i talk about a lot of different principles that jane austen, they find in the jane austen novels. the one i want to talk about, because it is the most politically incorrect. it is the hardest for modern people to take seriously, it is the idea that men and women are really quite different from each other. not only in the obvious physical way. but that there are important psychological differences between men and women. in jane austen novels, you see that mostly when you are looking at how a man or woman approaches a relationship. mr. darcy, in a snarky mood says it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment. now, i don't know if this is history, but to me it rings true that typically, always with error exceptions to any rule, but typically women, and an earlier phase in a relationship start thinking about long-term possibilities, typically earlier than geyser. that can create some problems in relationships. another scene in which she gets at jane austen's inside, is sense and sensibility when mary and has found out that willoughby has deserted her to marry a

but sticking to jane austen. she is a real high point in the history of fiction about marriage, the novel of manners, as they called it. but also in the history of marriage, because -- not only because it took hundred office years to get to the point where women had choices like the choices in pie pride and prejudice." but because after jane austen, even starting in her day, the things started to come unraveled. so she is a high point because it's downhill from there. what caused it to unravel is a whole big group of ideas you can call romanticism or the cult of sensibility or liberation movement. jake austen made fun of this thing in an early work called "love and friendship" which is a satire where everybody finds stuff like -- happiness seems very boring to them and instead they're in pursuit of intensity. authenticity. liberation, intense experiences, basically they good around expecting love to strike them like lightning, and then not unnaturally they kind of wake up and find their lives are charred rubble a

you'll see people look like they came from many jane austen movie.ou get the best of both worlds. >> we will go back to tony in the weather center. i think i own a jacket like this from the limited. >> dark heavy wool is probably not the best wardrobe choice for a daylight today. always a lot of fun with those guys at fort mchenry. dunbarton middle school is closed in baltimore county because of a lack of water. ick outside the morning. the remnants of isaac is dragging a frontal boundary through maryland. that is producing some hit and miss light rain showers this morning. in harford county and back into the mountains. take an umbrella with you. scattered thunderstorms will develop this afternoon. they could produce locally heavy amounts of rain. let's go back to the tropics. we have to keep an eye on this storm. it will probably travel across bermuda over the next few days. it will come within a few hundred miles of the east coast of the united states. this is a storm that may not miss the east coast. we will keep you updated. variable clouds and w

texas attorney general greg abbott joins us live from austen.reaction to the ruling this week? >> shannon, we have only begun to fight about oater i.d. the reality is voter fraud is rampant across the country. look at acorn and the fact that more than 200 dead people voted in the texas premare in the last election and so we are trying to use voter i.d. as one of the ways of cracking down on illegal voting and cheating at the ballot box. secondly, shannon, this lower court ruling divides this country. just four years ago the united states supreme court said that voter i.d. is perfectly constitutional for indiana. why is it that indiana should be able to have voter i.d. but texas is denied voter i.d.? this is exactly why we think the united states supreme court will take this case because we should live under one constitution that applies the same rules for all states. >> shannon: what are the plans for filing the appeal in the case? >> we have to follow back up with the d.c. here are in the next couple of weeks to finalize our paper work with reg

her real name was mary ann evans, but -- when you think of the fact that jane austen published "pride a lady, and yet that novel has never been out of print, and people read it today as though it's as vivid and as contemporary as when jane wrote it 220 some years ago, i think it is. it's astonishing. "middle march" is, in many ways, almost the perfect novel. the ore thing about george elliot is she was a great intellectual and a great writer who consistently fought against the strictures that were applied to her sex. and i've always felt a certain kind of kinship with her because, as i say in the book, um, she was not an attractive woman. even the most, um, carefully-massaged portraits of her make that clear. and this some sense -- in some sense it was both insulting to her and liberating because there was the sense that she was going to have to find some other way. she was going -- she had this incredible intelligence, and, um, she was almost liberated from being a sex object, um, in that way. and i always felt when i was a little girl that i was somebody who sort of had a grown-up f