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Miss Austen Regrets Early Reviews: Spoilers Alert

Posted in Jane Austen's Letters, Masterpiece Classic, Miss Austen Regrets, tagged , , , , , , , on 31 January 2008 |

  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, [...]

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Miss Austen Regrets: Cast Preview

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Miss Austen Regrets, tagged , , , , , , , on 30 January 2008 | 2 Comments »

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 [...]

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Mansfield Park (2007) on Masterpiece Classic – A Review: No Hope of a Cure

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Mansfield Park Movies, Masterpiece Classic, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 26 January 2008 | 18 Comments »

“My dear Miss Price,” said Miss Crawford, as soon as she was at all within hearing, “I am come to make my own apologies for keeping you waiting; but I have nothing in the world to say for myself-I knew it was very late, and that I was behaving extremely ill; and therefore, if you [...]

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Mansfield Park: The Enigma that is Fanny Price

Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, tagged , , , , , , , on 24 January 2008 | 10 Comments »

  GENTLENESS  The gentleness and gratitude of her disposition would secure her all your own immediately. From my soul I do not think she would marry you without love; that is, if there is a girl in the world capable of being uninfluenced by ambition, I can suppose it her;  Mary Crawford on Fanny Price, [...]

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Miss Austen Regrets Preview: A Lively Curiosity

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Miss Austen Regrets, tagged , , , , , , on 22 January 2008 | 2 Comments »

  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 [...]

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Northanger Abbey Review: An Austen Adventure

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Masterpiece Classic, Northanger Abbey Movies, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 20 January 2008 | 14 Comments »

  ADVENTURES   if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must  seek them abroad. The Narrator on Catherine Morland,  Northanger Abbey, Chapter 1  After viewing that pensive Persuasion adaptation last week on The Complete Jane Austen on PBS, I was all fired up to be shaken out of my Jane Austen [...]

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