1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,400 Hey guys, this is Mel, if you're listening to this, you are about 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,900 to hear a super special sneak peek of our latest bonus 3 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:11,700 episode, but fair warning. This is just a sneak peek don't 4 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:14,400 hurt us. It's totally optional to 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,000 subscribe, but if you're interested, you can check out 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,600 our patreon by searching significant lovers. 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,000 Patreon online. Hope you enjoy. 8 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:36,900 Well, should we start the yeah, the romance. 9 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:38,600 Yes. In what? 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,200 Three words? Would you describe this couple? 11 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:49,200 Well, the couple is Jane Austen, Jane Austen and a man named Tom 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,200 Lefroy. Who the frig boy? 13 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,300 He was actually Irish, but descended from French people. 14 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:01,900 That's I liked him. I know, I know, I thought kind 15 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:05,099 Grant, mmm. But if I had to describe them in 16 00:01:05,099 --> 00:01:11,400 three words, I would say sweet, mmm, short and fascinating, 17 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:14,400 okay? It is a short, very short 18 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,200 relationship. That's kind of like, what are 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:23,100 you are? Well, it happened before. 20 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:26,500 Pride and Prejudice came out. So I don't think you think it's 21 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:34,700 real. So, if anyone listening is like 22 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:39,900 a big Jane Austen fan, welcome. I know some people like dedicate 23 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:45,400 their lives to Jane Austen like people love her and so, you 24 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,700 know, please forgive me if I leave something out, you know? 25 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:51,400 I'm just focusing on her and Tom was Roy don't have like her 26 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,900 whole yeah here. Yeah and for this episode I used 27 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:57,200 a couple things. I use the letters of Jane 28 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,200 Austen, it's actually cool. Like you can read All the 29 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,000 letters that exist by her that are still out there. 30 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,500 Someone like put them on internet and kind of cool. 31 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:09,000 You can read her private letters. 32 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,000 It's cool. Like she'll just write about 33 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,900 things like so and so and so come over and like blah, blah 34 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:15,800 blah, like you don't really know what the context is. 35 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,900 You don't know who they are. Yeah, it's nice. 36 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:21,200 It's like reading someone's diary um, and a couple articles 37 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,000 like one by Colleen. A, she can't she an from The 38 00:02:25,008 --> 00:02:28,900 Wall Street Journal addicted, to Jane Austen.com. 39 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,400 Thank you. You and a couple other places. 40 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,300 So, yeah, I think that this couple even if you've liked, 41 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:41,800 never read a Jane, Austen book or never even seen the movies. 42 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:45,800 I think this will still be interesting because I think her 43 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,500 books have like influenced every romance like since then, you 44 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:54,200 know, and even like Twilight, like is really influenced by her 45 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,700 like Pride and Prejudice. I think it's like the oh, oh, 46 00:02:56,700 --> 00:02:59,800 he's kind of rude, but you're still interested in. 47 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:02,700 In him like, the Dynamics and like people love mr. 48 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:07,400 Darcy and Colin Firth. And like the movie Clueless is 49 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,800 based on Emma. There's so many adaptations of 50 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,300 those so yeah I think even if you're not like that familiar 51 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:17,500 with her I could still be interesting. 52 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,800 Our existing listeners. Don't don't run away. 53 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,000 If you don't know Jane Austen and I think this episode is kind 54 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,700 of fun. It's almost like it's reminding 55 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:31,800 me of Taylor Swift in a way like In Jane Austen's books, you can 56 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:36,800 see like hints of Tom Lefroy, like clues that it's about him 57 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,700 or like she'll put little codes and stuff in her writing. 58 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:42,800 So, it was reminding me of the t-swift episode. 59 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,800 I'm excited to hear about it. You know, I'll send us a t-swift 60 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,100 of her art error. Hmm. 61 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:51,100 You could say that you could say that. 62 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:51,900 Okay. Yeah. 63 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:55,600 So in this episode, we're going to be talking about what 64 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,800 happened between them as we always do. 65 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:03,300 All the evidence we have, Have because there's not a lot and 66 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:06,300 how it shows up in her novels, as I said. 67 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,100 All right I will have to stop the episode right there. 68 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:13,800 Thank you so much for listening to the teaser. 69 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,800 If you want to hear the full episode in many other bonus 70 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,800 episodes, you can find them on patreon, you can search 71 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,100 significant lovers on the website or download the patreon 72 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:27,200 app. It works a lot, like, regular 73 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,800 podcast listening apps. We have tons of other couples on 74 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:35,300 patreon to listen to. 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