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Hello everyone, I’m slowly recovering from the fantastic Jane Austen Festival of last month. 98% of the events throughout the ten days were sold out and some were so popular they could have been sold twice – I will have to put more events on next year I guess. There will be lots of pics on the festival website soon – watch this space.

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Jackie Herring

*Many thanks again to 'austenblog' and it's contributors for keeping the newsletter informed of some of the many events and happenings in the world of Jane Austen.
 A New Book by Maggie Lane 
Immortal Jane Austen Even after 200 years, Jane Austen continues to amuse and delight generations of readers. In this book Maggie Lane tells the wonderful story of Jane Austen's brief but intense life and how imagination shaped her six immortal novels.
With beautiful colour illustrations throughout, this is an excellent ‘introductory’ book about Jane Austen. 
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 Do you like Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen
 Here’s a lovely collage to the soundtrack of the Police and their worldwide hit. Keira Knightley also looks great.
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  Jane Austen's 'Batman' – say that again. 
Batman
  
We all know how it usually goes, but just imagine, if you will, the verbal dueling between the ever righteous caped crusader and his arch enemy the Joker in a Regency/Austen style. It is really good.
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 Kim Hicks delivers a monologue from ‘Northanger Abbey’
Kim Hicks

 

An out take from the recently released ‘Crazy about Jane’ DVD of the 2007 Jane Austen Festival in Bath. An extremely engaging performance.

Purchase 'Crazy about Jane' here
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 Anne Stott on Mr Bennet in 'Pride and Prejudice'
Benjamin Whitrow

 

Mr Bennet, perhaps the wittiest character in the whole canon of English literature (‘Discuss’), is also the most culpable of her inadequate fathers. He, of all of them, should have known better!
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 In the next issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World
Colin Donnell
 The next great issue of Jane Austen's Regency World is published at the beginning of November and includes features on how Jane Austen survived the Regency credit crunch, a preview of ‘Pride & Prejudice: the Musical’, reviews of the TV series ‘Lost in Austen’ and an in depth look at the life and times of the great seducer Casanova - plus all the regular News, Views and Letters.
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 A lovely poem about Jane Austen by W H Auden to Lord Byron
W H Auden
 But I decided I'd give a fright to
Jane Austen if I wrote when I'd no right to,
And share in her contempt the dreadful fates
Of Crawford, Musgrove, and of Mr. Yates.
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 From our online magazine - a ‘sinfully’ rich fruitcake
Fruitcake
 Fruitcakes proliferated until a law restricted them to Christmas, weddings, and a few other holidays because they were considered "sinfully" rich.
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Brothers and Sisters
Quiz
A take on the theme of this year’s JASNA conference.
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