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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance, as Jane Austen wisely observed in Pride and Prejudice. Discuss this story with other readers. (India Times)
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The latest news about features and services on the AJC's web sites. The entry titled "In your forecast: Weather Venting," and any of the comments about it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Mr Darcy portrait set for auction Jun 10, 2008
25in watercolour shows Irishman Thomas Lefroy, whose courtship of author Jane Austen was ended by his parents because she was not wealthy. The rare portrait miniature has an asking price of about 50,000. (Glasgow Daily Record)
Jane Austen's lost love Jun 10, 2008
A rare miniature portrait of Tom Lefroy, the Irishman who may have provided Jane Austens inspiration for Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice ... She described him as "a very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man" - and Jane Austen certainly fell for his boyish charms ... The relationship between Austen and Lefroy formed the basis of Jon Spence's book Becoming Jane Austen, which was then fictionalised for the movie Becoming Jane, released last year with Anne Hathaway as the writer and... (Guardian Unlimited)
What's so great about intimate performances? The bigger the audience, the better Jun 9, 2008
Terry Pratchett or AS Byatt or Jane Austen become magic shields to block out the busy world ... Suddenly your private communion with Jane Austen is over. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Speed up, life's too short Jun 8, 2008
And in case anyone still believes that modern busyness is bad, they should read Jane Austen. In her time there was a more worrying social compulsion that afflicted the middle classes than crazy busyness, and that was crazy idleness. (BBC News -- UK)
Emma by Jane Austen Jun 7, 2008
Even Jane Austen knew she was creating a heroine "whom no one but myself will much like". Emma is not her best work. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Critic's corner Jun 7, 2008
Becoming Jane Comcast Given the bull market in all things Jane Austen, it's time for a movie about Jane Austen, starring Anne Hathaway (above) as the young Hampshire lass honing her art and falling in love. Girls (and other people) who like the Austen movies but haven't progressed to the novels will enjoy this lushly mounted audience pleaser, though the writer's clear, observant voice gets lost in the translation. (Boston Globe)
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Robin Monaco, 17, is painting Jane Austen. He jokes that he shares a resemblance with her. (Baltimore Messenger, MD)
'Mad Men,' 'The Wire' lead in nominations for TV Critics awards Jun 4, 2008
"Masterpiece: Jane Austen Collection" (PBS). "A Raisin in the Sun" (ABC). (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Pride & Prejudice Jun 3, 2008
With the ABC revelling in a Sunday-night festival of TV versions of Jane Austen novels, Andrew Davies's widely admired adaptation of Pride And Prejudice gets yet another run on Ovation, this time in tempting two-hour dollops. Renowned for the pairing of Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, as Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, these early episodes also display Alison Steadman in full flight as the wonderfully daffy Mrs Bennet (that high-pitched screech still rings in the ears after 13 years). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Austen's hair to net £5,000 Jun 3, 2008
A locket containing what is believed to be Jane Austen's hair is expected to reach more than 5,000 at auction ... The hair is also used for the lettering on a decorated gravestone on which the name Jane Austen appears ... Dominic Winter of the Dominic Winter Auction House, near Cirencester, said that "we have shown it to various Austen and decorative object experts including Tom Carpenter, curator at the Jane Austen House, Chawton, in Alton, Hampshire, where we compared it with the only other... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
David James: For insights into futures trading try Jane Austen Jun 2, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Skip directly to: Search Box, , , Text Version. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Thorpe moves to scuttle doping claims May 31, 2008
May 20, 2008 11:29pm AEST. IAN Thorpe has provided the country's drug testing agency with medical evidence in an attempt to clear his name of doping. (Yahoo News -- Swimming)
9/11 rebuild goes on, despite grisly finds May 31, 2008
UNTIL quite recently Jane Austen and her mannered, moralistic tales of choreographed courtship and marriage rituals had passed me by. Fr. (Yahoo News -- World Trade Center)
Ang Lee takes Venice Golden Lion May 30, 2008
The Taiwan-born director's other films include the comic book blockbuster The Hulk, released last year, and Sense and Sensibility, an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel. George Clooney's film Good Night, and Good Luck had been the hot favourite among film critics to take the Golden Lion on the last night of the annual 11-day festival. (Yahoo News -- Film Festivals)
Teachers, students put creativity on display May 30, 2008
Garriott and Jane Austen Behan, the Art Education Coordinator for Pitt County Schools, have worked together each year to present the show at Emerge. "She's coordinated everything got the teachers to participate and got the word out." Garriott said. (The Daily Reflector)
President George Bush used propaganda to invade Iraq: former aide May 30, 2008
May 29, 2008 12:27am AEST. ONE of George W.Bush's most loyal former aides, Scott McClellan, has launched a blistering attack on the US President, saying his former boss relied on "propaganda" to sell the Iraq war and that the administration has "veered terribly off course". (Yahoo News -- U.S. Military)
Top authors pick best summer books May 30, 2008
" Sophie Kinsella Jane Austen: The Complete Novels "Austen is a perennial delight. " James Patterson "One Hundred Years of Solitude," by Gabriel Garc;a Mrquez "Absolutely magnificent magical realism, and probably my favorite novel ever. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Alphabet Fashion Trend May 29, 2008 'It's done when Margot says it's done' May 27, 2008 ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS May 27, 2008 Curriculum designed to unite art and science May 27, 2008 The art of persuasion May 26, 2008 Lora Crowder May 26, 2008 Where the talented, hopeless and weird all get down May 22, 2008 Unlikely saviours May 22, 2008 What's the point of niceness? May 21, 2008 Bring on the homicidal housewives May 20, 2008 The archetypal heroine May 17, 2008 Wading far out May 13, 2008 Measure for Measure May 11, 2008 Turning down the volume on TV commercials May 11, 2008 So did it teach us anything that came in useful along the way? May 11, 2008 Bee Gee musical to hit stage May 11, 2008 County Dorset May 11, 2008 Hidden England May 11, 2008 'Cranford' takes in full scope of pre-industrial England May 3, 2008 Back - due to popular demand May 3, 2008 Stephenie Meyer - The 2008 TIME 100 - TIME May 3, 2008 'Cranford' captivates, and makes you think May 2, 2008 Books: Book review: 'Trauma' by Patrick McGrath May 2, 2008 Defending the Doodad on the Lamb Chop May 2, 2008 Chick flicks: Producers want everything but the name Apr 15, 2008 From beach house to restaurant to art studio Apr 13, 2008 Ten Best Things to do in Bath Apr 13, 2008 TV Lookout: Highlights March 13-19 Apr 13, 2008 Marena Bartz is a c-h-a-m-p-i-o-n Apr 12, 2008 Review: PBS' new 'Room With a View' captivates Apr 12, 2008 Ladies (literature) nightPosted 4 hours, 57 minutes ago. Apr 11, 2008 Review: 'The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë' Apr 11, 2008 DVD reviews: 'Will Be Blood,' 'Walk Hard' Apr 11, 2008 Hugh Laurie trades stethoscope for handcuffs Apr 10, 2008 The Eligible-Bachelor Paradox Apr 10, 2008 Promising ideas leave you wanting at 'Wit's End' Apr 8, 2008 Should Rudd do more for Tibet? Apr 8, 2008 Paul Theroux claims new biography reveals the true monster in VS ... Apr 6, 2008 Taking women off the shelf Apr 6, 2008 A former Marine with misgivings about Bush and the bloodshed in Iraq Apr 6, 2008 Chick lit free Apr 6, 2008 At Wit's End,' a murder mystery awaits Apr 4, 2008 Pride and Prejudice’ is a rare theatrical treat Apr 4, 2008 Making it up Apr 3, 2008 When Surplus Words are Usefully Surplus Apr 2, 2008 Jaideep Mishra: Skilling away poverty Apr 1, 2008 Ang Lee takes Venice Golden Lion Apr 1, 2008 The Big CD: REM - Accelerate Mar 29, 2008 Latest 'Sense and Sensibility' is captivating addition to canon Mar 29, 2008 Review: The Jane Austen Book Club Mar 29, 2008 PBS' 'Sense and Sensibility' is truly a masterpiece Mar 28, 2008 Director's heart full of passion for theatre Mar 28, 2008 Baseball Then and Now Mar 27, 2008 Celebrity scandal and Anne Frank: the reading diary of British teenagers Mar 27, 2008 PBS does a body good Mar 16, 2008 New kidney 'changed my whole personality' Mar 16, 2008 Director Ang Lee's 'Lust' fuels NC-17 debate Mar 15, 2008 And the greatest Booker novel is ... Mar 9, 2008 What's Another Word for ... Mar 9, 2008 He ain't heavy Mar 7, 2008 The Seven Basic Plots Mar 7, 2008 It takes Tudor Mar 7, 2008 No comments posted. Mar 4, 2008 Gwyn wins Taylor Prize Mar 4, 2008 Take a step back in time and consider gravel Mar 4, 2008
For a more whimsical feel, select script fonts like Scriptina, Chopin Script or Jane Austen. Feeling totally wacky. (Suite101.com)
Teens Reading the Classics May 28, 2008
Hundreds of years later in British history, teen readers find the elegance and wit of the likes of Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility), and the Bronte sisters (Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre) often irresistible. Not to be forgotten, however, are the tantalizing Agatha Christie mysteries, set much more recently in British history, but still of great literary value and great entertainment (Death on the Nile, And Then There Were None, Body in the Library). (Suite101.com)
After all, the great masters, from Leo Tolstoy and Jane Austen to Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald, didn't need degrees in writing. Livesey does not deny the mystery of exceptional genius: "I have to say I am baffled by this. I go to the British Library and look at the manuscript of [Austen's] 'Pride and Prejudice,' in all its magnificence, and I think, 'How did she do it?' ". (Boston Globe)
This lovely collection will take you, like a magic carpet, to some strange and wonderful places,'' said Karen Joy Fowler, author of ``The Jane Austen Book Club. . (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI)
One goal of the initiative is to demystify science by applying its traditional routines and parlance in nontraditional settings graphing Jane Austen, as the title of an upcoming book felicitously puts it. "If you do statistics in the context of something you're interested in and are good at, then it becomes an incremental as opposed to a saltational jump," Wilson said. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
As with most high school students, actress Sally Hawkins had studied the works of Jane Austen - and had struggled to make sense of the simplistic settings and seemingly one-dimensional tales of elusive matrimony. More than a decade later, when offered a role in a television adaptation of Austen's last novel, Persuasion, she says she was "incredibly flattered" but hesitant. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Favorite movie: "Pride and Prejudice" my youngest daughter likes watching Jane Austen movies. Reader CommentsWe welcome comments from registered users of our Web site. (Appeal Democrat, CA)
Official instructions: "The dancer, knees slightly bent, is almost stationary, although may advance forward and back by one or two small rhythmic paces. The full text of this article has 762 words. To continue reading this article, you must be a Globe Insider subscriber. Already have a member account? Search the News Search News Stock Red Carpet Red Carpet The stars come out to play 19/05/08 9:49 PM Video Picks Video Picks Indiana Jones returns 20/05/08 1:21 PM Video Picks Video Picks Paltrow's... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Why worry if you have more family silver to flog than a Jane Austen novel ... Why worry if you have more family silver to flog than a Jane Austen novel. (iAfrica.com)
There's a telling bit of humour in Jane Austen when the Northanger Abbey character Henry Tilney ruminates on the word. "It is a very nice word indeed," he says. (BBC News -- UK)
The 18th-century novel was a baggy, sententious affair before Jane Austen gave it bones. Submit your thoughts. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The 18th-century novel was a baggy, sententious affair before Jane Austen gave it bones ... We tend to say that Jane Austen wrote about lives lived in drawing rooms because that's all she knew ... At 21, astonishingly, Jane Austen knew that talk is the enduring heart of a marriage. (Globe and Mail)
However, I do wish that people would put aside their prejudices and try to read the classics anything from Jane Austen to William Golding. I think the popularity of film adaptations of Austen's novels, and the fact that almost every new British comedy is basically 'Pride and Prejudice' disguised as Ricky Gervais, prove that great stories don't date. (iAfrica.com)
As we write in "Graphing Jane Austen," a book undergoing peer review, there were variations in what our readers thought and felt about literary characters, but it was expertly contained by the authors within narrow ranges. Our conclusion: rumors of the author's demise have been greatly exaggerated. (Boston Globe)
"I suppose they will have to be responsible enough not to scare the living daylights out of people as they are watching a Jane Austen film or something," she said. Consumers, meanwhile, are not exactly powerless. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Once you remove the pixie dust of female camaraderie, contemporary New York emerges as an essentially pre-feminist society in which the courtship rituals are strikingly similar to those depicted in the novels of Jane Austen. Women are second-class citizens who are expected to use their youth and beauty as commodities in order to secure their economic wellbeing. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
The tribute is the latest in a long line of green plaques celebrating the achievements of some of Westminster's most famous former residents, including Oscar Wilde, TS Eliot and Jane Austen. To date, 77 plaques have been erected by Westminster Council to commemorate buildings in the city associated with people who have made lasting contributions to society. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The county has been a muse to writers as varied as Jane Austen, who set "Persuasion" in Lyme Regis; to Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived in Bournemouth for several years; to J.R.R. Tolkien, who holidayed in Bournemouth and died there in 1973. T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) had his fatal motorcycle crash near Clouds Hill in 1935; Moreton Church, where Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw attended Lawrence's funeral, is still there, handsomely restored after being hit by German bombs in... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Elizabeth, a lover of art and culture, entertained many illustrious guests, including her friend, Jane Austen, who was a regular visitor. Still privately owned, Belvoir is now home to the Eleventh Duke of Rutland, his wife and their five children. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
While the miniseries is certainly filled with the romantic intrigues identified with Jane Austen, it also rests atop a Dickensian sense of socioeconomic tragedy, including a father of six who has been wrongly imprisoned ... "Masterpiece" has had a popular season built primarily on Jane Austen remakes. (Boston Globe)
He was deeply influenced by the tradition of the classic English novel - by Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James - and his heroines make their way through the treacherous social maze with courage and aplomb. He was writing at a time when ideas about gender were undergoing profound and lasting changes, and helped to contribute to those changes. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
In an era when much of the romance genre has been given over to soft porn, and dark fantasy is peopled with one-dimensional characters bent on grim violence, many readers have become hungry for pure romantic fantasy lots of sexual tension, but as decorous as Jane Austen. Meyer, 34, did not calculatedly reach for that audience. (Time.com)
In some ways, Cranford combines the social criticism of Charles Dickens with the comedy of excess manners of Jane Austen, but there are no complete cads or villains in Gaskell's village. People can be selfish and mistaken, but they mostly try to do what's best, and even the worst of them are capable of moments of kindness. (USA Today -- Life)
At night he likes to listen to Rachmaninoff and Elgar and read Jane Austen. From what Charlie tells us, however, he doesn't seem like a terribly gifted psychiatrist. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
They quote myth-breaking passages from John Bunyan, Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Henry Fielding, Robert Frost, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Henry Adams and even Andy Rooney. In sum, they endorse the view of Winston Churchill. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)
At the same time, a run of recent female-oriented romantic films - "The Holiday" with Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet; "Catch and Release" with Jennifer Garner; "27 Dresses" with Katherine Heigl; "Music & Lyrics" with Drew Barrymore; "P.S., I Love You" with Hilary Swank; and "The Jane Austen Book Club" - has stopped far short of the peaks established years before by films like "Sleepless," "My Best Friend's Wedding," "Runaway Bride" and "Notting Hill.". Trying to pin down what, exactly,... (International Herald Tribune)
Readers hoping that Karen Joy Fowler will give them another "The Jane Austen Book Club" may be disappointed in her fifth novel, "Wit's End." But Fowler is too talented a writer to repeat herself. If you're willing to put those expectations aside and read - and reread - "Wit's End," you'll find Fowler's understated wit and storytelling skills in full flower. (Boston Globe)
Avon Spa City of Jane Austen, the Romans, an Abbey and Hot Springs. Bath on the River Avon is one of England's top tourist destinations, with Roman hot springs, Georgian buildings, elegant crescents, Bath Abbey, and Jane Austen links ... It's set on the River Avon, on the edge of the Cotswolds, and has beautiful Georgian architecture, graceful crescents like Royal Crescent, the Roman Baths and the Thermae Bath Spa, Bath Abbey and links with Jane Austen and 'Beau' Nash. (Suite101.com)
Now "A Room With a View," E.M. Forster's sweet, funny romantic novel, has been newly adapted by Andrew Davies (four of the films in PBS' "The Complete Jane Austen") for "Masterpiece Classic." This charming 90-minute "Room" stars Elaine Cassidy as Lucy, the passionate but callow young English tourist taking the Grand Tour of Europe with her prim chaperone (Charlotte Bartlett). Laurence Fox is her snobby fiance. (Newsmax)
Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and the series of books by Lemony Snicket, the pseudonym of Daniel Handler, are among her favorite authors. And, said her teacher Amber Sherrard, she is an incredibly bright girl. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
It is fitting that the new television adaptation has been lovingly crafted by Andrew Davies, who was most recently responsible for four of the films in the PBS "Complete Jane Austen" series. One might find thematic parallels between Austen and other British novels, but "A Room With a View" seems to have a special connection to Austen's work, including a young woman who struggles to follow conventional pathways when her heart is urging her elsewhere, the dictates of class distinction and even a... (San Francisco Chronicle)
An Evening with Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson ... Some of the 19th century s most famous female writers will appear April 15 at Wright State University s Lake Campus, when actress Patricia Hruby Powell presents An Evening with Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson. (Lima News, OH)
Charlotte's fictional double life was inevitable, I suppose, since Jane Austen has been solving crimes for ages (apparently being a literary genius at a time when women's educations were indifferent at best is no longer enough of a leap for a parson's daughter). But if Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell breaks out a deerstalker and a magnifying glass, I'm out of here. (Christian Science Monitor)
Sense & Sensibility Days after its PBS premiere, the latest Jane Austen adaptation comes to DVD. The miniseries stars Hattie Morahan as Austens prudent lady and Charity Wakefield as her starry-eyed sister as they maneuver the complications of romance and society in staid Britain. The two-disc set includes the BBC special Miss Austen Regrets, commentary and interviews with cast and crew. (MSNBC -- Movies)
For Laurie, whose film credits include family fare such as Stuart Little and 101 Dalmatians as well as Sense and Sensibility, based on the Jane Austen novel, Street Kings was a definite change of pace. Its a world I know nothing about, he said. (MSNBC -- News)
The woman picking among suitors is a rarely reversed archetype of romantic love that you'll find everywhere from Jane Austen to Desperate Housewives. Or take any comic wedding scene: Invariably, it'll have the man standing dazed at the altar, wondering just how it is he got there. (Slate)
We begin expecting likable, lifelike characters because Fowler gave us some good ones in her last novel, The Jane Austen Book Club. Wit's End (it's the name of the seaside house in Santa Cruz, Calif. (USA Today -- Life)
---Selfishness must always be forgiven, because there is no hope of a cure--- Jane Austen. Posted by: Ed on April 8, 2008 11:19 AM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Naipaul s father Seepersad is his favourite writer, some of Conrad passes muster, Flaubert is a one-book wonder; and all the rest he dismisses or disparages James Joyce, Dickens, E M Forster, Maugham, Keynes, Jane Austen, Anthony Powell, Derek Walcott and many others, including me. I am a rather common fellow , who writes tourist books for the lower classes. (Times Online)
It was a kind of magic for Rachel Cooke when she first picked up a Virago Modern Classic. Suddenly a whole world of fabulous, neglected women writers - from Stevie Smith to Antonia White - opened up before her. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
" Leonard wrote on Apr 4, 2008 7:57 PM:" They are in Bath outside of Bath, famed from the Jane Austen novels. " voter wrote on Apr 4, 2008 7:36 PM:" What part of England, Leonard. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Taking women off the shelf. It was a kind of magic for Rachel Cooke when she first picked up a Virago Modern Classic. (Guardian Unlimited)
Karen Joy Fowler follows up her bestselling 'The Jane Austen Book Club' with a tale of an old crime ... But even though "Wit's End" doesn't act much like a mystery on the surface, pay attention: As Fowler ("The Jane Austen Book Club") riffs on everything from "The Lost Boys" to why conservatives like mysteries, she's quietly dropping clues to a long-ago murder. (Christian Science Monitor)
This is one of the chief delights of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen s impeccable comedy of manners; it s at The Cleveland Play House through April 13. In lesser hands, the wordy three-hour production, including two intermissions, could be a frightful bore. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
She comes from a high-profile political family and has worked as a journalist and campaigner. But, says Melissa Benn, just because her new novel is also about politics, doesn't mean it's autobiographical. (Guardian Unlimited)
Every lover of the English novel can identify Jane Austen by a single sentence. Maybe every great writer is born with a sense of style. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)
A large income is the best recipe for happiness one ever heard of, to paraphrase Jane Austen who wrote against the backdrop of early industrialisation. That was then, when the phrase social change was yet to be coined. (India Times)
The Taiwan-born director's other films include the comic book blockbuster The Hulk, released last year, and Sense and Sensibility, an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel. George Clooney's film Good Night, and Good Luck had been the hot favourite among film critics to take the Golden Lion on the last night of the annual 11-day festival. (Yahoo News -- Film Festivals)
Never mind that it's like Jane Austen taking writing tips from Barbara Cartland, it also highlights some of the recent problems with the venerable Georgian band: their damaging ascent to that sterile community of rock statesmen; the lack of conviction; the rather wobbly sense of self. This explains why Accelerate, the band's fourteenth studio album, is such a vital record in their career: they need to prove that, after the dispiriting Around the Sun (2004), they still want to be R.E.M. One thing... (Times Online)
- doesn't much apply to Jane Austen. Her work, like that of any seminal writer (cough - Shakespeare - cough) can and should be made and remade for every generation. (Boston Globe)
Released in 2007 as a movie starring Amy Brenneman and Hugh Dancy, The Jane Austen Book Club started as a book by Karen Joy Fowler. The Jane Austen Book Club (Penguin, 2004) is set in Sacramento Valley, California ... Plot of The Jane Austen Book Club. (Suite101.com)
The closing act in PBS' four-month "Complete Jane Austen" festival, Sense and Sensibility is also the last of four original adaptations and by far the most enjoyable. Adapted by Pride and Prejudice's Andrew Davies, this two-part production, beginning Sunday at 9 ET/PT, expands and opens the story without diminishing the charm or appeal of Austen's original or pushing it past her socially constrained boundaries. (USA Today -- Life)
This partnership will be in the spotlight when the season kicks off Sept. 20 with Baker's production of the classic Jane Austen story Pride and Prejudice. With numerous productions on the side stages, the main stage will see a total of six plays. (Edmonton Sun)
Despite the fact that there almost had to be some people who watched the American baseball games in 1874 who were alive when Jane Austen wrote Northanger Abbey with its reference to baseball in 1798, no one seemed to know what to make of this strange game the Colonials were playing. Nowhere in any of the literature about the trip does there appear any reference of someone exclaiming, this bloody game looks like something I played when I was a nipper. (Philadelphia, TheInsiders.com)
"I think the diversity of the list is really encouraging. I read everything from Jane Austen to Grazia magazine and if you asked adults the same question we've asked teenagers you wouldn't expect James Joyce and Dostoevsky to be there.". Predictably, the most loathed read is homework. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Instead, the service has contentedly relied upon importing British costume dramas such as "Masterpiece's" current Jane Austen adaptations, whose subject matter underscores the not-so-subtle pressure to "get younger.". In short, amid an explosion of media options, PBS needn't be all things to all people, but it's a valuable complement to obvious gaps in what "the marketplace" provides. (Variety)
Miss Johnson, from Penwortham, in Preston, Lancs, said: "You pick up your characteristics from your donor. My son said when I first had the transplant, I went stroppy and snappy - that wasn't me."I have always loved books but I've started to read classics like Jane Austen and Dostoevsky. I found myself reading Persuasion. (Telegraph.co.uk)
His 1995 Jane Austen adaptation, Sense and Sensibility, received a G rating, which Sony Picture executives said was unacceptable. "They said it would seem like a children's movie," Lee says. (USA Today -- Life)
Television and the worldwide web transmit longlist, shortlist and prize-night news to places whose idea of the British novel was previously confined to Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Second, the prize has helped to sell new fiction by unknown writers and to nourish the garden of British (and Commonwealth) creativity. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
It was kind of a Jane Austen thing. I use a thesaurus, but I'm kind of embarrassed I need it. (Boston Globe)
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Shakespeare s comedies come to mind, as do Jane Austen s perfect novels. Tragedy A character through some flaw or lack of self-understanding is increasingly drawn into a fatal course of action which leads inexorably to disaster. (Suite101.com)
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A Season of Jane Austen ... Published: Monday, March 3, 2008 9:13 AM CST Jane Austen, one of the most popular British novelists who ever lived, has never gone out of print ... Film versions of her six novels are (almost) legion, and within the past year there have been one major film about Austen herself, Becoming Jane, and another about Austen fans, The Jane Austen Book Club. (Thomaston Times, GA)
Until yesterday, the one exception was the late Carol Shields's win in 2002 for her biography of the early 19th century English novelist Jane Austen. Gwyn, a long-time columnist for the Toronto Star, said anger was one of his primary motivations in tackling the life of Canada's first prime minister. (Globe and Mail)
And in Jane Austen novels, young ladies in their elaborate Victorian dress stroll along gravel lined flowerbeds. We tend to overlook the beauty of fine gravel in favor of hard paving. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
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