the sordid world of Jane Austen

[sergebroom]

Last week, Sue found an interesting photo from 1996's movie Emma for her blog entry about friends and lovers. It was interesting because the photo was from a French site, where Emma was referred to as an entremetteuse. One of the meanings of the word is intermediary, which I guess could apply to Emma's matchmaking activities. Another definition though is a tad less positive, as it describes someone who acts as the facilitator of a sexual liaison between two other parties. Have you ever seen the movie Gigi? It's about a 16-year-old girl being trained by her grandmother to become a man's mistress. Gigi's granny thus is an entremetteuse.

The sordid world of Jane Austen...

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[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

By the way, those Barbara Hambly mysteries sound interesting.

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

They are very yummy; I read about 5 of them last year.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Would you recommend reading them in the order in which they were written?

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

I am all out of order, and it doesn't bother me much. There is some character development over the series, (frex, the relationship between January's sister and her patron), but nothing from the later books spoils the earlier books.