We had a splendid class today. Here's a picture of the sconefest, with Ms. Moore in the background. She provided her lovely China service to the class.
We then briefly discussed Austen's design in having perhaps the worst marriage in the novel (Lydia and Wickham's marriage) trigger the last two, good marriages in the novel, those between Jane and Bingley and Lizzy and Darcy. We bandied about a few ideas.
We then had two seniors do a dramatic reading of the argument between Lady Catherine and Elizabeth in Chapter 56. Though these young women are not in our class, they are huge fans of Austen and were key players in our drama program these past four years.
I took some video of the reading, which I'll try to upload tomorrow.
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