Jane Austen & The Case For Good Old-Fashioned Love
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Have you opened up a teen magazine recently? The headlines are flooded with frightening celebrity gossip—from Snooki’s pregnancy out of wedlock to Rihanna’s rekindled abusive relationship with Chris Brown. The examples of love in today’s society are hardly the model most parents would like for their teenaged daughters. Enter Jane Austen! In her new book, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Author Elizabeth Kantor, reveals how Jane Austen can still teach young women everything they need to know about dating, love, and relationships.
“Women in Jane Austen’s era were experts in love the way women today are experts in finance, law, or medicine,” says Kantor. “It was their job not just to marry, but to marry well. Except you’ll find their definition of ‘marrying well’ was much more fulfilling than our definition today.”
When it comes to finding love these days, the emphasis is placed in all the wrong places—on wearing the right clothes and makeup, following the new fad diets, and going to the newest exercise class. A young woman’s search for love has been turned into a billion-dollar industry.
But as Kantor proves, these things are all misguided or useless when looking for Mr. Right. In The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Kantor teaches women how to navigate the modern-day minefields of dating, love, relationships, and sex. By following the examples set forth by Jane Austen heroines—and steering clear of the mistakes of Austen’s failed characters—Kantor reveals the path to lifelong love and true happiness.
The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After gives young women the road map to finding and keeping their own Mr. Darcy by:
- Teaching them to rethink what they are looking for in a long-term relationship
- Through the women of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility, showing women what works and what doesn’t—and believe it or not, “the rules” haven’t changed that much
- Using the scoundrels and jerks in Austen’s novels to prove character flaws haven’t really changed much in 200 years—but the way women deal with them has
With graduation right around the corner, give your daughter the best gift you can give—a practical roadmap for happiness. Let The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After change your daughter’s mind about finding not only love, but more importantly, happily ever after.
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