Dominic West reads P & P Proposal Scene

The other day, you were able to hear Greg Wise's reading of Persuasion's "You Pierce My Soul" letter. There is a similar reading of the proposal scene in P & P. This time it features Dominic West.
Click here to watch the P & P video.

Thanks to Janeite Florence for link.

"The Letter" from Persuasion

Greg Wise (1995 Willoughby) Reads "The Letter" from Persuasion


Thank you to JASNA-NY's Janeite Kerri for sharing this link. Plan on 15 minutes of pure enjoyment as Austen's words come to life.

A Woman's Wit Gallery Talk at the Morgan

On November 20th, at 7pm, the Morgan Library in NYC will be having a special Gallery Talk of their exhibit on Jane Austen.

Our CNJ JASNA is planning to attend. If you are interested please contact our e-mail address (listed to the left) for more information.

See you there!

It is a truth universally acknowledged...

that Barnes and Nobel is featuring our Miss Jan'es P&P as the text for their new eBook--Nook! It seems that our good taste is universal.

Check it out at www.barnesandnoble.com/nook

Cheer from Chawton event

The New York Society Library presents

Karen Eterovich

Cheer from Chawton:
A Jane Austen Family Theatrical

with seasonal refreshments

Saturday, December 12, 2:00 p.m.

$20 per person

Jane Austen never traveled more than 200 miles from the town of her birth. She never married, nor left her family. Her novels were not published under her name while she lived. Yet they testify to a person of great wit, insight, and depth. Using original text woven with excerpts from Austen's novels, letters, and juvenilia, together with suitable speech, period movement, costume, and music, Cheer from Chawton reveals the humor, affection, character, and depth of a dependent "old maid" who write, with little fame or remuneration, some of the greatest novels in the English language.

The setting is Chawton Great House, the home of Austen's brother, where the family have gathered for a "theatrical," like the one in Mansfield Park, and instead urge Jane to share her pointed observations on them, their friends, suitors, and society, as well as her own hilarious early efforts as an author.

A member of Screen Actors Guild, Actors' Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild, Karen Eterovich has won international acclaim with her play Love Arm'd: Aphra Behn and Her Pen, which she has performed in over thirty states across American and throughout Europe. She is the writer/performer of Cheer From Chawton and is recognized as an authority on acting in Restoration literature.

JASNA-NY reports: Actress (and JASNA-NY member), Karen Eterovich, will be performing at the New York Society Library(NYSL) December 12, 2009 at 2pm. NYSL is saving 30 seats for JASNA members.

If you would like to attend, please register by contacting the Events Office at 212-288-6900 x230 or events@nysoclib.org, indicating your JASNA membership and the number in your party. The cost of this event is $20.

The New York Society Library

53 East 79th Street New York, New York (at Madison Avenue)

http://www.nysoclib.org/

Thanks JASNA-NY for sharing!

November Wallpaper

Looking back at Ackermann's Repository. The original Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c. was published monthly from 1809-1829 and featured a pair of fashion plates in addition to other illustrations and articles covering a variety of topics. These delicate aquatint illustrations and lovely fashions continue to delight and inspire us two hundred years later.

Throughout 2009, new desktop wallpapers will be posted each month showcasing two fashion plates: one from 1809 and the other from a different year during Jane Austen's lifetime. Enjoy a year-long tour through this popular late Georgian-Regency publication!

http://www.solitary-elegance.com/

Women's Health Issues in Jane Austen's Time

"Ah! my poor dear child, the truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. Emma I:XII


JASNY-NY is hosting a JA birthday celebration meeting on Dec 5 at 2pm at the Midtown Executive Club 40 West 45th Street, NYC.

Dr. Cheryl Kinney will explore the treatment of women's illnesses in Regency England, including childbirth, infectious disease, and venereal disease. We will learn who provided health care in the early 1800s in England and the treatments available. Dr. Kinney will also discuss sickness and health in Austen's novels.

For more information and to register, please visit the JASNA-NY website in the links to the left.

Support One of Our Own!

Show some support for Janeite Susan at a Grand Opening Reception of the Shore Women's Abstract Gallery (SWAG) on Nov. 7 from 5-9pm.

The reception will be held at #6 in the Shoppes at the Arcade, located at 658 Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park.

Janeite Susan will be featured with seven other artists-and judging from the pics I've seen on the web-all very talented like our dear Susan.

Hold the date! Dec 5 at 2pm

Please hold the date-a very special date indeed. The Central New Jersey Chapter of JASNA is planning a Celebratory Meeting in honor of our dear Jane. More details will follow shortly, but save the date!

Dec 5 at 2pm somewhere in historic NJ!

ANOTHER “AUSTEN” FOR CONSIDERATION

Alice Austen (1866-1952) was a pioneering photographer whose subject matter and techniques predate many others in the field. In 1876 at the age of 10, she was given a camera by her uncle and was immediately mesmerized by the new invention. She spent the next 40 years photographing some 8,000 images. She was often seen riding her bicycle around Staten Island and Manhattan, carrying 50 pounds of photography equipment. Her pictures have a realistic and natural quality, rather than the blurry, romantic qualities favored by magazines of her time. Austen tended to photograph people during the course of their normal activities, rather than in conventional studio poses. She is best known for her street photography of immigrants just arrived at Ellis Island, street sweepers, bootblacks, and fishmongers. Her family home, Clear Comfort, is a National Historic Landmark in Staten Island. The Staten Island Historical Society continues to conserve, preserve, and restore the Alice Austen Collection at Historic Richmond. See http://www.aliceausten.org/ for more information.

BBC One's Emma "Behind the Scenes"

Book recommendation: Jane Austen Collection

Amazon.com recently featured the Jane Austen Collection as a wonderful text for every Janeite.

Here is a synopsis of their review: Jane Austen’s novels have proved to be enduring favorites in every medium in which they appear, whether books or movies, comic books or TV mini-series. Works like Emma, Persuasion, and Pride and Prejudice present incomparable portraits of marriageable but discriminating young women, the scoundrels and gentlemen who entrance and confound them, their scheming mothers and hapless fathers — all set in the well-mannered world of early 19th-century British country life. With this collection, fans can enjoy the books anew in audio format. Joanna Lumley, whose Patsy made Absolutely Fabulous a cult hit, aptly showcases the mordant wit of Pride and Prejudice. Anna Massey brings character and vigor to her dramatizations of Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey. Belinda Lang offers a stylish interpretation of Emma, while Harriet Walter evokes Austen in a different mode in her reading of the little-known novella, The Watsons. Musical backgrounds enhance the listener's experience.

Thanks to Janeite Geri for the find!