Lost in Austen: Review of Episode Four: Amanda Fixes Things at Warp Speed!

 
Will Mr. Darcy and Amanda patch it up?
Lost in Austen, the time travel twisted bonnet adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice concluded quite satisfactorily last week, and my head is still spinning from the frenetic pace and fast work that our heroine Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) conducted before the plot could be put right [...]

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Lost in Austen: Review of Episode Three: Droolgate as Darcy Does the Dip

Episode Three of Lost in Austen, ITV’s new twisted bonnet mini-series of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice aired last week and continued to surprise UK viewers (and those lucky enough to catch a bootleg version online). Our post modern heroine Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) is getting quite resourceful to survive in the Regency world after Mrs. [...]

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Lost in Austen: Review of Episode Two: This Mr. Collins is Really Creepy, fer sure!

Episode two of Lost in Austen, the new ITV television time travel twister mini-series of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice aired last week in the UK. It continues to make me laugh, and I am drawn into the creative story even though there are so many Austen blunders and inaccuracies to the novel. Honestly, [...]

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Lost In Austen: Review of Episode One: My Top 10 Most Improbable Surprises

A twisted bonnet parody of Pride and Prejudice airs on UK television! What would Jane Austen think?

The first episode of the new time travel twister Lost in Austen aired in the UK this last week. The advance publicity of the production gave me serious doubts as to its possible success. The reviews from the press [...]

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Miss Austen Regrets Review: No Regrets Here

In anticipation of Miss Austen Regrets airing in the UK on Sunday, April 27th, I have resurrected my review that was posted on the PBS blog, Remotely Connected for the US premiere in February. The movie is a treat, and it was a pleasure to write about it.  I hope that the UK viewers enjoy it as [...]

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In Remembrance of The Complete Jane Austen

 
“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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Miss Austen Regrets Review: Rumination or caveat?

 

“You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.” The Letters of Jane Austen, 07 January 1807 
The new biopic Miss Austen Regrets aired tonight on PBS, and like Miss Austen’s multi-layered novels that [...]

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Miss Austen Regrets Early Reviews: Spoilers Alert

 

Fanny Austen’s match is quite news, and I am sorry she has behaved so ill. There is some comfort to us in her misconduct, that we have not a congratulatory letter to write. Letter to Cassandra Austen, 20 June 1808

The early reviews for the new PBS biopic Miss Austen Regrets are at large, and they [...]

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Miss Austen Regrets: Cast Preview

we must allow for difference of taste…the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! Marianne Dashwood, Sense & Sensibility, Chapter 3   

The name of Jane Austen may be the most recognizable British literary figure in modern [...]

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Miss Austen Regrets Preview: A Lively Curiosity

 
LIVELY CURIOSITY 
Mr. Frank Churchill was one of the boasts of Highbury, and a lively curiosity to see him prevailed, though the compliment was so little returned that he had never been there in his life. His coming to visit his father had been often talked of but never achieved.
 The Narrator on Frank Churchill, Emma, Chapter [...]

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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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