A Jane Austen Wedding
N spite of Jane Austen’s real delight in society she could keep an eye cocked for amusing twists of character, for a delicate situation, for the petty snobbery that was rife among the gentlefolk she knew; and for all these things she had a pretty ironical wit. Listen to this description of a wedding::
"It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed; the two bridesmaids were duly inferior; her father gave her away, her mother stood with salts in her hand, expecting to be agitated; her aunt tried to cry, and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant. Nothing could be objected to when it came under the discussion of the
_ wes neighbourhood, except that the carriage which conveyed the bride and the bridegroom and Julia from the church door to Sotherton was the same chaise which Mr. Rushworth had used fot a twelve-month before. In everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the strictest investigation. -- (Miss Margaret Johnston, "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Jane Austen," 2YA, November 16.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 5
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180A Jane Austen Wedding New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 5
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