Comments on: Pitchforks, Jane Austen and Me

By: mitzi

mitzi — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:35:10 +0000

Well said! These naysayers really need to get those bees out of their bonnets!

By: Steph from fangswandsandfairydust.com

Steph from fangswandsandfairydust.com — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:04:32 +0000

Your book has been recommended to me by one of my readers. Religious custom would have prevented a genteel woman from writing erotica under her own name but, seriously we’re nearly Victorians here only showing MUCH MUCH more cleavage. If I showed as much cleavage as a Regency or Georgian Heroine it would be deemed a wardrobe failure and I would be fined by the FCC.
A historian friend of mine says we see the past through Victorian glasses, or what we think is Victorian. But during this time, the vices were thrown into greater relief by the enforcing of virtue. The Victorians wrote some of the most incredible erotica. It is all the more standout because of the virtues for which it provides counterpoint. Imagine then the Regency when the Bingley’s didn’t go to court much, no doubt because of the depravity to be found there!
Mores are like a pendulum. We never would have had Victorians without the Regency, or more lately the Moral Majority and Right-wing without the 1960s and 1970s.
And, as far as the mash-up goes: that is a long established literary format. Think My Fair Lady.
People just need to calm down about this stuff.

NOW if the book isn’t good that is another issue; The difference between making love and f*@

By: Axie Barclay

Axie Barclay — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:21:33 +0000

I’ll definitely post the link as soon as it becomes available. I checked tonight but the review hasn’t been posted yet.

Cheers!

By: mitzi

mitzi — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:07:09 +0000

Thank you, that is so nice to hear! Can you send me a link to the review? I would appreciate it!

By: mitzi

mitzi — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:05:15 +0000

How odd! It must be overzealous (or a literary purist), as I use a very respectable web-hosting service!

By: Axie Barclay

Axie Barclay — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:11:57 +0000

As a huge JA fan and having reviewed Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts for Portland Book Review, I came away feeling you remained true to Ms. Austen’s vision and characters while modernizing the already steamy text and giving it a new depth for new readers. It’s funny, sexually exciting, and overall thoroughly entertaining. Just some words from this part of the peanut gallery. :p

By: KW

KW — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:56:54 +0000

Well Mitzi, the site advisor / security feature on my pc suggested there were ‘risky behaviours’ on your blog and I should think twice about visiting – so, somebody is certainly concerned about either Austen’s reputation as a purist or your vitriolic rants! .. personally, I say ‘well done’ .. and with your book in hand I’ll be looking forward to a few evenings at the card table .. {;o)

By: mitzi

mitzi — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:56:27 +0000

Interesting point. It does seem to have vanished. The English language and use of grammar etc is changing – and not necessarily for the better.

By: oatmeal girl

oatmeal girl — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:43:00 +0000

I came here after seeing your call for submissions to “Kingdoms of Desire” on the ERWA website. Then I read this phrase: “if she were alive today”. And gasped. My heart pounded. A woman who knows how to use the subjunctive! Sadly, that grammatical form is now nearly extinct in the US.

I think I’m in love.

o.g.

By: mitzi

mitzi — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:09:47 +0000

Well said!