The wait is over for those lucky Janeites who live on the east coast or will be visiting New York City shortly. The new exhibit A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy opened today at the Morgan Library and should prove to be a once in a lifetime Austen extravaganza for enthusiasts and admirers [...]
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A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy Exhibit Opens at the Morgan Library
Posted in Austen Events, Austen Museums, tagged A Woman's Wit, Jane Austen, Morgan Library on 6 November 2009 | 8 Comments »
Visit Lady Susan During ‘A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy’ at the Morgan Library Starting November 6th
Posted in A Soirée with Lady Susan, Austen Events, Novel-athon's, tagged A Soirée with Lady Susan, A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy, Jane Austen, Lady Susan, The Morgan Library on 8 September 2009 | 8 Comments »
The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City has the largest collection of Jane Austen’s personal letters and manuscripts in the world. Among the collection is the manuscript of Lady Susan. We are very fortunate that the Morgan had the foresight to acquire and retain these items as a collection after the Austen family decided to [...]
Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009 Winners Announced
Posted in Austen Events, Austen-esque Books, tagged Chawton House Library, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Short Story Award on 30 July 2009 | 4 Comments »
The winners of the 2009 Jane Austen Short Story Award were announced by author and Chair of Judges Sarah Waters at Chawton House Library on Saturday July 18th during the New Directions in Austen Studies Conference. First prize of £1000 went to Victoria Owens with her winning entry Jane Austen over the Styx. Sarah Waters described the [...]
Vote for Jane in 08
Posted in Austen Events, Austen Humor, tagged Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, Jane Austen, Laurie Viera Rigler on 9 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict author, Laurie Viera Rigler, is on one of her usual humorous jags, and has treated us to her Austen inspired political views of the 2008 presidential campaign. Here is excerpt from her lively speech that she gave recently to a group of Janeites at the Whittier Public Library in [...]
An Evening with Jane: Felicity Indeed!
Posted in Austen Events, tagged An Evening with Jane, Austenblog, KCTS, Masterpiece Classic, PBS, The Complete Jane Austen, The Jane Austen Handbook on 8 February 2008 | 7 Comments »
FELICITY
It was a union of the highest promise of felicity in itself, and without one real, rational difficulty to oppose or delay it. The Narrator, Emma, Chapter 53
Jane Austen enthusiast were summoned to celebrate the delights of their favorite authoress at, “An Evening with Jane”, at the Alderwood Barnes & Noble in Washington on Thursday evening. I [...]
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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.New Austen Exhibit
A WOMAN'S WIT:
JANE AUSTEN'S LIFE
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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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Regency Inspired Movie
THAT HAMILTON WOMAN
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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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A MATCH FOR
MARY BENNET
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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.
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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?
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THE OTHER MR. DARCY
by Monica Fairview
In this Pride and Prejudice spinoff, Caroline Bingley gets center stage. Distraught after the marriage of Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennet, Caroline's emotional breakdown is witnessed by Robert Darcy, Mr. Darcy's American cousin. Throw together during a carriage ride to Pemberley, they disagree on everything until Robert's gallant proposal saves her reputation. Can Caroline Bingley evolve past the snooty and snarky "mean girl" presented in Jane Austen's original novel and find love and happiness?
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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.
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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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