Tag: Jane Austen
Making Beautiful Music in Fiction
I exercise to music. Don’t we all? Relieves the boredom of repetitive motions. Sometimes, of course, music…
Inner-Directed Heroines: Paying Homage to Austen and Gaskell
I sometimes feel like an anachronism because I prefer inner-directed characters. Characters I’m more likely to find…
No Broad Shoulders? No Romance.
I nearly zapped a historical romance out of my iPad in exasperation, while reading it one evening….
A Large Income Is The Best Recipe For Happiness — Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. So says Jane Austen—like…
Realism in Romance Novels?
Romance novels are escapist fare. We read them to be entertained. Or to have a few delicious…