I‘ve been re-watching the  BBC mini-series from the 1990’s of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I love it for many reasons, not least because I read feminine, feminist and female literature for my A-level English coursework, contrasting the characters in Austen, Atwood and Murdoch books, having a VHS study companion made light work of the task at hand. I particularly loved the way that in the adaptation Mrs Bennet has developed into an outrageous and exaggerated caricature from the book, whereas the not so subtle eyebrow raising from Elizabeth Bennet let’s us know that she is watching and judging all around her.

It made me wonder how Austen’s characters might behave in an online space or community. I think that Lydia would make the most use of selfie’s, Charlotte strikes me as the type of person who might post factual updates and I know that I would be muting Mr Collin’s pompous posts in a heartbeat. It’s curious isn’t it, to think about the cast of characters who comment or not, on our social world?, in episode 2 of my podcast I explain how this unfolds as anxiety around imagined audiences within the context of Imposter Phenomenon.

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