My guest this week is my beautiful daughter Ella. Ella just finished a semester at the University of Leicester, where she studied the novels of Jane Austen, and we have been talking nonstop about the books versus the movie adaptations, as well as feminism in Jane Austens books, and whether or not Harry Styles can smolder. It's a journey.
Host: Julie Strauss
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Guest: Ella Strauss
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Discussed in this episode:
1st Annual Kids/YA Episode when Ella told me about Kate Atkinson
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Clueless Movie
Bride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility Movie
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Here comes the smolder – from “Tangled”
Derek Zoolander’s “Blue Steel”
Here is the Mr. Darcy hand flex scene that all the kids are weirdly obsessed with
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird
Eve Ensler
Colleen Hoover
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
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