Enid Blyton's given the Noddy Aug 20, 2008
Jane Austen was fourth, Shakespeare fifth and Charles Dickens sixth. Share this article. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Enid Blyton voted Britain's favourite author Aug 19, 2008
With the top three of the poll dominated by children's authors, Jane Austen came fourth and Shakespeare was fifth, while authors such as Philip Pullman and James Bond creator Ian Fleming failed to make the top 50. The poll of 2,000 adults was commissioned to mark the 2008 Costa Book Awards. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Romance-writing hopefuls discuss craft in S.F. Aug 19, 2008
Whatever the genre, Jane Austen remains the gold standard. "When my editor told me, 'You write like Jane Austen,' my daughters knew what it meant to me," said Janelle Ashley, a Marin author of inspirational romance fiction who calls "Pride and Prejudice" her favorite book. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Entertainment Offered During Education Week Aug 19, 2008
Pride and Prejudice: A Musical, based on the Jane Austen novel is a new musical with lyrics written by Deborah L. Morris and music by Ann Kapp Andersen. It plays Tuesday through Friday evenings in the De Jong Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.. (The Daily Universe, UT)
Letters to the editor (8/17/08) Aug 18, 2008
Dowd's Jane Austen argument shows no sense or sensibility. Maureen Dowd has turned my favorite book, "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, into a political travesty in her Aug. 5 column, "Obama's pride gets in candidate's way.". (Anchorage Daily News)
How rich breeders shaped the world Aug 15, 2008
" This is how the process worked, according to Clark. The average Briton in 1800 ate only as much as the hunter-gatherers did. Life expectancy at birth was close to the 35 years found for hunter-gatherers. Height is a good measure of nutrition and health. Men in England averaged 67 inches (170 centimetres), the same as European males in the Stone Age. Foragers satisfy their material wants with small amounts of work. But the modest comforts of the English in 1800 were purchased only through... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
LETTER: Leftist leaders succeed in 'hate training' Aug 12, 2008
The Question wrote on Aug 11, 2008 9:58 AM:" I'm afraid "psychologists" don't explain anything of the kind. Too bad no one informed the author of this screed that the word sensibility MEANS emotion, specifically awareness of and responsiveness toward emotion and refined or excessive sensitiveness in emotion and taste with special responsiveness to the pathetic. The term this man wants is reason or rationality, but Im not surprised that he isnt acquainted with it. He is equally uninformed about... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Words in progress Aug 12, 2008
Marc Acito, an Oregon Book Award-winning novelist, sometimes writes at the inn, where 20 rooms pay homage to Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Jane Austen and other luminaries. But so do everyday travelers. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
College Classes for Conservatives to Avoid Aug 12, 2008
Did we study the classic works of historys best female authors, such as the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen. Nah. (Townhall.com)
Obama's Arugula Gap Aug 11, 2008
Among women in June 2000, Al Gore was ahead of George Bush by nine points. In June 2004, Kerry was ahead of George Bush by one point in a poll of women voters, and in June 2008, Barack Obama was ahead of John McCain by fourteen points. (Human Events Online)
Master of sex and sensibility Aug 9, 2008
I DON'T OBJECT TO THAT sort of slightly cartoonish description of me as 'the man who sexed up the classics'," says Andrew Davies blithely. We sit beside a desk strewn with books; the real centre of operations, source of scripts for half the television adaptations you can remember, is next door. At 71, Davies is rosy-faced and avuncular, but he certainly has quite a glint in his eye when we get on the subject of racy subtexts in the perfectly respectable books he has adapted. "I think that so... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Torn between two lovers Aug 9, 2008
As with Miles Franklin in My Brilliant Career, Jane Austen places her writing above marriage in Becoming Jane. Director Julian Jarrold has said that the appeal of films about writers comes from the insights into brilliant minds. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Mini movie reviews Aug 8, 2008
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Ang Lee takes Venice Golden Lion Aug 7, 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)
A Few Titles by Jane Austen Aug 6, 2008
The novels of 19th century novelist Jane Austen share a piercing satire, eloquent wit, and wonderful characterization. The novels, however, vary in several ways. (Suite101.com)
Senior Notes (Aug. 7) Aug 5, 2008
Friday, Aug. 8, at 1 p.m., The Jane Austen Book Club Monday, Aug. 11, at 1 p.m., The Roman Holiday. Friday, Aug. 15, at 1 p.m., The Bucket List. (Needham Tab, MA)
Maureen Dowd: Mr. Darcy comes courting Aug 3, 2008
Like the leading man of Jane Austen and Bridget Jones, Obama can, as Austen wrote, draw "the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien. ... He was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased.". The master of Pemberley "had yet to learn to be laughed at," and this sometimes caused "a deeper... (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Senior Notes (July 31) Jul 29, 2008
Friday, Aug. 8, at 1 p.m., The Jane Austen Book Club. Chair volleyball league. (Needham Tab, MA)
Fans of "Twilight" vampire series pump new blood into Forks Jul 27, 2008
PART YOUNG ROMANCE, part folklore "Jane Austen meets Bram Stoker," as one reviewer put it the series revolves around high schooler Bella Swan, who falls for vampire Edward Cullen after moving to Forks. Throughout "Twilight" and sequels "New Moon"and "Eclipse," Bella contends with stalking vampires along with typical concerns such as the prom, as well as a larger issue whether to join Edward in immortality. (Seattle Times)
When will there be any news? Jul 26, 2008
When will there be any news. - Books - Entertainment - smh. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Stephenie Meyer: Mormon who put new life into vampires Jul 22, 2008
Accordingly, her books, in the words of one critic, are full of sexual tension but remain 'as decorous as Jane Austen. The intersection of vampirism and Mormonism has caused some comment among other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Raisin d'etre Jul 21, 2008
In the past three years, James McAvoy has played Idi Amin's fictional doctor, Jane Austen's youthful suitor and the tragic hero of an adapted Ian McEwan novel ... Maybe that's why I like Jane Austen stories where being buff is considered ill-bred. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Want to know how to lose me as a friend? Just buy me a book and say: 'This is so you' Jul 21, 2008
No one's going to ask me to adapt Jane Austen. Regretfully, I turn down the movie adaptation and my dreams of a pool in LA fade to nothing. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
DailyLit Publishes 1000th Book and Unveils Customer Ratings and Book Reviews Jul 17, 2008
DailyLit's 1000 titles include classics like Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen as well as contemporary works in many genres, from language learning titles like Berlitz Spanish Lessons to the best-selling Skinny Bitch. "1000 titles and going strong!" commented Susan Danziger, CEO of DailyLit. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Writers' rooms: Jane Austen Jul 13, 2008
Not long before her death, Jane Austen described her writing as being done with a fine brush on a "little bit (not two inches wide) of ivory". Her novels are not miniatures, but she did work on a surface not so much bigger than those two imagined inches of ivory. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Disney films 'have lost innocence' Jul 13, 2008
Her 2004 Bollywood-style retelling of a Jane Austen classic, Bride and Prejudice, has now become a cult film in America, scoring as one of the top DVDs rented by teenage girls who are hosting a 'slumber party. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is based on a popular teen novel by Louise Rennison and tells of the trials of adolesence through the eyes of Georgia Nicolson, unofficial leader of the Ace Gang. (Guardian Unlimited)
Software for Social Networking Sites Jul 6, 2008
So far, Wilburn said, most of these applications are "self-actualizing." They express an individual's preferences, whether they be political candidates, television shows or Jane Austen novels. BlenderHouse aims to create more give-and-take on social sites and create a place to interact for far-flung friends who don't have time for long group e-mails soliciting feedback on big decisions. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
Cuisine can bring you together Jul 4, 2008
My love of Jane Austen, for instance. My mom s recipe for hamburger pie, a casserole dish that has Joseph heading for the door. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Starz Entertainment's Weekly Hot Items List July 14-20 Jul 4, 2008
Saturday, July 19 Starz Saturday Premiere Becoming Jane (Anne Hathaway, James Cromwell, James McAvoy) 9 p.m. on Starz Young novelist Jane Austen, struggling to get published, begins a secret romance with a handsome, but poor, Irish lawyer in early 19th century Britain. Sunday, July 20 Sunday Comics A double-feature on Starz Comedy each Sunday night to lead into the "Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up" series which airs Wednesday nights on Starz. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Kat Richardson On Seriosuly Pursuin... Jul 3, 2008
Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, traditional fairy tales and myths, Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas (pere et fils), Isaac Asimov, Ron Goulart, Ellery Queen, and C.M. Kornbluth. Had you finished the manuscript for Greywalker before it was picked up by ROC. (Suite101.com)
What's the score, eh? Jul 2, 2008
Although nearly four in 10 respondents picked out the Canadian author from a list containing Susanna Moodie, Jane Austen and Harriet Beecher Stowe, a third still chose Ms. Austen, known for her frock-coated chronicles of 18th- and 19th-century English society. Only marginally fewer pointed to Ms. Stowe, author of the abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, as a Canuck. (Globe and Mail)
Bride and Prejudice Jun 28, 2008
As if to complement the ABC's series of Sunday-night Jane Austen adaptations, here is Gurinder Chadha's Bollywood version of Austen's most beloved novel, Pride and Prejudice. Instead of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, it's Lalita Bakshi (former model and star Aishwarya Rai) and William Darcy (Martin Henderson). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
F-bombs, coarse words don't impress me at all Jun 28, 2008
She was a contemporary woman who time-traveled back to Jane Austen's era and met Mr. Darcy of "Pride and Prejudice" fame ... KVPT Channel 18 airs "Masterpiece Theater," and the station recently showed a series of movies based on the works of Jane Austen ... If the f-word is the best they can come up with to express a strong emotion, I'd rather escape to Jane Austen's world. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Too many words, so little space Jun 25, 2008
After all, there was no football on the TV. Even Jane Austen must have been riveting in comparison with the click of knitting needles and the tick of the grandfather clock. It wouldn't have mattered how long it took the plot to unfold; it was still better than no plot. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Rare copy of Austen's 'Emma' sets auction record Jun 25, 2008
The classic novel by Jane Austen was sold for $353,500 ... A rare presentation copy of Jane Austen's novel "Emma" sold for 180,000 pounds ($353,500), setting a new auction record for a printed book by the British author, auction house Bonhams said on Tuesday. (MSNBC -- News)
Breathless in her praise for the pie Jun 24, 2008
06m) made up for the surprisingly modest performance of the Jane Austen bonnet drama Northanger Abbey (931,000). The other national broadcaster, SBS, is also doing well, thanks to Top Gear (826,000) and Food Safari (443,000). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A chick's world Jun 22, 2008
" Trollope believes chick lit started far earlier than Bridget Jones, beginning with many women's ultimate literary heroine - Jane Austen. "What else was Jane Austen but a writer of romantic comedy. " she asked. "And these days, the best of the genre does measure up to good literature. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Change and loss Jun 21, 2008
"India has never been as foreign a place to the English," she says, "because of the history and the past, the colonial past. It's still a very distant place, but in the collective consciousness it exists on some level. The attitudes may have been horrible or benign or anything in between, but the mere fact that it existed as something that you would find mentioned in a Jane Austen novel - that's not something you're going to find in Hawthorne or Melville.". Not long after she was born, though,... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
NMHS top students looking ahead Jun 20, 2008
"My favorite author is Jane Austen, I think," the petite senior added. "Reading is a family tradition. So I really like it a lot." She was also a member of the track and field team. (New Milford Times, CT)
The Edge of Love: in Dylan Thomas country Jun 17, 2008
Despite the name (it means big house) the hotel is small, but it is really rather good: forget Dylan Thomas, think Jane Austen. It boasts a Keira Knightley Room. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Austen's powers Jun 15, 2008
Felicity Jones as Catherine Moreland and JJ Field as Henry Tilney in Jane Austen's ... What is it about Jane Austen ... Felicity Jones as Catherine Moreland and JJ Field as Henry Tilney in Jane Austen's Trouble under the bonnet Jun 14, 2008
IS THE audience for Jane Austen adaptations comprised entirely of women ... All the women of Wisteria Lane are like Jane Austen's twittering faulty back-up singers ... His heroic gesture was unabashed Jane Austen. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A son struggles as dad nears death Jun 13, 2008
Firth, the dreamboat of a million Jane Austen fans for his Darcy in the BBC "Pride and Prejudice," plays Blake's crisis as emotional constipation. As Arthur lays dying - and the film is good about putting across the smell of the sickroom - the son's frozen face rarely conveys the contradictory passions raging inside. (Boston Globe)
Not the real Mr Darcy Jun 12, 2008
is the man Jane Austen had in mind when she wrote Pride and Prejudice ... Reading about Lefroy's later career as a rabidly anti-Catholic bigot in Ireland, I find it hard to believe this was a man that anyone as progressive, for her time, as Jane Austen (eg being anti-slavery, believing in dignity and respect being a necessity for women in marriage, etc) could have loved. (guardian.co.uk)
Sedaris' 'Flames' burns up the chart Jun 12, 2008
She started writing romances set in early 19th-century Britain after college because "I liked reading them, writers like Amanda Quick, Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen. I loved the witty repartee." Her fellow Ivy Leaguers think her career is cool, she says, though sometimes she gets asked, " 'Are a lot of bodices ripped in your books?' But I don't do that kind of novel.". Posted. (USA Today -- Life)
A tiny token of Austen's big love Jun 11, 2008
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 fictionalised for the movie Becoming Jane, released last year with Anne Hathaway as the writer and James McAvoy as the lawyer. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A dotcom for mating dogs Jun 11, 2008
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)
Check out our new Weather Vent Jun 11, 2008
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)
Cool SchoolBaltimore Lab set to graduate its first senior class Jun 5, 2008
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
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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)
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