Jan 15, 2013 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Britain’s Three Kingdoms: How Many Has America?

This is not a trick question. Britain is of course comprised of four ancient kingdoms united since 1707; Wales, Scotland, England and (now Northern) Ireland. But in a far more meaningful and dangerous sense it contains only three and America may suffer from the same problem. Bear with me, please, for gay marriage is only [...]

Matchmaking and Imagined Sentiments: Jane Austen’s Emma

By Mitchell Kalpakgian|2018-11-21T14:41:11-06:00January 15th, 2013|Categories: Jane Austen, Marriage|Tags: 1CM, Mitchell Kalpakgian|

What do matchmakers know that eludes the common man? What does the common man know that escapes the matchmakers? Austen’s novel Emma shows that true romance originates from equality of social background and education, compatibility of temperaments, similarity of moral ideals and manners, natural attraction based on reason and feeling, and mutual admiration. Matchmaking ignores [...]