Jane Austen Society of
Australia
Austen citing:
You’ve Got Mail
Confession: I have read Pride and Prejudice about 200 times. I get lost in the language–words like thither, mischance, felicity. I’m always in agony over whether Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are really going to get together. Read it – I know you’ll love it.
Meg Ryan’s character, children’s bookshop owner Kathleen Kelly, to her anonymous email friend (Tom Hanks as Joe Fox) in
You’ve Got Mail. (Joe loves The Godfather (‘The Godfather is the I Ching. The Godfather is the sum of all wisdom. The Godfather is the answer to any question.’), but they end up together anyway. (Script by Nora and Delia
Ephron.)
Harriet Veitch
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