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A Trip Through English History

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Facts, pictures, and musing from the history of England.
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Just opened Northanger Abbey for the first time, and I'm loving the tone it sets, but goddamn:

"[Catherine's father was] a very respectable man, though his name was Richard..."

So we've been spending a few chapters with this lady who keeps going on and on about her clothes and nothing else, and it's like Fine, boring lady, but then her son rocks up and this is the first thing he says to his mother:

"Ah, mother! how do you do?" said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand: "where did you get that quiz of a hat, it makes you look like an old witch?"

BRUH. Your mother has ONE INTEREST, and you spiked it into the ground with surgical precision. What a great way to instantly encapsulate this guy's character.

Mansplaining, brought to you by Jane Austen:

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance. A misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can.
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[t]hough to the larger and more trifling part of the [male] sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance.
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