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Archive for January, 2009

“Jane’s got more adoring female fans than Brad Pitt, and my guess is they’re more intelligent too!” Terrence Hill  Given the choice of reading Pride and Prejudice or watching a football game, which do you think the average all American male would choose?  If this is a no brainer, you have recognized the male/female divide [...]

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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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“And by my treatment of the pictures I have tried to attune myself to an art which never stresses, records only the essential, draws rather than paints: an art which aims at grace and rhythm rather than at intensity of expression.” Maximilien Vox on Jane Austen Many book illustrators have attempted to interpret Jane Austen’s [...]

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Masterpiece Classic’s new season premiered tonight with the first half of the new BBC adaptation of Tess of the d’Urbervilles on PBS. If you missed it, you can watch it on your computer through the Masterpiece website starting tomorrow for a limited time. One firm warning to those who have not seen it yet. Pull out [...]

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The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in January, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.  Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)  Frederica, by Georgette Heyer. Accolades to Sourcebooks for taking up the banner and reissuing thirteen Georgette Heyer novels to [...]

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  Masterpiece Classic fans will be happy to know that the new season begins on Sunday, January 4th at 9:00 pm EST with a new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, Tess of the d’Urbevilles on PBS. Gemma Arterton (Elizabeth Bennet in Lost in Austen) stars as the beautiful low born heroine Tess Durbeyfield, whose struggling [...]

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