Jane Austen herself was born on December 16, 1775. What’s your favorite Austen novel?
Also born on December 16th: Noel Coward (1896, playwright), Arthur C. Clarke (1917, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey), and Marie Hall Ets (1895, author of many children’s picture books including Gilberto and the Wind and Nine Days to Christmas).
Today is also Beethoven’s Birthday (1770). Will you be celebrating the birth of Schroeder’s favprote composer, and if so, how? I think I’ll play some of Beethoven’s more famous compositions and play guess the composer with the urchins.
Beethoven and Jane Austen could have met (same time period), but I would imagine that they didn’t. Wouldn’t that have been an interesting meeting? The Observant Writer meets the Grumpy Genius.
Links:
Krakovianka on re-reading Jane Austen.
Does Jane Austen Really Have a Christian Worldview?
Jane Austen, Not Explicitly Christian But a Moral Universe.
The Jane Austen Society of North America 2007 Essay Contest.