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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 8h

'We never had any governess.' 'No governess! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education.' #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'That is very strange. But I suppose you had no opportunity. Your mother should have taken you to town every spring for the benefit of masters.' 'My mother would have had no objection, but my father hates London.' #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'Do you draw?' 'No, not at all.' 'What, none of you?' 'Not one.' #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why did not you all learn? You ought all to have learned. The Miss Webbs all play, and their father has not so good an income as your's. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death, I will not be the executioner. R3 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word; But now thy beauty is proposed my fee, My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak. R3 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up. R3 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'Do your sisters play and sing?' 'One of them does.' #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Do you play and sing, Miss Bennet?' 'A little.' 'Oh! then -- some time or other we shall be happy to hear you. Our instrument is a capital one, probably superior to -- You shall try it some day.' #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To be brief, when I quitted Barton last #October -- but this will give you no idea -- I must go farther back. #JaneAusten #SenseAndSensibility Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line. It was not thought necessary in Sir Lewis de Bourgh's family. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Elizabeth felt all the impertinence of her questions, but answered them very composedly. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I dined upon Goose yesterday - which I hope will secure a good Sale of my 2d Edition. #JaneAusten #Letters 12 Oct 1813 JA ws thinking of the proverb: 'If you eat goose on #Michaelmas Day you will never want for money all the year round.' 11 Oct ws old Michaelmas Day. (D Le Faye) Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She was able to visit Edward and his wife in their Parsonage by #Michaelmas, and she found in Elinor and her husband, as she really believed, one of the happiest couple in the world. #JaneAusten #SenseAndSensibility Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Michaelmas came; and now Anne's heart must be in Kellynch again. A beloved home made over to others; all the precious rooms and furniture, groves, and prospects, beginning to own other eyes and other limbs! #JaneAusten #Persuasion Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He is to take possession before #Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She addressed a variety of questions to Maria and Elizabeth, but especially to the latter, of whose connexions she knew the least, and who, she observed to Mrs Collins, was a very genteel, pretty kind of girl. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great Lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

She inquired into Charlotte's domestic concerns familiarly and minutely, and gave her a great deal of advice as to the management of them all; told her how everything ought to be regulated in so small a family as her's. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There was little to be done but to hear Lady Catherine talk, which she did without any intermission till coffee came in, delivering her opinion on every subject in so decisive a manner as proved that she was not used to have her judgment controverted. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Elizabeth was ready to speak whenever there was an opening, but she was seated between Charlotte and Miss De Bourgh -- the former of whom was engaged in listening to Lady Catherine, and the latter said not a word to her all dinner-time. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lady Catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration, and gave most gracious smiles, especially when any dish on the table proved a novelty to them. The party did not supply much conversation. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He carved, and ate, and praised with delighted alacrity; and every dish was commended, first by him and then by Sir William, who was now enough recovered to echo whatever his son in law said, in a manner which Elizabeth wondered Lady Catherine could bear. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. 2H6 2.4 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping. AC 5.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. S 73 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned. S 104 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. M 5.3 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing greater. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The dinner was exceedingly handsome, and there were all the servants and all the articles of plate which Mr Collins had promised. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen Mr & Mrs C & their guests were invited 2 dinner only when LC hd no guests of her own --- things get a bit mixed up here 😊

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When, after examining the mother, in whose countenance and deportment she soon found some resemblance of Mr Darcy, she turned her eyes on the daughter, she could almost have joined in Maria's astonishment at her being so thin, and so small. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

She was not rendered formidable by silence; but whatever she said was spoken in so authoritative a tone as marked her self-importance. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lady Catherine was a tall, large woman, with strongly marked features, which might once have been handsome. Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Her ladyship, with great condescension, arose to receive them; and as Mrs Collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduction should be her's, it was performed in a proper manner. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. AYLI 2.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. MV 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing. MAAN 2.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It pass your patience and mine to endure her loud alarums. TOTS 2.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. AYLI 2.7 #ShakespeareSunday

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