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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I've been thinking about why Austen was not difficult for me to read as a teenager. By that age, I had already read a lot of children's/young adult classics set in other times and/or places such as the Little House books, The Secret Garden, and Little Women. (There were plenty of others, but it's been so long I can't recall all of them now.) Also, I had well-read parents who could answer my questions about the books I read, and explain British/US terms (jumper = sweater, etc.) So by the time I got to Austen, it was just another British book in an earlier time. Perhaps you had a similar experience?
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That's probably what it was. I know I had I had already gone through "The Swiss Family Robinson", "Captains Courageous" and various Washington Irving and Poe stuff by then. I also used to watch a lot of the old B&W movies on TV that were set in various historical periods because that always interested me. So reading about another time period wasn't an alien concept.