{"id":18172,"date":"2013-01-09T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=18172"},"modified":"2013-01-08T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:16:38","slug":"the-observer-celebrates-jane-austens-10-best-characters-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/the-observer-celebrates-jane-austens-10-best-characters-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Observer Celebrates Jane Austen’s 10 Best Characters—in Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Apparently it’s the bicentenary of Pride & Prejudice<\/em><\/strong>—two hundred years: how amazing is that?<\/p>\n

And yes, I will put my hand up with all the other authors out there who would love Jane Austen’s longevity. \ud83d\ude09 Actually, I would also love to match her keen eye for the foibles and eccentricities of human nature, as well as her skill in presenting it all without “moral commentary.”<\/p>\n

I think the “10 Best Characters”—in pictures—selected by Austen biographer Paula Byrne<\/a> for The Observer<\/a> well reflects that keen eye. And no clues as to “who” is included: I think to properly appreciate you need to click through and check out the 10 characters for yourself.<\/p>\n

So without further ado—click to read The 10 Best Jane Austen Characters \u2013 in Pictures<\/a><\/h3>\n

But here’s a question for you: is this your ’10 Best’ as well, or is there another (or several) Austen characters you would prefer over those listed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently it’s the bicentenary of Pride & Prejudice—two hundred years: how amazing is that? And yes, I will put my hand up with all the other authors out there who would love Jane Austen’s longevity. \ud83d\ude09 Actually, I would also love to match her keen eye for the foibles and eccentricities of human nature, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18180,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172\/revisions\/18180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}