[AJames]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Obviously the wit and humour of Jane Austens classic story is beyond you lot.
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OK. Fair enough. Just please don't tell me "Sense and Sensibility" is going to be on next week...

As for the "wit and humour", next you'll subject us to her unpublished work "Lady Susan", where the reader is subjected to intricacies of literary motifs of feminine gossip and jealousy created in opinions in letter form.

Ie. As Lady Susan Vernon, if I recall; "You were mistaken, my dear Alicia, in supposing me fixed at this place for the rest of the winter: it grieves me to say how greatly you were mistaken, for I have seldom spent three months more agreeably than those which have just flown away. At present, nothing goes smoothly; the females of the family are united against me."

or the saucy Mr. de Courcy;

"What a woman she must be! I long to see her, and shall certainly accept your kind invitation, that I may form some idea of those bewitching powers which can do so much - engaging at the same time, and in the same house, the affections of two men, who were neither of them at liberty to bestow them--and all this without the charm of youth!"

Humour indeed!