Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for February 20, 2011
Transcript:
Stone Soup by Jan Eliot Holly: Mrs. Long says Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down Monday in a chaise and four..." Holly: GROAN Gramma Evie: "Pride and Prejudice"? My favorite!! Gramma Evie: Young women of limited financial means trying to make their way in a world that offers them very few options... Gramma Evie: You know, Jane Austen was way ahead of her time in depicting equality of the sexes... Holly: FINE. I'll read the dang book. Holly: "...to see the place, and was so much delighted...that he is to take possession before Michaelmas." Holly: Wait. There's a MOVIE?? Gramma Evie: Sure. Why?
The movie was actually pretty good, but the book was very hard to read… Jane Austen was very wordy when describing things.