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A Jane Austen Daydream: A Review
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Mary Anning: Regency Paleontologist
The carpenter’s daughter who became a legend…
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Jane Austen Made Me Do It, Edited by Laurel Ann Nattress
a review by Vic Sanborn
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Almost Persuaded: ITV’s Persuasion
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 challenged [...]
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Northanger Abbey 2007: The Continuing Saga
Another Jane Austen novel is being dusted off for the big screen. This time, Miramax films is co-producing Northanger Abbey. It’s a $9 million feature adaptation of Jane Austen’s first published novel. Shooting begins this fall in Bath, an historic city to about 150 kilometres southwest of London and well-known to Austen. Bath is noted [...]
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Pride and Prejudice 2005: Cinderella Meets Mr. Darcy
Is Pride and Prejudice primarily a Cinderella story? How you answer that question may well determine whether you will enjoy or detest the 2005 Keira Knightley/Matthew Macfadyen film. When spending quality time with Jane Austen’s novel, gentle reader, do you imagine paint peeling from the Bennet family home or picture Longbourn’s back garden as a [...]
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The latest Oxford edition of Emma
Emma. The book of books. A remarkable novel where when a story or character suggestively goes through Emma’s mind since she half-gets it wrong, and sees it partially, we are invited to imagine it whole—so one novel becomes many in potential. Like all the other latest Oxfords, the text here is a reprint of the [...]
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Mansfield Park: An Overview
Henry has finished “Mansfield Park,” and his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume extremely interesting. Jane Austen to Cassandra March 9, 1814 Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who [...]
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Oxford World’s Classics: Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen Gentle readers, here we are again, with diptych reviews of what turns out to be a reissue by Oxford in 2008 of its 2004 edition of Pride and Prejudice. I have complemented Laurel Ann’s review (from Austenprose). Laurel Ann’s review will give an overview of the novel, while I [...]
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Oxford World’s Classics: Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen Introduction by Margaret Anne Doody I was delighted when Laurel of Austenprose asked me to join her in writing reviews of the recent reprint of the Oxford standard editions of Austen’s novels. I’d get to gaze at the different covers, read introductions, notes, appendices, and if any were included, [...]
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