tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post3357669187712935782..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: A good idea. By Jan NeedleKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-18154916542175864912015-04-16T10:48:00.946+01:002015-04-16T10:48:00.946+01:00Congratulations on the Kindle Single! I agree that...Congratulations on the Kindle Single! I agree that Austen was tough and if you read her letters she's quite raunchy in some ways and very direct about things! She wasn't untouched by the horrors as eg she knew the widow of the guillotined cousin, and she knew plenty of people who died horribly as did everyone at that time (childbirth etc) to say nothing of her beloved sister Cassandra's fiance tragically dying of yellow fever in the tropics while they stitched her trousseau at home. Love is as important as war if not more, so you can't say she chose something more trivial. People then didn't dwell on bad stuff because it happened all the time and you had to get on with it. Just as people in WW2 didn't go on about the horrors but went dancing instead.Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-52795966875347942652015-04-15T19:22:13.396+01:002015-04-15T19:22:13.396+01:00Kindle Single? Brilliant. Well done, mate. Julia, ...Kindle Single? Brilliant. Well done, mate. Julia, I think Jane was pretty tough-minded and would never pretend that awful things didn't exist. Though through her brothers she had a proxy contact with horrors, she hadn't actually been there to see them, so why go to the trouble of trying to imagine them? Another cool Austen choice. In these terrible days, I can see her point.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-55330134368065594022015-04-15T13:55:06.963+01:002015-04-15T13:55:06.963+01:00Congratulations on your book being selected as a K...Congratulations on your book being selected as a Kindle single, Jan. Keep us posted!Mari Biellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14221256993468150226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-60637541092690268922015-04-15T13:33:46.873+01:002015-04-15T13:33:46.873+01:00Really pleased about your Kindle single. Many cong...Really pleased about your Kindle single. Many congrats! My good friend Richard Woodman is writing for Endeavour now. I think.julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-52371372960306727562015-04-15T13:31:34.243+01:002015-04-15T13:31:34.243+01:00Yet at the same time that all this Nelson / Napole...Yet at the same time that all this Nelson / Napoleon business was going on, there was Jane Austen writing her novels which are doing their level best to persuade the rural gentry to treat each other in a considerate, sensitive, CIVILISED manner. With two brothers in the Navy, a third who watched his starving soldiers being shot by firing squad and a <br />much-loved cousin whose husband was guillotined was she keeping the horrors at bay or pretending that they didn't exist? I suppose its a tribute to our bonkersness that you can be considering actual hangings drawings and quarterings whilst taking gentle care of frail oldies. It's an odd place, the mind.<br />julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-51755738228811505292015-04-15T10:16:52.716+01:002015-04-15T10:16:52.716+01:00Great post, Jan - and congratulations on the Kindl...Great post, Jan - and congratulations on the Kindle Single! Hope you sell a million.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.com