Time for some Jane Austen. Can I “persuade” you to take a gentle peek into Anne Elliot’s email account.
More from the Austen pantheon: Mr. Darcy, Catherine Morland, Elizabeth Bennet, Elinor Dashwood.
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“Of course I mean his jaw…” LOL!!
LOVE the starred e-mail. Nice touch!
Thanks Jen: it’s great when people pick up on the little touches!
Love doesnt meant to be have a sex, bt we need only a feeling.
Lovely touches throughout. I think my favorites are Mary’s first three emails in rapid succession and the thank you from Admiral Croft for the carraige driving DVD. Oh and the Amazon recommendation! Very good!
My personal favorite is the adoption agency email and Mary’s second email about Charles saying she would be out!
Highly amusing!! Well done, indeed.
I could never be clever enough to make up something like this myself, so I hate to find fault, but aren’t the two from Mary Musgrove about little Charles and the party out of order? Seems like they should be right above her other three. Or maybe you aren’t referring to the specific incident, just portraying Mary’s typical motherly behavior. =)
Hi Diane!
As you surmise, it wasn’t intended to refer to the specific incident in the book but to her general attitude. Some of the literary inboxes (especially the Shakespeare ones) do try and “tell the story”, but this one is more general.
Oh gosh! Can Henrietta & Louisa please send me pics of CW in uniform? Must see! Persuasion is my Austen fave and I salute you, Sir, for you knowledge in Austen works. Most guys wouldn’t care. And, much as I would like to deny it, I applaud you for reflecting how the novel has nothing going on between Anne & CW till the last chapter.
One you oughta include, forwarded from Sir Walter, of the Gowlands e-newsletter, some pithy subject line like “check out the article on freckles on page 3″ or similar!