How would Jane Austen fit in with our modern #MeToo movement? It's an interesting question which led us, in this episode, to look at Jane Austen and the #MeToo, breaking it down into terms which make sense in her era: the context of feminist thought and sexual harassment in the late 18th and early 19th century. We discuss the shockingly unequal legal framework in which women lived, early feminists and empowered women such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Caroline Herschel, and then go on to discuss incidents in Jane's life and novels that illustrate #MeToo moments.
Find out what Mr Collins got wrong, what Fanny got right, and who was the novelist's narcissistic sociopath!
We go on to award our Lizzy and Lady Catherine of the month and review Janice Hadlow's The Other Bennet Sister (Pan).
Links mentioned are:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/jane-austen-family-slavery-essay-devoney-looser/
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Jane-Austen-the-Secret-Radical-by-Helena-Kelly-author/9781785781889
https://janeaustens.house
Season 5 Ep. 2 - What would Jane do...about the Hell Fire Club and other Secret Societies?
Season 5 Ep. 1 - What would Jane do...about Mr Darcy's Wet Shirt?
Season3 Ep. 13 What would Jane Do...about AI?
Season 3 Ep. 12 Jane Austen 'Who do you think you are?' - meet her fifth great-niece, Caroline Knight
Season 3 Ep.10 Jane Austen and First Impressions
Season 3 Ep. 9 Jane Austen and Christmas Presents
Season 3 Ep 8 Jane and the Darcy Effect (leadership matters)
Season 3 Ep. 7 Jane Austen and Adaptations (Persuasion episode!)
Season 3 Ep. 6 Jane Austen and War
Season 3 Ep. 5 Jane Austen and bookclubs
Season 3 Ep. 4 Jane Austen and Masculinity
Season 3 Ep. 3 Jane Austen and What to Wear to the Christmas Party?
Season 3 Ep. 2 Jane Austen and Oversharing
Season 3 Ep. 1 Jane Austen on location in Bath
Season 2 Ep. 8 Jane Austen and Sport
Season 2 Episode 7 Jane Austen and Love Island
Season 2 Episode 5 Jane Austen and Childhood
Season 2 Episode 4 Jane Austen and Friendship
Season 2 Episode 3 Jane Austen and Sex (the Bridgerton episode!)
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