[HPforGrownups] HP and Jane Austen

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 17929

At 07:03 AM 4/30/01 +0000, Morag Traynor wrote:
> >... although one wonders if she [Jane] would approve of JKR at all.
>
>I'm quite sure she does, and has placed an order with the celestial delivery
>service for books 5, 6 & 7 ;)!

I agree.  More problematic is what Louisa May Alcott thinks
of Harry Potter.  She seems a bit ambivalent about fantasy:
In chapter 3 of _Little Men_ she likens fantasy to junk food,
then in chapter 4 she describes _Arabian Nights_ as one
of the "dear immortal stories that will delight children
for centuries to come."

Which is odd, since actually I think it's a bit easier to
fit Louisa's characters into Harry Potter than Jane's,
as I think I described in a past post, with Nat as Harry
Dan as Ron, etc.



                                                 -- Dave