Today in ‘Pride & Prejudice’ ~ Inquiring Readers Want to Know…

According to Ellen Moody’s calendar for Pride & Prejudice , it is on Friday / Saturday, Sept 4 -5, 1812, that Elizabeth writes to her Aunt Gardiner for an explanation of Lydia’s reference to Mr. Darcy’s attendance at her wedding:  Vol. III, ch. IX, 319-20 (Chapman).    ”Mr. Darcy!” repeated Elizabeth, in utter amazement.     “Oh, yes! – he was [...]

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Pride & Prejudice in Utah

News Alert from Utah:  from Utah Public Radio Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has become part of the canon of Western literature, and it has a huge fan following. Why does this story still speak to us today, in both the original novel form and its many adaptations? We’ll explore the subject with four guests: [...]

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Jane Austen’s ‘Own Darling Child’

Laurel Ann at her Austenprose blog is currently posting a month-long group read through Pride & Prejudice – do visit and join in the discussion! – she is as always an insightful reader and discussion leader, and what better way to spend the first month of summer musing on P&P and the finer points of [...]

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Marvel-Mania yet again! ~ the ‘Pride & Prejudice’ Comic Book

I have posted in the past on the Marvel Comics five issue series of Pride & Prejudice [you can see these posts here: issues one, two, three, four, and five] ~ but now the hardcover issue is available for purchase at your local comic book store.  It is a lovely book, with a dust jacket [...]

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Starring in ‘Pride & Prejudice’ …. YOU!

Have you always wanted to actually BE Elizabeth Bennet? – sitting at the  pianoforte [playing just passably] with Mr. Darcy staring at you from across the room? or having the gumption to turn down his first marriage proposal, despite those £10,000? or how about putting your mother-in-law in the shoes of Lady Catherine? or your snobbiest acquaintance in those [...]

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Holy Austen, Batman! Pride & Prejudice #5

Get thee hence to your local comic book store tomorrow [August 12, 2009], as the fifth and final issue of the Marvel Comics Pride & Prejudice is released: COVER BY: Sonny Liew WRITER: Nancy Butler PENCILS: Hugo Petrus INKS: Hugo Petrus COLORED BY: Aubrey Sitterson LETTERED BY: Dave Sharpe  THE STORY:  All good things come [...]

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A Jane Austen Weekend in Vermont!

The Governor’s House in Hyde Park will be hosting another Jane Austen event next weekend on August 14-16 ~ topic is Pride & Prejudice. Jane Austen Weekend: Pride and Prejudice* The Governor’s House in Hyde Park Friday to Sunday, Aug. 14 – 16 [also the weekends of  Sept. 11 - 13, 2009 and Jan. 8 - [...]

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Holy Austen, Batman! ~ Pride & Prejudice # 4

News Alert!  Issue 4 to be released today July 8, 2009! COVER BY: Sonny Liew WRITER: Nancy Butler PENCILS: Hugo Petrus INKS: Hugo Petrus COLORED BY: Aubrey Sitterson|Aubrey Sitterson LETTERED BY: Dave Sharpe ****************************** NOTE:  a hardcover edition of the 5 issues will be released later this year on November 11, 2009!! And here is [...]

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Auction Results ~ Austen on the Block

The Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice  for sale at the New York Bloomsbury Auction of June 23, 2009 with an estimate of $50,000. – $70, 000.  remains unsold [for more details on this see my original post here] A quick summary of a few other items of interest: Bronte [Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell] : . Poems. [...]

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Austen on the Block

314. [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817).] Pride and Prejudice: a Novel in Three Volumes. London: T. Egerton, 1813. 3 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles. Contemporary dark brown sprinkled calf, brown endpapers, gilt volume numbers to spine, green morocco gilt lettering pieces to style, with “Charleton” gilt-stamped to upper cover; half morocco folding case. Condition: intermittent foxing; rebacked preserving original [...]

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