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Don’t miss the encore presentation of Northanger Abbey (2007) on Masterpiece Classic PBS Sunday, February 14th 9:00 – 10:30 PM (check your local listings). This adaptation by screenwriter Andrew Davies stars Felicity Jones as Jane Austen’s idealistic and naïve heroine Catherine Moreland and JJ Feild as the charming and witty hero Henry Tilney.  Northanger Abbey [...]

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read all Mrs. Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with great pleasure. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could not lay down again; I remember finishing it in two [...]

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Please welcome web mistress of The Emma Adaptations Pages, Graphic and Web Designer of Strangegirl Designs, and Regency fashion and style authority Kali Pappas today, as she chats about the “frivolus distinctions” of fashion in the two movie adaptations of Northanger Abbey. Enjoy! “Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it [...]

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  “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 [...]

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FOOLISH why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Frank Churchill, Emma, Chapter 30 An open letter to PBS Dear Sir/Madame: Sunday is here, and ahem, pardon my French … but where the *&#% is my The Complete Jane Austen PBS? Now that you’ve got me totally [...]

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  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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