“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
Posted in Austen Humor, Emma Movies, Mansfield Park Movies, Northanger Abbey Movies, Persuasion Movies, Pride & Prejudice Movies, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Austenprose, PBS, The Complete Jane Austen on 3 March 2008 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
Persuasion Review: “almost too good for me”?
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Austen Movie Reviews, Masterpiece Classic, Persuasion Movies, tagged Amanda Hale, Anne Elliot, Anthony Head, Captain Wentworth, Fanny Knight, Masterpiece Classic, PBS, Persuasion, Rupert Penry-Jones, Sally Hawkins, Sir Walter Elliot, The Complete Jane Austen on 14 January 2008 | 17 Comments »
“You may perhaps like the heroine, as she is almost too good for me”.
Jane Austen, 23 March 1817, Letters of Jane Austen
Was Sally Hawkins performance as Anne Elliot too good? I think not so.
I do not know what to think of her interpretation of our tragic heroine in the PBS presentation of Persuasion on Masterpiece Classic last night. I am [...]
PBS Masterpiece Unveils New Interactive Web Site
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Austen in the News, Emma Movies, Mansfield Park Movies, Masterpiece Classic, Miss Austen Regrets, Northanger Abbey Movies, Persuasion Movies, Pride & Prejudice Movies, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Emma, Mansfield Park, Masterpiece Classic, Miss Austen Regrets, Northanger Abbey, PBS, Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, The Complete Jane Austen on 13 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Austen countdown: 1 day to Persuasion
Posted in Persuasion Movies, tagged Masterpiece Classic, PBS, Persuasion, Rupert Penry-Jones, Sally Hawkins, The Complete Jane Austen on 12 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1 DAY TO PERSUASION ON PBS
Sunday, the 13th of January, at 9:00pm
Pop the popcorn and plump the pillows on the settee! The long wait is almost over! What has been talked about and anticipated for some months, will shortly come to pass. The premiere of the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel of love and redemption, Persuasion, [...]
PBS to Connect Jane Austen Community
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Austen in the News, Emma Movies, Mansfield Park Movies, Masterpiece Classic, Miss Austen Regrets, Northanger Abbey Movies, Persuasion Movies, Pride & Prejudice Movies, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged A Great Deal of Conversation, Austen-tatious, Austenblog, Austenprose, Emma, Jane Austen Quote of the Day, Jane Austen Today, Jane Austen's World, Mansfield Park, Masterpiece Theatre, Northanger Abbey, PBS, Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice, Remotely Connected, Sense & Sensibility, Solitary Elegance, The Complete Jane Austen, The Republic of Pemberley on 11 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
An Austen New Year awaits
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Austen in the News, Emma Movies, Mansfield Park Movies, Masterpiece Classic, Miss Austen Regrets, Northanger Abbey Movies, Persuasion Movies, Pride & Prejudice Movies, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Emma, Mansfield Park, Masterpiece Theatre, Northanger Abbey, PBS, Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, The Complete Jane Austen on 1 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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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Visit the new Jane Austen exhibition November 6, 2009 through March 14, 2010 at the Morgan Library in New York City. Featured are several of Jane Austen's letters, manuscripts of The Watsons and Lady Susan, and extensive support material including information on her contemporaries, images of artwork from the era, vintage novels and a new film interviewing contemporary writers, actors and artists on Austen's enduring legacy.
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The romance of Emma, Lady Hamilton and Lord Horatio Nelson might just be the most infamous romance of the Napoleonic age. She was an reputedly beguiling beauty and he a brilliant naval hero, both married to others, yet scandalously engaging in an love affair that shaped history. This 1941 movie staring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as the two ill-fated lovers has just been re-issued on DVD by Criterion Collection and may be one of my favorite romantic movies short of Pride and Prejudice.
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LOST IN AUSTEN
A new four part television mini-series based on Jane Austen's famous novel Pride and Prejudice aired in the UK in September 2008 to mixed critical reception. I liked it! You can read all four of my reviews on each episode by following the links listed below.
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