I feel like Anne Elliot
I've been teaching Austen's Persuasion this past week, and today I'm having my own Anne Elliot moment:
but Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way; --she was only Anne.
It's the convenience part of the quote above that I reference. One of my (many) cousins is getting married the very same day/hour/city of our wedding. I forsee a week of scuttling about by phone to find a new date/time/venue. I'm exhausted already.
cross-posted to my blog
but Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way; --she was only Anne.
It's the convenience part of the quote above that I reference. One of my (many) cousins is getting married the very same day/hour/city of our wedding. I forsee a week of scuttling about by phone to find a new date/time/venue. I'm exhausted already.
cross-posted to my blog