Roaring Austen!

Hello, fellow Janeites! Today feels like the right time to start this new endeavor, and to kick off The Twenties, I thought a '20s themed post would be fitting. Today I am indulging myself by imagining some of our favorite Austen characters finding their niche in the Roaring Twenties….

Catherine Morland - obsessed with going to the nickelodeon. Swooned at her first talkie.

Emma Woodhouse - scandalized her father by getting a wireless radio. Annoyed that Miss Bates talks over it on every visit. 

Anne Elliot - gives her father and Lady Russell the vapors by joining the suffragette movement. 

Fanny Price - joins a temperance league after jazz-crazed flappers come to town and ply her family with their loose morals.

Mary Crawford - devotee of Coco Chanel, and the first of her friends to sport a loose fitting Breton top paired with pearls.

Elinor Dashwood - is tired of convincing her mother and sisters that they cannot afford a motorcar. Becomes a secretary for the local chapter of suffragettes, to Mrs. Jennings’ infinite dismay.

Marianne Dashwood - dedicates herself to becoming the next Virginia Woolf, and claims she only attends the speakeasies for inspiration.

Elizabeth Bennet - became a stenographer after university. Has a diaphragm, a washing machine, and a bob haircut. 

Jane Bennet - famed in the neighborhood for her perfection at the lindy hop, but secretly misses her corset.

Mrs. Bennet - gets all her daughters daring new one-piece bathing suits, certain it will set them up forever.

Fitzwilliam Darcy - only buys a motorcar so Bingley will stop pestering him about it. Chagrined by Elizabeth’s suggestion that he drive it off a cliff.

George Wickham - made a fortune in bootlegging, but crossed the wrong mobster, and sleeps with the fishes now.

John Willoughby - wants to be the next F Scott Fitzgerald. Only interested in ladies with diaphragms.

Colonel Brandon - looks dashing in his aviator gear, but shocks the Bright Young Things by thinking jazz is over-rated.

Edward Ferrars - ignores his mother’s insistence he get a motorcar and a career in radio, certain that both are just fads.

George Knightley - delights Mr. Woodhouse with photographs from Lord Carnarvon’s discoveries in Egypt, but dissuades Emma and Harriet from giving into Tut-mania.

Captain Wentworth - remains half agony, half hope in the post-war disillusionment.  

Henry Tilney - drinks cocktails and goes to nightclubs, appreciates rayon.

Henry Crawford - once convinced the Bertrams to hold a Bath and Bottle party.

Edmund Bertram - sick of hearing Sir Thomas complain about Lloyd George. Once caught his sister Maria smoking.  

Well, readers, I have let my imagination run quite wild here, imagining all our Austen favorites as Bright Young Things. Let me know if I have left anyone out!