By Sandie Byrne
Who owns, who buys, who provides, and who notices gadgets is often major in Austen's writing, putting characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions seems to be on the importance of items in Austen's significant novels, fragments, and juvenilia.
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To paint a pair of screens would have taken time as well as skill, and even Fanny Dashwood acknowledges their merit. The attitude to the screens adopted by the hosts and various guests at the John Dashwoods’ dinnerparty clearly demonstrates the agenda of each. John Dashwood uses them to bring Elinor’s accomplishment to the notice of Col. Brandon, whom he wishes Elinor to marry; Mrs Ferrars, once she knows who painted them, uses the expression of minimum compliment required by decorum, and that prefaced by a nondescript grump which indicates that it is hollow, to demonstrate her disapprobation of the woman she believes has designs on her elder son.
During the lifetime of her husband it has probably been at his disposal, though the money may have been settled on her on the occasion of her marriage. , which Mrs Dashwood optimistically Sense and Sensibility: Giving and Taking 39 thinks of as £500 (I p. 18 This would leave very little to be put aside for the girls’ dowries, though it does allow them to keep one male and two female servants. The difference between giving from generosity and giving from a sense of social obligation or for appearance’s sake is illustrated with economy in a phrase about Sir John and his wife: ‘The Middletons lived in a style of equal hospitality and elegance,’ and elaborated in a subsequent paragraph: Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the elegance of her table, and of all her domestic arrangements; and from this kind of vanity was her greatest enjoyment in any of their parties [...
23 Even were those two extracts to establish Austen’s personal taste, this is to forget that the ring could well have been a present, especially as turquoise is a birthstone for December, Austen’s birthday month, and perhaps, if the box is original, a gift from Henry Austen, since it comes from a London jeweller. The extent to which Austen’s brothers understood and followed the taste of either sister can only be conjectured. Some possessions tell us more about their owners than others. 27 The dispossession of Farmer Meanwell and the orphaning of his daughter Margery, Margery’s loss of all but one shoe, the donation of a pair of shoes by a benevolent parson, Margery’s improbable job title of ‘trotting tutoress’, and her rise to respectability, marriage and a reunion with her brother could have been a model for the pastiche stories of Austen’s juvenilia.
