2013 marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. To celebrate, the royal mail released yesterday six stamps, each depicting a scene from one of Austen's novels - Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
Austen's novels have always provided an insight to and opinion on society, both its merits and its flaws. One of the overriding themes, though, is social hierarchy and so, perhaps tenuously - when trying to think what on earth I could offer to this blog post aside from the pretty pictures - I thought that stamps were a pretty apt medium. Stamps, after all, clearly have a hierarchy... I mean First Class stamps wouldn't dare be seen wondering arm in arm with a 20p... postal suicide...
Further to that, if you live in Steventon near Basingtsoke, where Jane Austen was born, or Chawton in Hampshire, where she lived towards the end of her life, any letters you post will be graced with the quote, "Do anything rather than marry without affection".
Further to that, if you live in Steventon near Basingtsoke, where Jane Austen was born, or Chawton in Hampshire, where she lived towards the end of her life, any letters you post will be graced with the quote, "Do anything rather than marry without affection".
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