The Jane Austen Festival 2009 – Slideshow of the Regency Costume Promenade

The Jane Austen Festival in Bath, England opened on Friday, September 18th and runs for nine days until Sunday, September 27th, 2009. This year, the Grand Regency Costume Promenade began on Saturday the 19th as ladies and gentlemen in Regency finery walked through the streets of Bath, from the Roman Baths to the Assembly Rooms to Queen Square and [...]

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James Fairfax: A Gender Bending Alternate Regency Universe Will be the Next Austen Mash-up

Gentle Readers: In yet the third announcement in less than a week, another publisher is jumping on the classic literary re-imagining/mash-up band wagon and hitching their star to Austen’s prose. Independent publisher Norilana Books has announced today a new novel entitled James Fairfax, combining Jane Austen’s original text of Emma with new scenes by Adam [...]

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Pride and Prejudice 9th on Newsweek’s Top 100 Books of All Time!

Newsweek magazine has evaluated all the book lists being bantered about and arrived at their own Meta-list of Top 100 Books of All Time. 
Declaring the best book ever written is tricky business. Who’s to say what the best is? We went one step further: we crunched the numbers from 10 top books lists (Modern Library, the [...]

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Who Wants Mr. Darcy Hanging Around Your House – - All the Time?

The portrait of actor Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in the 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice is on the block on January 21st through Bonhams Auction House in London and available to the highest bidder. This may very well be the ultimate Darcy fan collectible. Not only is it a portrait of Colin Firth [...]

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The Jane Austen Survey 2008 Results are Posted at JASNA

Anatomy of a Janeite
For those Janeites who participated in the The Jane Austen Survey 2008 created and compiled by Jeanne Kiefer last January, you might be very interested to read the results which have been posted in her report, Anatomy of a Janeite, Selected Results from The Jane Austen Survey 2008 on the Jane Austen Society [...]

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Review: A Sparkling Pride and Prejudice Adapation in Edmonton Charms a Fellow Janeite

Gentle readers, it may appear from time to time, that our Austen connections run far and wide, but modesty precedes us as we happily submit this review for your perusal from our dear friend and fellow Janeite Deborah Jane who attended the new stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice presented by The Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, [...]

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Breaking News: Tornado Tom Lefroy Hits Austenland

“At length the day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy … My tears flow as I write at the melancholy idea” Jane Austen Letter to Cassandra Austen, 16 January 1796, The Letters of Jane Austen
My Dear Miss Austen,  
Our tears flow too dear Jane. A tornado has hit the gentle [...]

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Jane Austen’s Dearest Friendship with Miss Sharp Still Resonates Today

You would have held the memory of your friend Jane too in tender regret I am sure. – But the Providence of God has restored me – & may I be more fit to appear before him when I am summoned, than I sh’d have been now! – Sick or Well, beleive me ever your [...]

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Book-It Repertory Theatre: Persuasion Review

A PERSUASIVE ADAPTATION OF AUSTEN’S CLASSIC
How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been! How eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence! She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she [...]

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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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