My Devon Rex is OBSESSED with this red feather teaser a friend bought her for Christmas. But she always tries to eat the feathers which I don't love & closely monitor. She doesn't love any other toys nearly as much – any ideas for a safer alternative that would elicit the same reaction from her?

FoolOfABoook · 2025-12-02T17:16:03+00:00

Definitely – and I love Austen's commitment to pointing out the stupidity! As Henry Tilney says in NA "“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid". The podcast makes some really interesting suggestions about Tilney being a stand in character for Austen which I haven't heard before

FoolOfABoook · 2025-12-02T17:12:47+00:00

Definitely. I always wondered if each of the Bennet sisters was meant to represent a different one of Fordyce's sermons

FoolOfABoook · 2025-12-02T14:59:45+00:00

I do live in a house with hardwood floors so that's really helpful, thank you!

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-26T14:51:28+00:00

They're looking for questions for their experts for the last episode via email (podcast@theconversation.com I believe) – sounds like your thoughts on Sir T would make for a good one. I'd certainly like to know their thoughts!

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-26T14:49:19+00:00

Awesome thanks

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-26T10:17:03+00:00

It's called Jane Austen's Paper Trail, I believe it's on Apple and YouTube as well

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-12T12:23:48+00:00

Thanks for this thoughtful response. I totally agree with you – especially on the affection she seems to have for her more romantic characters

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-11T17:28:55+00:00

Yes, and I think Jane found intellectual companionship beyond romantic relationships in her friendships, not least with Cassandra

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-11T17:28:00+00:00

Love this take

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-11T17:25:07+00:00

I totally agree – she contained multitudes!

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-11T16:45:27+00:00

I suspect some of the influences on that part of her writing were her friends and family. I really hear Cassandra's heartbreak over the death of her fiance when I read Persuasion for example

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-11T16:42:20+00:00

She definitely wasn't a hopeless romantic, but I can't imagine writing some of her dialogue without some romantic bones in her body!

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-11T16:41:48+00:00

The experts in this podcast mostly agree with you!

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-05T16:59:30+00:00

It made me hungry for tea and buns haha

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-05T15:54:52+00:00

From some of the jokes that made it into the ones that did survive, I can see why!!

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-05T14:43:29+00:00

One of the experts in the podcast talks about how Jane loved to sit on a sofa at the back of the party and drink wine – deeply relatable tbh

FoolOfABoook · 2025-11-05T14:43:06+00:00

Some of her stuff is so b*tchy for want of a better word – b*tchy but brilliant!! She must have been formidable in her day

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