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  1. What about Mrs Bennet and her need to get her daughter’s married and the options open to a gentleman’s daughter then and now? That is two questions in one Maria
    Really enjoying reading your blog thank you

  2. Wonderful that you shared Austen with the English class! Another question- How unusual was it for a woman like Elizabeth to turn down a proposal from a man of Mr Darcy’s standing?

  3. I would have loved to have been in that class !
    I guess none of the edits of the era was that women couldnt/shouldn’t bank for themselves .
    Fact or fiction?

    Congrats on a job well gone! Hope the cold is gone and you’re feeling better!!

    • The issue about women banking for themselves revolved around whether or not she was married and a legal ‘person’ in her own right. We touched on that a little–you should have seen the girls’ reactions! They were not impressed with the notion of ‘coverture’. Thanks Carol!

  4. How wonderful!! That’s the one thing I miss this year: I”m teaching all online classes and have no classroom time at all. I also taught at university and then started homeschooling, but I quickly was drafted into teaching the high school writing classes at our home school “Class Day” co-op (about 100 families). This is the first year I haven’t been teaching Class Day since 1997, and I really miss it despite only teaching once class every two weeks with 18 meetings per year.

    I would have so enjoyed seeing the students’ eyes light up as the various pieces of the puzzle fell into place. That’s my favorite part of classroom teaching!!

    Thanks for sharing the lovely time you had teaching the backdrop of Austen!!

    Warmly,
    Susanne 🙂

  5. Love this! So happy you had a good experience. When I think about the story, I often wonder about Caroline Bingley – why was she acting as her brother’s hostess? Why did he need one? And why did people come to stay with people for months at a time!

  6. My husband always takes to task the “lazy” men living only off others (ie gentlemen) and I’d like for the kids to understand the world and how agriculture and land were the “currency” of the day to an extent. Every time I try to explain it, he relates it to today

  7. I agree with Ann that exploring how few options the ladies had back in Austen’s days would be interesting. Did anyone bring up that she didn’t use her name when first publishing? And all the need for a chaperone – the teens today would be mortified to have someone hanging around to watch and listen when they are with their girlfriend or boyfriend. Thank for sharing. Hope you got over your cold quickly.

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