23, 2019
- Curated in THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS ON FEMINISM
Forget the period costume drama presentation of Austen and focus on the central character of Fanny Price: a young woman who learns to think for herself and withstand the force of rich and powerful men. An object lesson in the getting not just of wisdom but of agency; yes, there is a conventional happy ending but it is how it is achieved that is important.