{"id":1041,"date":"2004-01-27T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T15:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2004-01-27T10:11:27","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T15:11:27","slug":"pride-and-preju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/01\/pride-and-preju\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride and Prejudice Group Read: Introduction and Question Box for Chapters 1-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

The votes are in, and Pride and Prejudice<\/i> it shall be!
\nNow it’s time to get your copy of the book. It’s readily available at the bookstore (new or used), library, or even online<\/a>.
\nLet’s start reading, and discuss Chapters 1-6 at the end of next week (February 6 or thereabouts.) I’ll open each week’s discussion with a post, with discussion to follow in the comments box. I’ll be putting all posts in their own Group Read category, so they can be easily retrieved.
\nOne thing that’s been on my mind is how to handle those details of Jane Austen’s world that might be confusing to those new to her books — things like livings, precedence, reticules, shillings and pence, and so on. Some people are going to have books with extensive notes, but others might not.
\nThere are a lot of books out there that answer those kinds of background questions — for example, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew<\/i> by Daniel Pool. The Republic of Pemberley<\/a> is also a gold mine. (If you don’t like surprises, be warned; the RoP is also chock-full of plot giveaways.)
\nI also propose a weekly area for people to post their Pressing Questions about language, customs, “what’s happening” — that kind of thing. Please feel free to post any questions about Chapters 1-6 in this post’s comments box.
\nLet’s go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The votes are in, and Pride and Prejudice it shall be! Now it’s time to get your copy of the book. It’s readily available at the bookstore (new or used), library, or even online. Let’s start reading, and discuss Chapters 1-6 at the end of next week (February 6 or thereabouts.) I’ll open each week’s… Continue reading Pride and Prejudice Group Read: Introduction and Question Box for Chapters 1-6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-read","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}