Lincolnshire 1
Our band performing Lincolnshire. Movement 1 of 6. (We played 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6.)
Lincolnshire 6
The last movement of Lincolnshire Posey. Movement 6 of 6. (We played 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6.)
Horkstow Grange by OU Hornsemble
Horkstow Grange from Percy Grainger's 'Lincolnshire Posey'. Arranged and conducted by Cameron Kedy BM/BME Junior at the University of ...
AustenOnly Northanger Abbey Season: Isabella Thorpe’s Imaginary Jewellrey
She knew enough to feel secure of an honourable and speedy establishment, and her imagination took a rapid flight over its attendant felicities. She saw herself at the end of a few weeks, the gaze and admiration of every new acquaintance at Fullerton, the envy of every valued old friend in Putney, with a carriage at her command, a new name on her tickets, and a brilliant exhibition of hoop rings on her finger.
Ah, Isabella Thorpe, one of my favourite of all Jane Austen’s adventuresses…imagining with some relish, the materially rich life she will enjoy with James Morland as his wife and helpmeet.
A severe reality check is needed: and Jane Austen duly gives her one.
What Isabella is imagining in this passage are the trappings of a very rich woman,-the establishment, the household, the new carriage, the whole package, if you like. Sadly for her what she is imagining, and very prettily so may I note, is the life of a rich woman, not the life of a wife of a lowly curate, or rector of a living with a small income….Ahem.
Let’s consider the type of Jewellery she was fantasizing about, shall we?
and a brilliant exhibition of hoop rings on her finger.
Hoop ring is a generic term for rings set with stones in the manner pictured above, or simple, plain gold hoops like a plain wedding ring. In Jane Austen’s era that they were not necessarily given to mark one event, like an engagement ring. That term is very Victorian, by the way , and that is one of the reasons Jane Austen would not have referred to it as such- “engagement ring” as it as known, was very popular:
In the eighteenth century the ring was still the most significant of all love tokens, its unbroken circle continuing to stand for mutual commitment and eternal regard. From the 1790s the message was sometimes reinforced by a clever arrangement of coloured stones, the initial letters of which spell a term of endearment. Typically they are as follows: by Geoffrey Munn, page 57)
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