Posted in Austen Humor, Austen at Large, tagged Austen at Large, Austen Humor, Emma, Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen, Mr. Elton on 11 April 2009 | 11 Comments »
My class assignment taken to the fullest extent!
And of course he must have his say.
Virginia Claire
Virginia Claire, our Austen at Large roving reporter is a college student studying English literature and history who just returned from her time studying abroad in Bath England and working as an intern at the Jane Austen Centre. She is [...]
Posted in Austen at Large, Guest Blogger, tagged Austen at Large, Bath England, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Centre, Jane Austen Festival Bath on 4 April 2009 | 3 Comments »
This week I have been thinking about my experience as an intern at the good ol’ Jane Austen Centre last year, which I miss so much. I might have the good fortune to go back to England during the summer, but I will not know till the end of this month. In thinking about returning [...]
Posted in Austen at Large, tagged Austen at Large, Bath England, Chawton Cottgae, Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Grave, Teaching Jane Austen on 28 March 2009 | 7 Comments »
Since returning home from my Internship at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath and my travels in England, I have been very fortunate to be invited by my old high school, Saint Mary’s School and another high school called St. David’s to speak about my Austen travels and Pride and Prejudice to several classes. I [...]
Posted in Austen at Large, Austen's Oeuvre, Jane Austen's Letters, tagged Austen at Large, Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters, Pride and Prejudice on 21 March 2009 | 9 Comments »
Jane Austen’s letters offer a rich repository of her life and Regency times. Austen at Large reporter Virginia Claire shares her thoughts on Jane Austen’s reading of Pride and Prejudice to her neighbor Miss Benn.
Posted in Austen at Large, Pride & Prejudice, tagged Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Mr. Wickham, British literature, Classic Literature, George Wickham, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Charles Bingley, William Collins, Mr. Collins on 14 March 2009 | 11 Comments »
An analysis and poll to vote for your favorite bachelor of the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Austen at Large, Pride & Prejudice Movies, tagged Andrew Davies, Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen, Movie adaptations, Movies, Mr. Darcy, Period Drama, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice (1995), Pride and Prejudice 1980 on 7 March 2009 | 11 Comments »
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular if not most adapted novel, and its famous hero Mr. Darcy has been interpreted in many different ways. There have been several excellent period adaptations of Pride and Prejudice which present Darcy’s character differently, particularly Fay Weldon’s 1980 and Andrew Davies 1995 versions. These two adaptations master [...]
Posted in Austen at Large, Pride & Prejudice, tagged Books, Classic Literature, Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen, Literature, Pride and Prejudice on 28 February 2009 | 6 Comments »
As many people who read this blog each week may know, Elizabeth Bennet is my favorite heroine. She is witty, caring, intelligent, honest, and bold. All characteristics which though I myself may not possess, I respect them in characters, as well as in people. In Elizabeth Bennet I do not see an idealized woman, yet [...]
Posted in Austen at Large, Pride & Prejudice, tagged Books, British Listerature, Classic Literature, Fay Weldon, Jane Austen, Literature, Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice 1980, Pride and Prejudice 2005 on 21 February 2009 | 17 Comments »
This week, as I began to reread Pride and Prejudice with my Jane Austen class, I have discovered some prejudices that I have. In reading a book that I know and love so well, I have almost found it hard to understand some people’s opinions of it. I will say that most girls in my [...]
Posted in Austen at Large, Northanger Abbey, tagged Austen at Large, Henry Tilney, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey on 14 February 2009 | 5 Comments »
A look at Henry Tilney. An all around great guy!
Posted in Austen Humor, Austen at Large, Guest Blogger, Northanger Abbey, tagged Austen at Large, Austen Humor, Guest Blogger, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Virginia Claire Tharrington on 7 February 2009 | 10 Comments »
In this past week I have been finishing Northanger Abbey and as wonderful as the romance is in it, I think one of the most important lessons is about friendship. Catherine learns throughout the novel how to better read people, in particular her friends. She starts out completely fooled by Isabella Thorpe. Catherine thinks that they [...]
Posted in Austen at Large, Northanger Abbey, tagged Austen at Large, Catherine Morland, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Virginia Clarie Tharrington on 31 January 2009 | 2 Comments »
A look at Catherine Morland from Northanger Abbey
Posted in Austen at Large, Guest Blogger, tagged Jane Austen, JASNA on 17 January 2009 | 5 Comments »
Back In Jane Austen Mode
Hello There Again! It is wonderful to be writing again after Christmas break. I am back at school settling in to my routine of classes and being a normal college student. I can’t even begin to say how much I miss the Jane Austen Centre though. I miss it and the people [...]
where "There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit."
Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, 21 April 1805
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.
MASTERPIECE CLASSIC
2010 SEASON
Hold on to your bonnets! The new 2010 season begins December 20th with an encore presentation of Cranford and continues with a smashing lineup highlighted by Emma 2009, Northanger Abbey 2007 and Persuasion 2007. Check out the complete season at their great website.
MASTERPIECE CLASSIC
A WOMAN'S WIT:
JANE AUSTEN'S LIFE
AND LEGACY
at the Morgan Library, NYC
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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A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY
ACKNOWLEDGED: 33 GREAT
WRITERS ON WHY WE
READ JANE AUSTEN
edited by Susannah Carson
Thirty-three contemporary and classic writers from the last century reveal why we are compelled to read the works of Jane Austen after nearly two hundred years. From author Virginia Woolf to screenwriter and director Amy Heckerling, what unfolds is a compelling and insightful collection of views on Austen's endurling appeal and why we read her.
LAUREL ANN'S REVIEW
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THAT HAMILTON WOMAN
directed by
Alexander Korda
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.
LAUREL ANN'S REVIEW
A MATCH FOR
MARY BENNET
by Eucharista Ward
Jane Austen’s minor character Mary Bennet from Pride and Prejudice is not exactly heroine material. Prim, judgmental and pedantic, Mary gets a make-over and a new outlook on life. Her evolution throughout the course of the book is surprising as two new men, one a rakeish charmer and the other a stoic Minister help her to discover that there is more to life than her Godly studies, music and books.
LAUREL ANN'S REVIEW
ACCORDING TO JANE
by Marilyn Brant
In this contemporary novel, Jane Austen’s ghost inhabits teenage Ellie Barnett’s thoughts, guiding her through twenty years of life’s romantic and unromantic dilemmas. Since we all know that Auntie Jane never steered any of her heroines in the wrong direction, Ellie has excellent advice, or does she?
LAUREL ANN'S REVIEW
LADY SUSAN
by Jane Austen
One of the lesser known works, Lady Susan just might be the sleeper novel of Jane Austen's oeuvre. Meet Lady Susan, the "Mistress of deceit," who is tagged the most "acomplished coquette in England" by society, and for good reason. She flirts with married men and steals other ladies beaux right under their noses, all without a whiff of conscience. Written in Austen's late teens, it's unguarded and exhuberant style is highly memlodramatic and outrageously fun.
LAUREL ANN'S REVIEW
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.
MY REVIEWS OF
LOST IN AUSTEN
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
