BFF 4 Eva!

It’s Female Friendship Week over at The Frisky.  What, you ask yourself, is Female Friendship Week all about?  Let’s take a look:

Besties, frenemies, sisters, and groups of gal pals.  Explore the joy, the sorrow, and the everything else of the female friendships in our lives.  Let’s face it, dudes are much less complicated creatures.  But they could never replace the ladies in our lives (The Frisky).

Ah, I love it when modern connections to the female homosocial and lesbian continuum found within MMMB drop into my lap without any effort on my behalf.  

Speaking of (literary) sisters, I’m going to take the opportunity to share an xkcd comic about Emily Dickinson, a Jane Austen PostSecret card, and the article “Jane Austen’s Well-Known Style Owed Much to Her Editor, Scholar Argues” from The Chronicle of Higher Education by Jennifer Howard.


From xkcd:

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From Post Secret (tumblr archive):

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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Jane Austen’s Well-Known Style Owed Much to Her Editor, Scholar Argues” by Jennifer Howard


Also, Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts?  Amazing.  Simply amazing.  What a beautiful and stunning example of digital humanities.  Now anyone with a computer, not just scholars with access to expensive databases and journals, can see Austen’s manuscripts, over 1,100 pages worth.  The site also allows you to view, side by side, published editions and Austen’s handwritten manuscripts.  And unlike the (Emily) Dickinson Electronic Archives, there aren’t entire sections subject to restricted access.


Enjoy.  


Works Cited:

Anonymous.  Jane Austen Is Better Than Sex.  Digital image.  PostSecret (Tumblr Archive). 16 June 2010.  Web.  25 Oct. 2010.  <http://postsecret.tumblr.com/post/704140943>.

Munroe, Randall.  The Carriage.  Digital image.  xkcd.  03 Sept. 2010.  Web.  25 Oct. 2010. <http://xkcd.com/788/>.