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Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 6 a.m.

Today on The Literary Life, Cindy, Angelina and Thomas dig into chapters 11-17 of Jane Austen\u2019s Northanger Abbey. Today\u2019s conversation gets into the subtext surrounding what was expected of young ladies to be acceptable in society. A major theme in this book, and particularly in these chapters, is Catherine\u2019s learning to discern between what is simply appearance and what is reality. We learn even more in these chapters how inconstant and deceptive the Thorpes are, especially in contrast to the Tilneys.

Angelina highlights some of the scenes Austen uses to illustrate when it is right for Catherine to buck the rules of propriety as opposed to Isabella\u2019s impropriety at the wrong time. Thomas brings up the question of what reasons we have thus far to like Henry Tilney even though we do not know overly much about him yet. Cindy points out some of Austen\u2019s ideas on education and the similarities to Charlotte Mason\u2019s principles.

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Spring and Fall

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

to a young child

M\xe1rgar\xe9t, \xe1re you gr\xedeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Le\xe1ves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! \xe1s the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you w\xedll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
S\xf3rrow\u2019s spr\xedngs \xe1re the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It \xeds the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

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Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber

Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson

Assessments and Anticipations by William Ralph Inge

A Father\u2019s Legacy to His Daughters by John Gregory

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

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