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How to Speak Like Jane Austen and Live Like Elizabeth Bennet: Your Guide to Livelier Language and a Lovelier Lifestyle
Can’t get enough of Pride or Prejudice in book or movie form? Captivated by Austen’s entertaining repartee and Elizabeth’s enlightened living? Do you despair at having to put down the novel or step away from the DVD?



Despair no more! How to Speak Like Jane Austen and Live Like Elizabeth Bennet – a delightfully inventive interpretation of all things Pride and Prejudice –

translates the language of Austen and the lifestyle of Elizabeth into easy-to-embrace guidelines for 21st century living, making it possible to talk like Jane and act like Elizabeth – anytime, anyplace.



Just in time for the 200th anniversary of the 1813 publication of the novel, faithful followers of Pride and Prejudice now have a way to bring the timeless eloquence of Jane Austen and the inspired enlightenment of Elizabeth Bennet into their everyday lives.



Much like Austen and Elizabeth, How to Speak Like Jane Austen and Live Like Elizabeth Bennet takes a sometimes lighthearted, sometimes serious, approach to the parlance and pace of Pride and Prejudice.



Part I, “How to Speak Like Jane Austen,” is an entertaining resource, translating 21st century words, phrases and sentiments into their Pride and Prejudice counterparts, making it easy to introduce the author’s language into contemporary conversation.

A more serious interpretation of Elizabeth’s lifestyle is contained in Part II, “How to Live Like Elizabeth Bennet,” which distills the heroine’s circumspect and circumscribed existence into simple precepts for modern living.

Part III, “What Would Lizzie Do?,” puts the enjoyment of the language and the inspiration of the lifestyle together in a lighthearted imagining of a more Austen-sounding and Elizabeth-acting way of life.



Whether you read Kaelyn Caldwell’s book from start to finish, or dip back and forth into portions that interest you most, How to Speak Like Jane Austen and Live Like Elizabeth Bennet offers fans a way to adopt Austen’s lively language and Elizabeth’s lovely lifestyle as their own.



CONTENTS

About the Book: How to Speak Like Jane Austen and Live Like Elizabeth Bennet

Author’s Preface: Pride and Prejudice: A Love Story

Introduction

Austen’s Livelier Language

Miss Elizabeth’s Lovelier Lifestyle

Elizabeth-Inspired Living

Part I: How to Speak Like Jane Austen

Basic Jane Speak: Vocabulary 101

Advanced Austen: Sentences and Such

Insider Austen: A Language All Her Own

Austen’s Ironies: The Ultimate Insider

As Jane Would Say: Quotable Quotations

Austen-Inspired Sayings: Things She Never Wrote (But Might Well Have Said)

Part II: How to Live Like Elizabeth Bennet

Be Circumspect

Cultivate a Balanced Sense of Self

Maintain a Happy Outlook

Mind Your Manners

Be Your Own Best Company

Allow for Leisure

Adopt a Literary Lifestyle

Keep Society in Perspective

Partner Up Wisely

Live Circumscribed

Stay at Home

Make Your Home Your Hobby

Walk Near Nature

Honor the Seasonality of Life

Entertain Easily

Vacation Simply

Take a Small-World View

Part III: What Would Lizzie Do?

Elizabeth-Inspired Doings

Afterword: Pride and Prejudice: The Sequel

About the Author





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