I’m convinced that I should have been born in the 1800’s. Here’s the data to back this up:

1. I love Little House on the Prairie (set in the 1800’s).
2. I love Anne of Green Gables (set in the late 1800’s).
3. I love all Jane Austen novels (set in the 1800’s).

I am currently reading Jane Eyre for the 9th time. Any guesses about when the book takes place? It’s not just that times were simpler. When you read these books, you realize that all the characters experience the same level of emotions that all humans endure. But theses authors are so eloquent in their musings that I long for that time period when we didn’t butcher the English language.

Even the names of the authors and characters are classic. Today, Apple, Moonbeam and Peaches are somehow deemed trendy, but give me classic names any day. Our first child we named “Emma,” as in Jane Austen’s Emma. Our daughter Lexi’s middle name is Bennett as in the Pride and Prejudice Bennetts. I so desperately want to name my future child “Charlotte” or “Bronte,” but my husband refuses. He thinks the names are antiquated. I love antiquated.

Last night he asked me what was so special about Charlotte Bronte’s writing and I couldn’t do it justice through explanation so I had to grab the text and read it to him.
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."

Isn’t that lovely? Maybe it’s because I always identify with the protagonist so strongly. Jane Eyre is the “portrayal of the development of a thinking and passionate young woman who is both individualistic, desiring for a full life, while also highly moral.” It probably shows a great lack of humility on my part to identify with the heroine so strongly.

But need I remind you about the purpose of this blog? It’s my quest for humility and I have ways to go. I really don’t even think I’d mind the corsets of the 1800’s.

Okay, if you had Doc Brown’s flux capacitor from Back to the Future, what time period would you choose?