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Each of us carries around our own emotional baggage from past relationships. We may not like it, but it's ours, it's familiar, and we've been hauling it around so long that sometimes we forget it's there.
But what if we found ourselves hauling around someone else's baggage?
Which is exactly what the heroine of Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict finds herself doing. For Miss Jane Mansfield, a sheltered gentleman's daughter from 1813 England, has not only switched lives with 21st-century Los Angeleno Courtney Stone, she has also switched bodies. And that body has a history quite different from her own.
As for Courtney, who finds herself inhabiting Jane's life in Regency England in Confessions Of A Jane Austen Addict , switching bodies with the innocent Miss Mansfield could be seen as a bit of a do-over.
"How does it feel to be in a ruined woman's body?" says Courtney to Jane in an upcoming episode of {Sex and The Austen Girl, the new comedy web series inspired by both novels. The topic is virginity, and the viewpoints of the two heroines-aside from their mutual love of Jane Austen and their tendency to have their hearts broken—are miles apart.
In Jane's world of 1813 England, a lady was expected to go to the altar with no more experience of her husband-to-be than a kiss on the hand. But in our world, says Courtney, "you should take the car out for a trial run."
Poor Jane. The 21st century truly is a Rude Awakening.
Is the modern world's idea of sexual freedom for women all that it's cracked up to be? Or would we be better off in the chaste days of Jane Austen's time?
Watch Sex and The Austen Girl on Babelgum.com and find out. A new episode posts every Monday.
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