Some rich girl's courting rituals in the early 1800's. All dialogue must be spoken thoroughly unnaturally, stiff and formal, no matter how emotions simmer underneath because of the way someone placed their teacup and eyed your favorite beau. They were standard soap operas before pulp fiction, radio, movies, TV, and "reality" shows.
Jane Austen's books are for the most part satire of the sorts of novels you're imagining. The Bronte sisters' novels were variously seen as against the norm of the time, and often border on the gothic or the bizarre. I feel like you've just seen some screenshot from a period drama??
You're right. I forgot all about that one. It wasn't considered a major work and it was epistolary, but it was a novel and she wrote it, so it should be included on the list.
Jane Austen had the talent of fixating you to literature .That through her i have come to understand the life and style of people of her time .Which believe in the regency era?
In the third year of my degree, I wrote an essay on Austen's irrelevance to the modern reader instead of having to read yet another of her novels. My professor agreed to allow me to do it at the beginning of the unit with the agreement that I would have to read the book and write a paper on it if she didn't give me an "A" or better. A+, didn't have to read Northanger Abbey :)
Some rich girl's courting rituals in the early 1800's. All dialogue must be spoken thoroughly unnaturally, stiff and formal, no matter how emotions simmer underneath because of the way someone placed their teacup and eyed your favorite beau. They were standard soap operas before pulp fiction, radio, movies, TV, and "reality" shows.
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey