Jane Austen's Girls

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Girls for a very long time have fallen in love with the female characters depicted in Jane's books.

We often find ourselves wondering what would Jane have to say about us? Are we more like quiet Mary from Persuasion or are we a little more forward like Elizabeth Bennet or Emma?

Jane has done a remarkable job at inspiring young girls to make a difference in not only their own homes but in society around them. However sadly, I think our culture is loosing the sweet innocence displayed in Jane's novels and the pretty feminine qualities that we find locked within the Bennet household. Though I believe Jane has won herself a place of honor that will not soon be forgotten, there is a possibility that more will admire, "the way she wrote," and forget what she wrote about: Young women ( who usually have much to learn) standing up for what is most precious to them, not always (mind you) doing an excellent job ( I think of Elizabeth's sever rebuke to Mr. Darcy) but at least ( if anything) not throwing in the towel when they've noticed failure on their part but instead picking up the needle and sewing back ( with their own hands) what they have torn apart.

I do so hope that girls today will not forget that God made them female for an infinitely good reason: Girls are needed, they are so very badly needed because more and more they are becoming extinct. We have girls looking like boys and stepping out from where God intended them to be and the result is broken hearts, broken dreams and broken lives. Elizabeth Bennet was still respectful to her mother, even when Mrs. Bennet was behaving foolishly, Emma listened to Mr. Knightly's reproof and all of Jane's girls learned ( by the last chapter) when it is good to speak and when it is best to be silent.

Let us try to make femininity ( that Jane was so fond of) more the fashion today, by how we talk, act and behave ourselves, so that if Jane knew us, we would be her next Elizabeth, Emma or Mary...shall we?