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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
205 followers · 108 posts · Server h-net.social@kityates Kit, please just ignore if no interest / no time, I really appreciate the invaluable commentary from you & #IndependentSage - but I have been intrigued to discover the resonances from 1796 when the 21-yr old #JaneAusten started writing #PrideAndPrejudice, & how her characters encapsulate perspectives dividing #UKpolitics then & now.
🧵 ending at https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109556329817289341
#LivingIncome #LivingWage #UKgov #NHS #nurses #doctors #PoorLaws #NHSpay #UKstrikes #solidarity #SupportNHS 💙
#IndependentSage #JaneAusten #prideandprejudice #ukpolitics #livingincome #livingwage #ukgov #nhs #nurses #doctors #poorlaws #nhspay #ukstrikes #solidarity #supportnhs
Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?
Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109556329817289341
#JaneAusten #UKpolitics
#WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
#EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
#CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice
#rabbithole #britain #minimumwage #welfarebenefits #fediverse #JaneAusten #ukpolitics #williampitt #poorlaws #edmundburke #catherinedebourgh #characternames #prideandprejudice #tories
Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
205 followers · 108 posts · Server h-net.social@Tony_Meredith Thanks for drawing my attention to the relevance of #PrideAndPrejudice to #UKpolitics today. 225 years ago #Britain had a #Tory #PrimeMinister pushing for a fairer society with a #LivingIncome & an expansion of #WelfareBenefits. He was supported by many enlightened landowners but undermined by proponents of low taxes, #TrickleDownEconomics, & #charity. All astutely observed by #JaneAusten!
#WilliamPitt #PoorLaws #FairPay #MinimumWage
#Edmund Burke #CatherineDeBourgh
#SupportNHS
#prideandprejudice #ukpolitics #britain #tory #primeminister #livingincome #welfarebenefits #trickledowneconomics #charity #JaneAusten #williampitt #poorlaws #fairpay #minimumwage #edmund #catherinedebourgh #supportnhs
Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
205 followers · 108 posts · Server h-net.social@Tony_Meredith I also found 'The Comedy of Social Distinctions in Pride and Prejudice' by John McAleer which explains that Jane Austen's great-grandmother was a Brydges & descended from Lionel Duke of Clarence - so as it happens #JaneAusten was a direct descendant of Elizabeth de Burgh #LadyOfClare. However the evidence seems compelling that Jane's #CharacterNames were directly related to political issues of her day. She started writing in Oct1796, just as Pitt proposed reforming the #PoorLaws.
#JaneAusten #LadyofClare #characternames #poorlaws
Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
205 followers · 108 posts · Server h-net.social@Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.
I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+Prejudice+and+poor+laws.-a0370031582
- fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!
#edmundburke #earlfitzwilliam #prideandprejudice #poorlaws #ukpolitics #JaneAusten #fairpay #minimumwage #safetynet #supportnhs