Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey: Guest Blogger Kali Pappas Chats about Movie Fashions

Please welcome web mistress of The Emma Adaptations Pages, Graphic and Web Designer of Strangegirl Designs, and Regency fashion and style authority Kali Pappas today, as she chats about the “frivolus distinctions” of fashion in the two movie adaptations of Northanger Abbey. Enjoy!
“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often [...]

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In Remembrance of The Complete Jane Austen

 
“This present from the Campbells,” said she — “This pianoforté is very kindly given.” 
“Yes,” he replied, and without the smallest apparent embarrassment. “But they would have done better had they given her notice of it. Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. I should have expected better [...]

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An Austen Addicts Temporary Fix

FOOLISH
why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Frank Churchill, Emma, Chapter 30
An open letter to PBS
Dear Sir/Madame:
Sunday is here, and ahem, pardon my French … but where the *&#% is my The Complete Jane Austen PBS? Now that you’ve got me totally hooked on weekly installments [...]

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Northanger Abbey Review: An Austen Adventure

 
ADVENTURES 
 if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village,
she must  seek them abroad. The Narrator on Catherine Morland,
 Northanger Abbey, Chapter 1 
After viewing that pensive Persuasion adaptation last week on The Complete Jane Austen on PBS, I was all fired up to be shaken out of my Jane Austen adaptation stupor with Northanger [...]

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Northanger Abbey: Our Hero Henry Tilney

COUNTENANCE
his name was Tilney. He seemed to be about four or five and twenty, was rather tall, had a pleasing countenance.The Narrator on Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 3

In anticipation of the premiere on Sunday of the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey presented by PBS, I thought it helpful to introduce the [...]

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PBS Masterpiece Unveils New Interactive Web Site

 

THE COMPLETE JANE AUSTEN SERIES
 INITIATES NEW WEB SITE FEATURES
 
It’s official! In honor of the ‘opening night’ season premeire of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Masterpiece Theatre Classic has revealed their bright and shiny, new interactive web site; – - and it’s ready for your perusal and enjoyment,  full of all sorts of bells and whistles!
Be prepared to be wowed, cuz it sure knocked my [...]

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PBS to Connect Jane Austen Community

CONNECTION 
I congratulate you, my dear Harriet, with all my heart. This is an attachment which a woman may well feel pride in creating. This is a connection which offers nothing but good. It will give you every thing that you want — consideration, independence, a proper home — it will fix you in the centre [...]

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An Austen New Year awaits

PBS TO AIR ALL SIX JANE AUSTEN
 ADAPATIONS IN THE NEW YEAR
 
I am all anticipation of the new Masterpiece Theatre presentation, Sundays with Jane: The Complete Jane Austen, which airs on PBS starting January 13th at 9:00 pm. It will include four new adaptations of the Jane Austen novels Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility, two [...]

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