Tag: Austen
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July 31, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. For an introduction to the film, listen to Johnny Flynn’s “Queen Bee” from the movie Emma. I think that something about the practiced manner of public behavior attracts us yet today. Emma is the picture of etiquette in almost all instances. When she …
August 14, 2015 “Let Fame, which all hunt after in their Lives,/ Live register’d upon our brazen tombs,/ And so grace us in the disgrace of death:/ when spite of cormorant devouring time/ The endeavour of this present breath may buy/ That honor which shall bate his Scythe’s keen edge/ And make us heirs of …
