Tag Archives: Persuasion

Ebay Jane Austen Auction outcomes

Posted by David | Published: March 28, 2012
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Film costumes are being despatched to all parts of the globe this week as the ebay Jane Austen costume winners celebrate their good fortune.

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Film Costumes up for Auction on Ebay

Posted by David | Published: March 14, 2012
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A selection Jane Austen Film Costumes from BAFTA and Emmy award winning designer Andrea Galer go up for auction on ebay in March.

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Almost Persuaded: ITV’s Persuasion

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: July 18, 2011
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Translate  The game is afoot in ITV’s Persuasion as Anne Elliot (Sally Hawkins) speed walks down a maze of hallways in Kellynch and jogs down the streets of Bath in what was, presumably, the film makers’ attempt to add action and energy to Jane Austen’s posthumously published 1817 classic. No doubt, the film’s creators felt [...]

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Persuasion: An Overview

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: July 17, 2011
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Translate  Persuasion is Jane Austen’s last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August, 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817, but Persuasion was not published until 1818. Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in [...]

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Tatting and Lace Making

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

Create your own handmade lace

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Behind the Scenes: Northanger Abbey

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

How this book came to be printed

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Ponderous Obsequity

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

Mr. Collins as a Mirror, held to the face of Society

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Jane By Any Other Name

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

Primarily an English novelist, how is Austen recieved in other countries?

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In Praise of Jane

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

Translate  I often wonder what Jane Austen would have thought if she’d known quite how much her books would still be enjoyed two hundred years after she’d written them, and also whether she would have approved of the many tributes in the form of continuations, sequels, mash-ups, and the many film and television adaptations that [...]

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Biographical Notice of the Author

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

Henry Austen’s touching tribute to his Sister

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