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YPSILANTI: EMU alum discusses new book, a macabre spin on Jane Austen Heritage Newspapers By Kurt Krug Author Colleen Gleason has very eclectic influences on her work: Joss Whedon and Jane Austen. So, in Gleason's latest work, a novella titled ... See all stories on this topic »

Country diary: The Burren, Ireland The GuardianToday Jane Austen might repeat her words but with a different reference: "It is a truth universally acknowledged ..." that to take a walk entails surprises, ... See all stories on this topic »
The Guardian

Have Some Pride and Prejudice PatchBy Chris Rooney Email the author 1:09pm The Ross Valley Players presents the Jon Jory stage adaptation of Jane Austen's romantic novel “Pride and ...See all stories on this topic »

Movie Trailer Review: 'Jane Eyre' RantRave Published Opinion. Much like any of the novels by Jane Austen, "Jane Eyre" is a story that has been turned into more movies and TV miniseries than I can count (including one ... See all stories on this topic »
RantRave Published Opinion.

Book review: 'Georgette Heyer's Regency World' by Jennifer Kloester Dallas Morning News Jane Austen enthusiasts and readers of Regency romance (and we know who we are) have an excellent new reference in Georgette Heyer's Regency World. ...See all stories on this topic »

Jonathan Franzen TIME At a time when the world of fiction can seem overtaken by wizards, warlocks, Jane Austen zombies and teenage vampires, Jonathan Franzen stands out with his ...See all stories on this topic »
TIME

High school dropouts a diverse crowdEdmonton Journal... George Gershwin, Jane Austen, Thomas Edison, and Aretha Franklin, to name just a few. In addition, if "success" is based purely on monetary standards, ...See all stories on this topic »

Mike White To Direct PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIESDaemon's MoviesPRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, the novel that brought Jane Austen's classic into the world of the zombie apocalypse, may have found it's director. ...See all stories on this topic »
Daemon's Movies

Wayfayers Walking Tours Launch Lit-Centric Strolls for New Season Travel Agent The Jane Austen tour follows on the heels of the lit-centric collection that Wayfayers launched last year, which honored the Brontë sisters. ...See all stories on this topic »

White may direct 'Prejudice And Zombies' Digital Spy The film will be adapted from Seth Grahame-Smith's popular novel, which reworks the Jane Austen classic by interspersing it with zombie references and ...See all stories on this topic »

Jane Austen on Etsy

In getting ready for the holiday season, your humble webmistress thought it might be fun to feature Etsy artisans, so that we can get our favorite Janeites the perfect gift. So from now until Christmas, we will cover an array of Etsy finds...know of one that I missed, send an e-mail so he/she can be featured too.


This delightful image is called "Writing Letters" and is sold by Kecky.

Jane Austen on Etsy

In getting ready for the holiday season, your humble webmistress thought it might be fun to feature Etsy artisans, so that we can get our favorite Janeites the perfect gift. So from now until Christmas, we will cover an array of Etsy finds...know of one that I missed, send an e-mail so he/she can be featured too.

This is called Darcy and is sold by artist Brooke Woolley. Look for her shop here. I think he looks more like Bingley with his blonde curls but who am I to say...

Darcy on Twitter

Ok, I admit it. I'm an Internet addicted Janeite.

So here it is, my latest discovery: Darcy on Twitter (created by the lovely Austen Pride.)

The Colin Firth Darcy is the best, don't you think?

And I love the bio: "Currently unemployed, living off my considerable assets. Dislikes: gold diggers. Likes: lively women with fine eyes."

Following 5 people (so typical)

Followed by 125,000

Updates: 17

Retweet indeed!

Jane on the web

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Does it matter if Jane Austen didn't write Jane Austen's books? Telegraph.co.uk (blog) By Stephen Hough Music Last updated: November 4th, 2010 I tweeted a link to this fascinating article by Anita Singh the other day about whether Jane Austen ...Telegraph.co.uk (blog)

Austen manuscripts 'sloppy' Daily Dispatch Online SHE has been hailed as the perfect English stylist, but Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen was far less polished and more experimental than people

New book features vampire Jane Austen International Business Times By John Dorian November 1, 2010 10:32 PM EDT What happens when English authoress Jane Austen meets a vampire? Australians will soon find out as Jane and International Business Times

John Lennon's Likeness to be Featured on a UK Royal Mint Coin Artistdirect.com John Lennon or Jane Austen? Well, popular vote selected John Lennon's image to be stamped on a commemorative coin sold by the UK Royal Mint.

Sex and the Chester: Paging Jane Austen Washington College Elm However wise and true this statement may have been in lovely Ms. Jane Austen's time, admiration has, over the years, kept a close finger on the pulse of...

Thank You, Jane Austen's Editor! Today Is Hug Your Editor Day Beliefnet.com (blog) That's what we now know about Jane Austen, one of the world's (and my) favorite novelists. Although her brother famously claimed that her books poured out ...Beliefnet.com (blog)

Interview with the Author - Sharon Lathan Examiner.com Sharon Lathan, author of the latest Jane Austen Sequel, In the Arms of Mr. Darcy, is a romance writer with a regency flair. Exploring the lives of Elizabeth ...

Royal Mint issues Lennon commemorative coin Discountvouchers.co.uk The limited edition coin will be the latest in a series of commemorative coins bearing the likenesses of Jane Austen and John Logie Baird, among others. ...

Neil Marshall Vs Mike White Vs Zombies? Empire Online You might not think that a film blending Jane Austen with the groaning, rotting undead and based on Seth Grahame-Smith's larky novel would turn into one of ...

Pride & Prejudice & a White Zombie IGN Like, really old school -- as in, Jane Austen type zombies. Deadline reports that Lionsgate has offered White the helming gig on Pride and Prejudice and ...

Celebrate Dickens Style!

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair kicks off the Friday after Thanksgiving, November 26, for four weekends through Sunday, December 19, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. This “fantastically fun” annual tradition is perhaps the most elaborate and quintessentially “old-fashioned” Christmas event anywhere… and it happens ONLY in the San Francisco Bay Area! Attendance surpassed expectations in 2009, and 2010 predicts over 30,000 visitors.

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Jane Austen treasures

An extremely rare first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma, given by the author to her admired fellow novelist Maria Edgeworth, is to be offered in a Sotheby’s London sale in December. Moreover, the family’s Wedgwood dinner set, which Jane Austen helped to choose, and would herself have used on countless occasions, will also be auctioned. The set has been in family ownership since purchase and is an exceptional opportunity to acquire a unique component of Austen family life. Read full story.

Hold the date! Dec 18 at Connie"s!

We just wanted to remind everyone of our upcoming meeting on December 18 at 2pm at Connie's house in Freehold. We will be discussing Jane Austen's Juvenilia, specificially "Catharine, or the Bower," "Love and Freindship," and "The History of England."

Additionally, we we will be having a "Book Pollyanna" or book present exchange---purchase a book that you would like to recieve in the $7-10 range and wrap it, then we will draw numbers and pick a present. It is a fun way to receive a book that you might enjoy that you would not have picked out yourself.

Also, please bring a light snack to share-cookies or a sweet bread, small veggie tray or chips and salsa--enough for 5-7people. Don't go overboard as there will be lots of us bringing things, plus a birthday cake for Jane Austen's birthday. Just a little treat. :)

More importantly, bring a sense of fun and high spirits for we are celebrating Jane Austen's birthday! Huzzah!

Jane on the Web

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Jane Austen's elegant style 'may not be hers' BBC News The elegant writing style of novelist Jane Austen may have been the work of her editor, an academic has claimed. Professor Kathryn Sutherland of Oxford

Apples a not-so-standard standby Toronto Sun By ELIZABETH BAIRD, Special to QMI Agency "Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness," according to Jane Austen.

Jane Austen + Zombies = Gold MoviesOnline This version takes place at the same time as the Jane Austen book, but it just pretends that zombies have been a part of English life for quite some time.

When Mockery Is All That's Left Wall Street Journal This year, "Jane Austen's Fight Club" turned up on YouTube, with young ladies in empire-waisted frocks pummeling one another—just imagine Quentin Tarantino

Jewish Funhouse Mirror Is Alive and Not So Well New York Times... like to write like Jane Austen, with a little bit of Yiddish,” adding that he'd rather be called “the Jewish Jane Austen” than “the English Philip Roth.

Austen Found; musical with an eighteenth century twist National Business Review Don't be fooled by the title and the publicity, this little entertainment has very little to do with Jane Austen. It would be better to have called it The

Jane Austen lecture Gainsborough Standard... and District Decorative and Fine Art Society's monthly lecture to speak on the perennially popular subject of Jane Austen, her life and writing. Gainsborough Standard

"Heroine's Bookshelf" a lift in tough times Denver Post... her favorite literary ladies, as well as their authors' own lives, in "The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life's Lessons from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Brian Southam

Brian Southam, Chairman of the British Jane Austen Society died on October 5, 2010. Elsa Solender, Past JASNA President, Past NY Metro coordinator, has written the following:
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Brian Southam (1931-2010)
Brian Southam, chairman of the British Jane Austen Society (JAS) from 1990 to 2005, died quietly in France on October 5. He had suffered earlier heart attacks.
A student of Mary Lascelles at Oxford, Southam became an Austen devotee after being afforded privileged access to Volume the Second of her juvenilia, which had been closely held by Austen family members. He taught briefly before entering publishing. In 1980 he purchased Athlone Press, which he served as managing director until his retirement in 2000. As an independent researcher, he wrote extensively on Austen's life, family and manuscripts, as well as the indispensable Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage. His most widely used book, however, was his Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot.

Southam co-edited, with JASNA co-founder J. David Grey and Professor A. Walton Litz, The Jane Austen Companion, a compendium of "everything Austen" published in 1986 before filmed adaptations stimulated "Austen-mania" and the explosion of popular and scholarly interest in Austen.

His lecture at JASNA's 2003 AGM in Winchester, "Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers: Francis and Charles in her Life and Art," drew upon his volume Jane Austen and the Navy. His study of "Professions" in Austen's era appeared in the Context volume of the recent Cambridge Edition. Of late, he was studying Austen's seaside experiences, including Austen family mentions of a romantic encounter at Sidmouth.

Under Southam's leadership, the JAS developed closer ties with JASNA and qualified officially as a British educational and cultural charity.
Messages of condolence may be sent to:
Mrs. Doris Southam
c/o Maureen Stiller, JAS Secretary
20 Parsonage Road,
Henfield, West Sussex BN5 9JG,
UK

- Elsa Solender

Book Suggestion

A Walk with Jane Austen

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In this engaging, deeply personal and well-researched travelogue, Smith (a PW contributor) journeys to England to soak in the places of Jane Austen's life and writings. The book is sure to ride the wave of Austen-philia that has recently swept through Hollywood and a new generation of Americans, but this is an unusual look at Jane Austen. Readers will learn plenty of biographical details-about Austen's small and intimate circle of family and friends, her candid letters to her sister, her possible loves and losses, her never-married status, her religious feelings, and her untimely death at the age of 41. But it is the author's passionate connection to Jane-the affinity she feels and her imaginings of Austen's inner life-that bring Austen to life in ways no conventional biographer could. Smith's voice swings authentically between the raw, aching vulnerability of a single Christian woman battling a debilitating and mysterious chronic illness and the surges of faith she finds in the grace of a loving God. And yes, she even meets a potential Darcy at the start of her journey. This deliciously uncertain romantic tension holds the book together as Smith weaves her own thoughts, historical research, and fitting references to Austen's novels into a satisfying whole. (Oct. 16) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Janeite Maureen's Pics of AGM

Here is a link to Janeite Maureen's gallery of AGM pictures. Please enjoy!

Jane on the Web

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Early edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice auctioned for £140000 Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter A first edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has fetched a record £139250 at auction, more than 150000 times its original ...Daily Mail

Manuscripts Suggest Jane Austen Had A Great Editor NPR English novelist Jane Austen is known for her polished prose, but her handwritten manuscripts reveal some telling grammatical errors. ...

Jane Austen's Work Heavily Edited? WTMA An expert who has studied 1100 pages of Jane Austen's handwritten work says the woman who gave us Lizzy Bennett, Mr. Darcy, Miss Bates, Emma Woodhouse,

Jane Austen's messy handwriting online Toronto Star According to new research, beloved novelist Jane Austen, renowned for Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Emma, couldn't spell worth a damn.

Attack on Jane Austen's genius shows neither sense nor sensibility The Guardian (blog) Or, if you believe the story that Jane Austen did not herself hone sentences like the one I have just ripped off from Pride and Prejudice, indeed 'tis most The Guardian (blog)

Celebrating Jane Austen in Oregon Los Angeles Times (blog) Janites are gathering in Portland, Ore., this weekend -- Janites, for the uninitated, are Jane Austen enthusiasts -- for the annual Jane Austen Conference.

Harmon speaks about the life and works of Jane Austen Indiana Statesman Claire Harman discussed her book about the life and work of Jane Austen Thursday in Root Hall. Jane Austen is considered by some to be one of the most ...

Jane Austen fans descend on Portland for lectures and 'grande promenade'OregonLive.comView full sizeThe OregonianPauline Beard and Susan Schwartz, two organizers of the Jane Austen Society of North America's annual meeting, at the Multnomah ...OregonLive.com

Is Jane Austen being pushed aside by Jodi Picoult? And isn't it time to ...Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)Is it time to update school reading lists with modern fiction or should we stick with Jane Austen? I think we lose kids by foisting dusty tomes on them that ...Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

Jane Austen - the first draft Telegraph.co.uk You could buy a decent husband for that, in Jane Austen's day. By Allison Pearson How it could have been: i am gr8ly vexed @ yr dissmissal of my caracter.

Breaking news: Jane Austen was human!

Fresh off the presses at Versailles and More:

It has made the rounds of the major media worlwide (see the BBC, for instance.) Even Le Monde mentions it, and yet Jane Austen is not a household name in France. In 21st century parlance, the story has become “viral.”




So yes, Professor Kathryn Sutherland, of Oxford University, reveals that Jane revised her manuscripts, as evident on this image. Imagine that! Professor Sutherland further discloses that Jane’s publishers also edited her books for spelling and grammatical errors.

Well, this is the case for most novelists, this one included. Some scenes in my own novels have been rewritten dozens of times, though only my laptop can bear witness to my travails. My publisher provided me with editors and copy editors, all of whom, as their titles indicate, edited my novels. I never believed I was alone in this situation, nor did it make me think that the style of my works was not mine.

Truth be told, I had always surmised that Jane Austen was human. I know some in Janeite circles consider her an intellectual Superwoman, gifted with a steel-trap memory, an encyclopedic knowledge of the science and literature of her time, a thorough understanding of the subtleties of Hebrew and other languages, to mention a few of her accomplishments. Far, far beyond what Darcy and Miss Bingley ever imagined…
Others, like James Collins in this Wall Street Journal piece, consider Austen a moral guide for the 21st century. Certainly Jane Austen makes us reflect about issues of morality, money and social conventions, but why should we assume that she, any more than any other novelist, strictly espoused the views, likes and dislikes of her protagonists? Jane wrote fiction, not sermons. Unlike Fanny Price, she enjoyed family theatricals, and, to my knowledge, no Austen family members eloped as a result thereof. What would Jane do? Probably get a good laugh at much of what is written about her nowadays.

On the bright side, we now have an online digital edition of Austen’s manuscripts that “gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand.”

“Through digital reunification,” indicates the site, “it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections. Unlike the famous printed novels, all published in a short span between 1811 and 1818, these manuscripts trace Jane Austen’s development as a writer from childhood to the year of her death; that is, from 1787 (aged 11 or 12) to 1817 (aged 41). Not only do they provide a unique visual record of her imagination from her teenage experiments to her last unfinished writings, these pages represent one of the earliest collections of creative writings in the author’s hand to survive for a British novelist.”

Isn’t this wonderful?

Thanks Catherine Delors for this marvelous post!

Attic Sale at Mr. Darcy’s House!

Chatsworth House, one of England’s most magnificent stately homes, has hosted a variety of filming, most notably Pride and Prejudice in which it represented Pemberley, Mr. Darcy’s estate. Now they will feature an attic sale — an Aladdin’s cave of items at all price levels, each one with its own story to tell. From the 5th -7th October, Sotheby’s will hold an auction, Chatsworth: The Attic Sale, of contents from the attics of this historic estate, comprising property from almost every category of art, in the grounds of Chatsworth.

Included in the sale is a wealth of fine, rare architectural fixtures and fittings discovered beneath layers of dust in the Chatsworth attics. These magnificent pieces – handsomely carved fireplaces, architraves, doors and shutters – were once part of the fabric of the many great houses that have featured in the Devonshire family’s extraordinary history, including Chatsworth itself, Chiswick House, Hardwick Hall, Lismore Castle, Compton Place, Bolton Abbey and, most of all, their palatial London residence, Devonshire House, on Piccadilly, which for centuries was the centre of London’s social, political and cultural elite. Read full illustrated story.

Vogue Magazine Shoots “Fashioning Fashion”

Vogue editor Lisa Love visits LACMA for a behind-the-scenes peek at Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. The exhibition will tell the story of fashion’s aesthetic and technical development from the Age of Enlightenment to World War I. The exhibition opens at LACMA on October 2nd, 2010 in the new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion.