Quotes
"Oh, single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!"
Mrs. Bennet
Catherine
Lady
Pemberley
Darcy (and later, Lizzie)
The transformation of goods, services, ideas and people into objects of trade.
Commodification
The original title of Pride and Prejudice was going to be this.
First Impressions
"To walk three miles, or four miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! what could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum."
Caroline Bingley
Jane Bennet
Miss
Longbourn
The Bennet family
The utility of a thing. What it can be used for.
Use value
This famous 90s movie was based on a novel by Jane Austen (Emma). As if!
Clueless
"...I am resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."
Elizabeth Bennet
Collins
Mr.
Rosings
Lady Catherine
The ability of a thing to impress others.
Sign value
Number of Jane Austen husbands
Zero (she never married.)
"The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this."
Collins
William Lucas (father of Charlotte)
Sir
Hunsford, Parsonage
Collins and Charlotte Lucas
A belief system
Ideology
Name for a Jane Austen fan
"Janeite"
"And we mean to treat you all," added _____, "but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there." Then, showing her purchases—"Look here, I have bought this bonnet. I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not."
Lydia Bennet
Fitzwilliam
Colonel
Gracechurch Street, London
The Gardiners
(from Tyson) "Economic power therefore always includes social and political power as well, which is why many Marxists today refer to _______________ [...] when talking about the class structure."
Austen died at this age.
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