Jane Austen Characters As Taylor Swift Songs

(This is for the Editorial Fellowship.) Read on to discover what Taylor Swift songs Jane Austen's characters would be blasting if they were alive in 2022...well, if they were alive period.

Emma Woodhouse and "Look What You Made Me Do"

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She'd have it on repeat unironically, in that she wouldn't realize it's satire. Don't you hate it when a friend is so set in their ways that it takes them a year to realize they're wrong about something? Yeah, well, that's Emma.

Lizzy Bennet and "I Knew You Were Trouble"

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She has a hunch about a newcomer...will she be right? We certainly can't blame her for feeling so firm in her belief with such a bop to support her as this EDM Taylor track from her 2012 album Red, now available as Red (Taylor's Version)!!!

Catherine Morland and "mad woman"

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Sometimes we're scared and convince ourselves that our fears aren't justified. Other times we're scared and our fears are more justified than we even expected. Catherine may be deemed a "mad woman," but she is much more!

Fitzwilliam Darcy and "I Did Something Bad"

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The most representative song of Taylor's arguably most-hated album (by critics, that is)...seems fairly representative of Darcy himself. You either love him or you hate him.

Anne Elliot and "the 1"

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Pining for a lost love? Wishing that the most perfect person you'd ever met hadn't just barely slipped through your fingers? Then "the 1" probably made you cry, and you probably have a lot in common with Persuasion's lead heroine.

General Tilney and "no body, no crime"

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Still the antagonist in a novel where ghosts and ghouls are thought to lurk around every corner, General Tilney indeed seems, amongst Austen's characters, to be the one who would, well, murder someone. That is, excluding all the soldiers who probably have killed someone, or told someone to kill someone.

Marianne Dashwood and "Fifteen"

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Getting your heart broke at 15? It's the worst, and perhaps no more so than for poor Marianne Dashwood in Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility. One can't help but sympathize for Marianne as she cries over the man she thought was the one, even if Austen might have us laugh at her innocence at other points.

Jane Bennet and "Style"

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Her love and relationship with Mr. Bingley never go out of style, as it survives illness, distance, and even that darn Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Mr. Knightley and "False God"

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Though he and Emma may fight, their love prevails. Emma, the novel, marks perhaps Austen's most tense love, as Emma and Knightley constantly disagree. But they "might just get away with this," as they start to learn they're a match for each other.