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December 16, 2011
A Hero’s Guide to Gift Giving!
Scurry on over to Jane Started It! to read the Crown Hill Writers Guild comic contribution to the Jane Austen Birthday Soiree. There’s prizes galore there and even more at the other thirty-one Austen-inspired blogs. Have fun, win prizes and sing “Happy Birthday” to our dear Jane. See you there!
~Pamela
A Hero's Guide to Gift Giving!
Scurry on over to Jane Started It! to read the Crown Hill Writers Guild comic contribution to the Jane Austen Birthday Soiree. There's prizes galore there and even more at the other thirty-one Austen-inspired blogs. Have fun, win prizes and sing "Happy Birthday" to our dear Jane. See you there!
~Pamela
December 13, 2011
Jane Austen Birthday Soiree: Come Celebrate!
Yes, Jane Austen is 236 years old this Friday!
Thirty-two Austen bloggers, authors and literature enthusiasts are joining together for an Austen Birthday Soiree on December 16th. Organized by Maria Grazia of My Jane Austen Book Club & Katherine Cox of November's Autumn, the all day blog hop will feature a post in celebration of Jane Austen, her life, her novels and the era in which she lived at each of the 32 blogs!
And, what birthday would not be complete without present? There will be...
December 8, 2011
Mr. Knightly and Winner #2
Mr Knightley
As many of you guessed, the actor who inspired wails in the tiniest actresses in Emma was Mark Strong/Mr. Knightly. Perhaps that experience is why he has since played villains!
Several of you expressed dissatisfaction with Mssr. Strong as Emma's Mr. Knightly, but I confess I like him the best and perhaps for the same reasons some have called him "stern," though I never saw it. Well, actually, yes I have, and his characterization (or his director's) rang true to me…much more so...
November 25, 2011
Art and Life
Christmas at Pemberley 1797...a great Christmas 2011 gift, especially for the younger Austen fan!
I was reminded recently how funny life can be, especially the "writing life" as it intersects "real life." I know I'm not the only author who ever scanned airports and their book stores hoping to see one's books on shelves or, more so, in traveler's hands. On the other hand, rarely do I say anything about being an author when making an acquaintance for fear of the blank stare at the mention of my ...
November 16, 2011
“We’re making a baby!” Giveaway 2
Davies and Babies
What a delight it was to hear the background stories of Andrew Davies Austen movies at the 2011 JASNA in October! His reminiscences flowed until the session time was nearly over. Pride and Prejudice, he claimed, was the easiest to bring to screen. It seemed ready made for adaptation. The hardest Austen novel for him to screen write was Emma or the “little rich bitch,” as he dubbed her. Although he had little sympathy for his main character, I’d venture to say that he did quit...
"We're making a baby!" Giveaway 2
Davies and Babies
What a delight it was to hear the background stories of Andrew Davies Austen movies at the 2011 JASNA in October! His reminiscences flowed until the session time was nearly over. Pride and Prejudice, he claimed, was the easiest to bring to screen. It seemed ready made for adaptation. The hardest Austen novel for him to screen write was Emma or the "little rich bitch," as he dubbed her. Although he had little sympathy for his main character, I'd venture to say that he did...
November 15, 2011
We Have a Winner!
Congratulations to Luthien with the correct answer of The Music Room. Nine of you guessed correctly, but Luthien's name came out of the hat. Stay tuned for Giveaway #2. ~Pamela
October 30, 2011
"Just an old, little man"
Andrew Davies
That was how screenwriter Andrew Davies described himself in response to the standing ovation that greeted his ascent to the stage podium at the jam-packed JASNA session so many were ecstatic to attend. I think the self-deprecation was genuine–for the most part, but the gimlet gleam in his eye as the applause continued may have revealed how welcome the audience's denial of such a label truly was. Physically, Mr Davies IS little, not much taller at all than myself at 5'2″ and he ...
October 23, 2011
200 Years and Counting
JASNA 2011
I confess that it's been a few days since getting back from Texas and the General Meeting for 2011 of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA). This year's GM celebrated the 200th anniversary of the publishing of Sense & Sensibility, the first of Austen's novels to be made available to the public. It did not do as well as the author had hoped, although it did come to the attention of some prominent individuals of the time. One of those was the ill-fated only child of the...
