Margaret C. Sullivan's Blog, page 71
July 29, 2008
Tuesday Open Thread: Sassy Edition
Here's our weekly roundup of articles that didn't quite make the cut for full blog entries, but we thought our readers might find interesting nonetheless.
Mark Blankenship finds P&P a "hot and sexy summer read" — but pray do not book a chaise to the charming village of High Dudgeon, Gentle Reader; it's all in good snark.
There will be a 5K walk around Stoneleigh Abbey, once owned by Jane Austen's cousin, in September.
This is also an open thread, so feel free to discuss the above articles or anythi
Pride and Prejudice Musical in Utah
A new musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (the fourth fairly recent one by our count) will debut this Friday, August 1, and run through August 16, 2008, at the SCERA Center in Orem, Utah. Tickets are $8-14 and are available online. As always, we would love a report from any AustenBlog reader who attends!
July 28, 2008
Mystery Author Kate Atkinson: Friend of Jane
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
If she could bring back just one writer for a chinwag? She interrupts. "It would be Jane [Austen:]," she says. "We'd have tea." She takes a sip of the English breakfast. "And, of course, we'd talk about you."
July 24, 2008
Lost in Austen UK broadcast in September
The Telegraph has an article about why-we-keep-adapting-Jane-yada-yada that contains the somewhat interesting news that Lost in Austen will be broadcast in ITV in September.
Lizzie enters our modern world through a portal in the Bennet wardrobe and ends up in a bedsit in Hammersmith; while Amanda moves into 19th-century Longbourn with the rest of the Bennet family. It's every teenage girl's fantasy: sleeping in a bed with Jane, curling Lydia and Mary's hair. Bingley makes a pass at you, while Dar
July 23, 2008
Getting Local With Jane: Holy Smokes, It's Pemberley Edition
Here's this week's lineup of local events of interest to Jane Austen fans. Check them out–one might be near your hometown!
July 26-7, 2008, Petworth House, West Sussex – Dandies, Duelling and Dancing…. Petworth in the time of Jane Austen, 1820 – Petworth House ("Dude…it's PEMBERLEY!" she said, her eyes wide in astonishment) hosts a two-day historical event.
See a company of Redcoats, smugglers encampment, rural crafts, cooking demonstrations in the historic kitchen, music in the House, have-a-go a
July 21, 2008
Tuesday Open Thread: The Horrors of Photoshop Edition
Welcome to another Tuesday Open Thread. Here's a few links that didn't quite make the cut for full posts over the last week for various reasons, but we thought our Gentle Readers might find them interesting anyway. Or not.
Remember last week we posted a link to an article comparing British politicians to various characters from literature? The Daily Mail took it a step further. Dorothy will be passing out the brain bleach shortly.Holiday with the WentworthsMP99: It's all about teh children!!!1!onApril 13, 2006
REVIEW: The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love by Rosie Rushton
[image error]
Review by Allison T.
Dear Jane,
R U THERE? R U LISTENING? GR8! Now, will you just toddle on over to Mount Olympus and borrow a few teeny-tiny thunderbolts from Jove and zip them off post-haste in the direction of The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love, by Rosie Rushton?
O migod, life is so harsh for the Dashwood girls! I mean, their dad left their mum to marry this bimbo, Pandora, with silicone boobs and a very demanding aura. Ellie, the eldest sister, still hasn't had a real romance at the in
We're not alone
Apparently we're not the only ones surprised (and delighted) by Dwyane Wade's classic novel of choice.
I was leafing through The New York Times Book Review the other day, in my weekly stab at keeping current on books I know I'll never have time to read, when I was startled to see the face of Dwyane Wade, the superstar guard of the Miami Heat, staring back at me.
He was posed in a double-page advertisement alongside three other big names in basketball.
He wasn't endorsing a product you'd expect, lik
The detective team of Darcy and Heathcliff
(That might be kind of cool, in a train-wrecky sort of way.)
The Telegraph has an article about a survey of female readers, who say they prefer thrillers to romance novels.
However, today's survey by Woman & Home magazine found that if women could pick one "desert island" book it would be the romantic classic Pride and Prejudice.
Mr Darcy was also regarded as the sexiest fictional man, beating Heathcliffe (Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights), Rhett Butler (Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell) and
April 12, 2006
Melissa Nathan dies at 37
We have some sad news to report. Melissa Nathan, the author of the Jane Austen-inspired novels Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field and Persuading Annie, among other novels, has passed away from breast cancer at age 37. The Guardian has an obituary.
