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Love your choice of authors. It shows your depth and breath of your knowledge of master works of literature. I am so jealous! Francisco.

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I too love these two authors. I recently reread Northanger Abbey and I go beck to Emma often. I go back to Austen like so many others do. I gave her entire collection to my granddaughter and she's now reading all of them and adores her and reads her deeply --and in the latter book, published posthumously my granddaughter and I discussed her sophisticate satire of the gothic novel. She's just 13. Wonderful to discover these authors early, introduce them to others and then revisit.

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Great descriptions! I read Middlemarch a year or so ago and was blown away. Looking forward to a reread or diving into her other works. Fan of JA as well. My wife got me interested in her with P&P and I've been working my way through her collection. Emma is on my list for this year.

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Mar 26, 2023·edited Mar 27, 2023Liked by Mike Goodenow Weber

Although I have always been a writer in one form or another I have never been a great reader. Jane Austen yes, and fav TV Mr. Darcy is Colin Firth by far. George Eliot is an author yet to know I will search for her work. Any reads available free online? Now Mike, I have three novels here you might search. My Antonia by Willa Cather. Her discription of landscapes are like oil paintings and if I could create on canvas ..well. Only A Fisherman's Daughter by Anastasia English lovely read. I read it twice and that's saying something. Best of Robert Service is another. The first book I ever read through to the end was Johnathan Livingston Seagull and I traveled with it everywhere and read it again and again. You may chuckle when you see the size of it, but that was the book. I should mention the great O J Mitchell's (spx) 'Who has seen the Wind' He has inspired a longing to see the great Saskatchewan prairie. Northern America writers are overlooked and there quite a few emerging from Newfoundland 😊

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This reminds me: I have a lot of catching up to do with the British. Though it took time to settle in, I liked Silas Marner. He was a character who not only made it easy to empathize with, but who you learned something from in the process. If that makes sense.

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Mike Goodenow Weber

Both grea

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Thanks for sharing this! I've started Emma by Jane Austen but that will be my first work of hers. I think Pride & Prejudice might be next!

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Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors. I've read all her novels; Emma is my favorite, with Sanditon high up on the list. I've yet to read Middlemarch, but plan to. My favorite novelist is a contemporary of George Eliot, but not widely known: Elizabeth Stoddard. I highly recommend her novel, The Morgesons.

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Mar 30, 2023Liked by Mike Goodenow Weber

Agreed. I read Middlemarch last year, and it resonated a lot with me, in a number of different ways. Coincidentally, I read Pride and Prejudice afterwards, at long last. There are definitely strong parallels between the protagonist women characters in both novels. I have other novels of both authors in my (long) to-read list. If only we all had more time to read leisurely!

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