Series 2

The girls are might have been social distancing but it didn't stop them from getting stuck into Sense and Sensibility by the inimitable Jane Austen

The girls talk feminism in the 1800s, sad girl aesthetic vs depression, Saoirse Fierce and her housebound wig-snatching ability, and Katie and Cliodhna treat us to an improvised scene where two gentlewomen discuss whether a can of Guinness will affect their marriage prospects...

This week the girls discuss Jane Austen's Emma, from the comfort of their respective, socially distanced homes.

The girls talk about the heroine Jane Austen was sure no one would like (hereafter referred to as "the original mean girl"), her journey of self-discovery through the book and just how good they think Mr Knightley smelled (hint: very)...

The girls argue over whether Persuasion's slightly darker tone and shift to emotional depth from sparkling dialogue is a good or bad thing. As expected, they do not agree and go back on what they say a few times, confusing themselves and everyone else in the process. Though they do decide that this is the most romantic of Jane Austen's novels they've read so far and that Sir Walter, to use Chloe's phrase, is a bad bitch...

This week the girls get stuck into Mansfield Park - a novel that Saoirse thought was gonna be super dry and only give us a half hour's worth of material tops.

Instead, the girls talk social mobility, pickup artist culture, the importance of staying true to one's values and just how funny is the name Fanny (spoiler: very)...

This week the girls talk muslin, men and murder when they get stuck into Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. It's another one that Saoirse thought would be too thin on the ground to fill up a whole show, and yet again, how wrong she was...

This week the girls get their teeth into Jane Austen's masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice.

They spend the entire hour agonizing over the upsettingly thick layer of sexual tension running through all of Lizzy and Darcy's conversations (so sticky...), hate-flirting as a viable way to meet your soulmateh how amazing it is to have a heroine openly own a serious mistake in judgement, and not place herself in exile or throw herself off a cliff afterward...

This week the girls continue their discussion on Pride and Prejudice, supplementing their discussion with Rose Servitova's "The Longbourn Letters" and Janice Hadlow's "The Other Bennet Sister”...

Topics discussed (while Saoirse's next door neighbour aggressively cuts their hedge and what ever chair Cliodhna is sitting in squeaks obscenely loudly) include:
- Mary Bennet, heroine extraordinaire
- Mr Bennet as a secret leading man
- Why unsympathetic characters become unsymapthetic in the first place, and should we laugh at them?