The rebroadcast of episode two of the 2008 mini-series Sense and Sensibility concluded last night on Masterpiece Classic and I am duly satisfied, not only with this production but with Jane Austen’s amazing story. You can catch up on my thoughts on episode one here.
Sense and Sensibility has really grown on me over the years. It is [...]
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Masterpiece’s Sense and Sensibility 2008 Revisited: Part Two
Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Charity Wakefield, Dan Stevens, Elinor Dashwood, Hattie Morahan, Jane Austen, Marianne Dashwood, Masterpiece Classic, Sense and Sensibility, Sense and Sensibility (2008) on 9 February 2009 | 3 Comments »
Masterpiece’s Sense and Sensibility 2008 Revisited: Part One
Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper, Hattie Morahan, Jane Austen, Masterpiece Classic, Sense and Sensibility (2008) on 2 February 2009 | 7 Comments »
They say that time and distance are the best healers. After revisiting the 2008 miniseries of Sense and Sensibility last night on Masterpiece Classic, I have to agree. This controversial new adaptation by Andrew Davies which premiered last March has mellowed for me, and the rough edges that I wrote about in my initial review [...]
Sense and Sensibility to be rebroadcast Sunday on Masterpiece Classic
Posted in Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Charity Wakefield, Dan Stevnes, Elinor Dashwood, Hattie Morahan, Jane Austen, Marianne Dashwood, Masterpiece Classic, PBS, Sense and Sensibility (2008) on 27 January 2009 | 4 Comments »
Sense and Sensibility (2008) will be rebroadcast on February 1st and 8th at 9:00 pm on PBS. What a welcome respite after the tumultuous Victorian drama of Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Wuthering Heights on Masterpiece Classic this past month.
This adaptation by Andrew Davies was my favorite new production on The Complete Jane Austen last [...]
Craving More Sense and Sensibility? Read On!
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen-esque Books, Sense & Sensibility, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Andrew Davies, Emma Thompson, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility on 9 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
“I shall divide every moment between music and reading. I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for anything beyond mere amusement. But there are many works well worth reading, at the Park; and [...]
Sense and Sensibility: Conflict of Heart Over Head: Episode Two
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Austen Movie Reviews, Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Charity Wakefield, Daisy Haggard, Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper, Hattie Morahan, Jane Auten, Jean Marsh, Masterpiece Classic, Sense and Sensibility on 6 April 2008 | 8 Comments »
“I, and only I, knew your heart and its sorrows; yet, to what did it influence me? — not to any compassion that could benefit you or myself. — Your example was before me: but to what avail? — Was I more considerate of you and your comfort? Did I imitate your forbearance, or lessen [...]
Withstanding Sense, or Sensibility: Review of Episode One
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Austen Movie Reviews, Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Charity Wakefield, Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper, Hattie Morahan, Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility 2008 on 30 March 2008 | 9 Comments »
Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of ever seeing a man who could satisfy her ideas of perfection, had been rash and unjustifiable. Willoughby was all that her fancy had delineated in that unhappy hour and in every brighter period, as capable of attaching [...]
Sense and Sensibility 2008: Cast Preview
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Andrew Davies, Charity Wakefield, Elinor Dashwood, Hattie Morahan, Jane Austen, Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility on 28 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
IMPROPRIETY
“I am afraid,” replied Elinor, “that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
“On the contrary, nothing can be a stronger proof of it, Elinor; for if there had been any real impropriety in what I did, I should have been sensible of it at the time, for we always know [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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Join us and discover author Jane Austen through her novels, letters, life and modern intrepretations as we focus on her unique ability to write about her early 19th-century English rural society with keen observation, irony and wit.New Austen Exhibit
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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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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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