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Austen at Large: Catherine Morland is a delight!

Posted in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , on 31 January 2009 | 2 Comments »

A look at Catherine Morland from Northanger Abbey

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Sense and Sensibility: Marianne Dashwood – blushing maiden or feminist?

Posted in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 28 January 2009 | 16 Comments »

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but marry all the rest of the world. In the promotion of this object, she was zealously active, as far as her ability [...]

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Sense and Sensibility to be rebroadcast Sunday on Masterpiece Classic

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , , , , , , , on 27 January 2009 | 4 Comments »

Sense and Sensibility (2008) will be rebroadcast on February 1st and 8th at 9:00 pm on PBS. What a welcome respite after the tumultuous Victorian drama of Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Wuthering Heights on Masterpiece Classic this past month.  This adaptation by Andrew Davies was my favorite new production on The Complete Jane Austen [...]

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Jane Austen: An Illustrated Treasury, by Rebecca Dickson – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Critiques & Analysis Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 25 January 2009 | 4 Comments »

Has Jane Austen risen to a major pop-culture presence? Author Rebecca Dickson confidently thinks so, and her thoughtfully researched and beautifully illustrated new edition Jane Austen: An Illustrated Treasury is quite a persuasive testament. Any doubting Thomas’ will be hard pressed to argue against the evidence skillfully presented in this volume. Not only are the [...]

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Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment, by Joan Aiken – A Review

Posted in Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 25 January 2009 | 2 Comments »

When a book written twenty five years ago is reissued as confidently as Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment by a publisher who specializes in Jane Austen sequels, you hope that it is laudable. Of all of the past sequels to select, (and there are more than a few), why choose one based on Jane [...]

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Emma Woodhouse: Poverty, Marriage & Pedestals!

Posted in Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 24 January 2009 | 8 Comments »

“Dear me! it is so odd to hear a woman talk so!”   “I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not [...]

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