Weekly Round-Up…All Things Austen

Austenprose celebrated its first anniversary this week… so we offer hearty congratulations to Laurel Ann for her consistently insightful “musings” with hopes that she shall continue to enlighten us every day with her “celebration of the brilliance of Jane Austen’s writing.”  It has been an especially fine month of Gothic doings delving into the hidden [...]

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A Haunting in Bath ~ an Austen-related Halloween

Thanks to Georgie Lee’s blog for this mention:  for information on the “Ghosts of Bath”, visit Hollow Hill, one of the web’s oldest sites for Ghosts and all things spooky… the man in the black hat in the Assembly Rooms; the coach drawn by four horses in the Royal Crescent; the ghost of the Theatre Royal and Garrick’s [...]

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Dickens & Davies

Tonight is the start of the BBC production of Dickens’ Little Dorrit [BBC 1, 8pm].  Andrew Davies, in yet another lavish costume drama of a classic, brings to the small screen Dickens’ tale of financial ruin, love, and mystery all rolled into one …  one hopes that by bringing this long-forgotten masterpiece back to life,  Davies will [...]

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“Between the Covers” ~ Magazine Exhibition in London

There is a new exhibition at the Women’s Library in East London:  “Between the Covers: Women’s Magazines and their Readers” chronicling the history of women’s magazines since 1600 in the U.K..  See this article on the exhibit at the Newham Recorder, and then visit the Library.  Hopefully there will be a catalogue of the exhibition which [...]

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Debut of “Pride & Prejudice, the New Musical”

The long-awaited and much talked about Pride & Prejudice, The New Musical finally had its first run last night in Rochester NY… read a review at the online Rochester City Newspaper.  And read more about it at the play’s website.

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Letter no. 3 ~ “Scene of Dissipation & Vice”

Letter No. 3.  August 23, 1796 Jane (in Cork Street, London) to Cassandra (Steventon? not noted) Boston Public Library (since 1966) There has been a gap of seven months since Letter no. 2 (of January 1796), but Letter 3 finds Jane in London, likely staying at at the home of Benjamin Langlois in Cork Street (see [...]

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Round-up…all things Austen, and a few others besides

This is a great mishmash, as I have been a tad out of the loop these past two weeks ( I think I am still in 19th-century mode after 4 glorious days in Chicago…), so please excuse the the lack of any order (and perhaps sense) in this selection… *As always, I direct you first to [...]

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Adventures Befalling a Janeite in Chicago ~ Day 4

Diary ~ Day Four:  Brunch & Music & Darcy & Farewells / Final Thoughts  Early morning RC meeting, another helpful gathering…I am returning home with a suitcase full of ideas (not to mention those books!)    Off to Brunch and “A Conversation about Creativity, Collaboration, and Creaking Doors”  JASNA announcements including awarding prizes for the [...]

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Adventures Befalling a Janeite in Chicago ~ Day 3

Diary ~ Day Three:  Filled with Talks, Banquets & Balls (and a little side of Romance!) The Plenary this morning featured Claudia Johnson, on Can We Ever have Enough of Jane Austen? Professor Johnson, chairman of Princeton University’s English Department and author of several books of Austen scholarship (and especially appreciated by this blog writer [...]

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Cassandra & Jane (a review)

“When I am gone…,” Jill Pitkeathley’s Cassandra Austen muses on the letters written to her by her sister Jane. “When I am gone, perhaps before, they will want them, they will pour over them, examine them in detail and discuss them without limit.” Who would Cassandra’s they have been? She may immediately have thought of [...]

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