A Great Austen Novel Event Begins Next Wednesday!
Hold on to your bonnets Janeites and Gothic literature fans, cuz Austenprose will be hosting another Austen novel event during the month of October, 2008 in honour of Jane Austen’s Gothic parody, Northanger Abbey. Please join the 31 day blog event and ‘Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey’ including a group read and discussion of Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey , book and movie reviews, guest bloggers, and tons of free giveaways!
Here is a partial schedule of the upcoming fun
Group Read
OCTOBER 2: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen group read begins with chapters 1-3.
The complete reading schedule can be found here
Guest Bloggers
OCTOBER 6: Amanda Grange, author of Mr. Darcy’s Diary and the four other retellings of Jane Austen’s novels from the hero’s perspective is currently writing the last novel in the series, Henry Tilney’s Diary. Read up on all the scoop on the progress on her writing about hero Henry Tilney, inarguably Austen’s most charming and daring wit! Amanda will share her insights on the current novel and include some highlights on scenes and dialogue in this preview of her fabulous new novel!
OCTOBER 13: Margaret C. Sullivan, author of The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to her World, Editrix of AustenBlog, Tilneys and Trap-doors and Molland’s web sites will be discussing her admittedly partial, and totally prejudiced preference for Northanger Abbey’s hero Henry Tilney, and what makes him Jane Austen’s most dashing and quotable hunk.
OCTOBER 15: Kali Pappas, Austen fashion authority, web designer and web mistress of The Emma Adaptations Pages will be chatting with us about her favorite subject, fashion, in the two movie adaptations of Northanger Abbey. Find out what this Austenista has to say about all the elegant ball gowns and wild feathered bonnets in these two movie adaptations.
OCTOBER 20: James D. Jenkins, Gothic fiction authority and publisher of Valancourt Books will be discussing the history of Gothic fiction, renown authors of the genre and the seven novels included in the famous Northanger Cannon that character Isabella Thorpe recommends to heroine Catherine Morland in the novel Northanger Abbey, and the two books that they read, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Find out for yourself if they are all as horrid as Isabella Thorpe claims them to be!
OCTOBER 27: Writer Trina Robbins, and illustrator Anne Timmons of Graphic Classics Volume 14: Gothic Classics, the graphic novel version of Northanger Abbey and The Mysteries of Udolpho will be talking about their experience adapting and illustrating Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey. Learn all about this wonderful media for young adults and big adults too!
Giveaways
Tons of fun stuff! Northanger Abbey editions in print by publishers Barnes & Noble, Penguin, Norton Critical, Broadview, and Oxford University Press, Naxos Audio Books version of Northanger Abbey, Movies, Jane Austen ephemera and gifts, and so much more!
Don’t miss out on all the great reading, discussion
and fun giveaways, starting October 1st.
Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey! You won’t regret it!
Austenprose 
sounds like fun! northanger abbey is the story i have always had the hardest time explaining to people who have not read it or any gothic fiction so i’ll be very interested to read what others have to say about it.
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Sounds like a lot of fun. Northanger Abbey is probably my favorite of the Austen novels I’ve read. I agree with ren that it can be a lil hard to explain or sell to those Janeites who haven’t read it or to those who havent read a gothic novel but it’s still amazing and hilarious in its own lil way. Perfect for October!
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Wow, there is so much going on, how do you keep order of it all! Looking forward to October!
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I’m definitely joining in: my local library doesn’t have Mysteries of Udolpho, and my copy of Northanger Abbey is at home (I’m at grad school), so I’ve ordered them both (the Vintage Austens are so cute-I think I’ll get all of them eventually!). As soon as they come in, I’ll start reading. :D
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Hi Eva, glad that you will be joing us. Northanger Abbey can be read online or downloaded at Project Gutenberg
Northanger Abbey
e-text http://www.mollands.net/etexts/northangerabbey/index.html
download
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/121
I hope that this helps.
Cheers, Laurel Ann
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Sounds like fun, I’ll find my copy and join in for sure
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