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March 10, 2009
More P&P for your listening pleasure
Lawrence Rush wrote to tell us that there is now a website for his musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The website has information both for Janeites and for those interested in producing the play, including a selection of songs that Mr. Rush has composed for the play, which we suspect will be the most [...:]
March 9, 2009
Tuesday Open Thread: Obscure and Obscurer Edition
Welcome to Tuesday Open Thread, in which we highlight some articles that didn’t quite make the cut for a full posting on AustenBlog, but that we thought our readers would find interesting nonetheless. Or in this case, we found them of passing interest, more as a curiosity than anything else.
Once again, we have a [...:]
Once again, we have a [...:]
March 5, 2009
Pride and Prejudice opens in Milwaukee
There is joy in Wisconsin as Janeites there prepare to enjoy the Milwaukee Rep’s production of Pride and Prejudice.
OnMilwaukee.com previews the play.
“And there is joy, true happiness in fulfillment, in this story’s conclusion. I have to say, and I don’t think this is from an unrepentant romantic, that I never tire of such a [...:]
OnMilwaukee.com previews the play.
“And there is joy, true happiness in fulfillment, in this story’s conclusion. I have to say, and I don’t think this is from an unrepentant romantic, that I never tire of such a [...:]
Friday Bookblogging: Fancy Work Edition
Welcome to Friday Bookblogging, Gentle Readers! We start off with a couple of books related to sewing and manners in the 19th century.
The first, The Lady’s Stratagem: A Repository of 1820s Directions for the Toilet, Mantua-Making, Stay-Making, Millinery & Etiquette, has recently been published by Lavolta Press. Translated from six French manuals with supplements from [...:]
The first, The Lady’s Stratagem: A Repository of 1820s Directions for the Toilet, Mantua-Making, Stay-Making, Millinery & Etiquette, has recently been published by Lavolta Press. Translated from six French manuals with supplements from [...:]
The He-Man Austen Haters Club
All right, this is turning into a conspiracy. Not one but two articles crossed our desk tonight in which well-known gentlemen cast aspersions on Jane Austen’s work.
Budget Orlando Bloom Rupert Friend, who Janeites might remember as Mr. Wickham (boo! hiss!) in P&P 2005, and who will star as Prince Albert (insert your own “can” [...:]
Budget Orlando Bloom Rupert Friend, who Janeites might remember as Mr. Wickham (boo! hiss!) in P&P 2005, and who will star as Prince Albert (insert your own “can” [...:]
Go ahead. Jump in the pond. You know you want to.
Pride and Prejudice Location Tours is offering a tour that will visit all the filming locations for the 1995 BBC series of Pride and Prejudice. The tour will take place from 4-7 May, 2009.
Highlights include staying in Hunsford Parsonage, dipping your toe in the lake where Darcy dived, and regency gala dinner. Your tour [...:]
Highlights include staying in Hunsford Parsonage, dipping your toe in the lake where Darcy dived, and regency gala dinner. Your tour [...:]
Getting Local With Jane: All Europe Edition
Welcome to Getting Local with Jane, our weekly feature in which we list upcoming local events of interest to Jane Austen fans. This week we’re all in Europe, with two events in Jane Austen country itself.
March 7, 2009, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Heartbreak Productions presents Emma at Central Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are £10, £7.50 concessions, [...:]
March 7, 2009, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Heartbreak Productions presents Emma at Central Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are £10, £7.50 concessions, [...:]
March 3, 2009
REVIEW: Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo
Review by a Baja Janeite
“I will share the letters with you…if you meet my conditions.”
“Conditions?” This was the first I’d heard of conditions. Our correspondence had never hinted at anything like this.
“A series of tasks, really, more than conditions, per se.”
“Tasks?”
“So that you may prove yourself worthy.” (Jane Austen Ruined My [...:]
“I will share the letters with you…if you meet my conditions.”
“Conditions?” This was the first I’d heard of conditions. Our correspondence had never hinted at anything like this.
“A series of tasks, really, more than conditions, per se.”
“Tasks?”
“So that you may prove yourself worthy.” (Jane Austen Ruined My [...:]
Austentatious at the Landor Theatre
Austentatious, a musical about a slightly dysfunctional community theatre group staging a very original production of Pride and Prejudice (read our review of the play when it was staged in Philadelphia), is playing at the Landor Theatre through 28 March. Tickets are £15, £12 concessions. If you’re in London, the Editrix says go check it [...:]
Okay, let’s ask the guys then
MP and novelist Ann Widdecombe expresses an opinion about Jane Austen that we found absolutely fascinating.
The rest of us might be swept of our feet by Mr Darcy and Captain Wentworth, but Ann Widdecombe is unconvinced. Discussing the writer in Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, the MP and novelist Ann Widdecombe claims that while “Jane [...:]
The rest of us might be swept of our feet by Mr Darcy and Captain Wentworth, but Ann Widdecombe is unconvinced. Discussing the writer in Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, the MP and novelist Ann Widdecombe claims that while “Jane [...:]
