Fun Friday - Standiton The Play

While digging around on the internet I found this:


http://www.sanditon.info

Sanditon was Jane Austen's last, partially completed, novel of around 24,000 words, written between January 27th 1817 and March 18th 1817. Jane's niece Anna, the daughter of Jane's eldest brother James, had been brought up in her youngest years at Steventon with the 18 year older Jane, remained at Steventon with her father until she married Ben Lefroy at 21, and after a brief interlude moved back to Hampshire to live two miles away from Jane then living at Chawton.

Anna was surely the first 'Janeite' and harboured a life-long ambition to emulate and honour her aunt. In March 1845 she inherited Jane's manuscript in the will of Jane's sister Cassandra and set about writing her Completion, of similar length, and similarly unfinished.

In 2013 Chris Brindle, fascinated by the story behind the miniature of Anna Lefroy painted by his great great great grandfather acquired the original Lefroy Sanditon manuscripts from the USA and set about writing a stageplay based on the two fragments, with an ending that appeared a logical extension of the plot development in the Lefroy Continuation.

Friday Video - The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising

Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel "The Watsons" and what we can learn about her from these.

The video can be found here.

Friday Video - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

In case, you haven't seen it here is the first official trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Fun Friday: The Wit of John Stewart

This clip is a bit old, but the way John Stewart can weave a Jane Austen reference into a talk about the Middle East military issues is quite good and can always be shared.

The clip should start at the lead into the reference if not you can jump to about 8:20 to see the reference.

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Friday Video - Kuser Farm Mansion

For those who won't be able to join us as the Kuser Farm Mansion tomorrow of our Box Hill Picnic.




Here is some more information about the house, grounds and the Kuser family:

About Kuser Mansion

2015 Kuser Mansion Tours, Movies and Presentations

Kuser Mansion Photo Gallery

Fun Friday - Downton Funk

The new video from College Humor:

Nothing's funkier than Post-Edwardian British class struggles.

Fun Friday - Lizzie Bennet Diaries Blooper Reel

Just thought I'd share this blooper reel in case you didn't see it earlier this week.

Friday Fun - Dave Hughes reads Pride and Predjuice on Crowded Train

Fun Friday: Pugs and Famous People

I had no idea what to post today, then I was on my Pinterest page and thought, ooo I'll share pins of famous people with pugs.  Here's my Pug Board and feel free to follow me or any of my other boards on Pinterest.

First up - The Duke of Windsor and his pug Dizzy

Next we have some American royalty in the form of the Kennedy's

and Jackie's sister

Even movie stars like pugs! Here's Gerald Butler and his pug

Fashion designers too! Here's a video lip of Valentino's Pugs!

Friday Video - The Founding of New Jersey

Happy Birthday NJ!

PS I fixed Wednesday's post you can fill in the form to vote now.

Friday Video: The Birth of the Film Industry in Fort Lee

For me, one of the most fascinating things about NJ is how the Film Industry was started here before movie makers moved across the country into bigger and better locations and advancements.





Currently I'm reading Palisades Park by Alan Brennert and one of the sub storylines involves the movie industry moving out of New Jersey.


Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey—especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world’s biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers.

But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own—and Toni is determined to take on a very different kind of danger in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn back to each other—and to Palisades Park—until the park closes forever in 1971.

Evocative and moving, with the trademark brilliance at transforming historical events into irresistible fiction that made Alan Brennert’s Moloka'i and Honolulu into reading group favorites, Palisades Park takes us back to a time when life seemed simpler—except, of course, it wasn't.

Friday Video: It Happened Here: New Jersey - Preview

Part of the celebration of New Jersey's 350th Anniversary are these short videos that tell some great stories about the people, places, and events of New Jersey.  I've shared the video preview of the mini-movies and you can go here to watch the ones that Kean University currently has released.  Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing my favorites on Fridays.

 

The Jane Austen Centre interviews Mr. Wickham

Adrian Lukis played Mr. Wickham in the BBC 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice.

The Jane Austen Centre shared the video along with this article about Adrian Lukis.

I hope you all enjoy this Memorial Day weekend and remember those who have made the greatest sacrifice for our country.

Friday Video - Colin Firth on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Colin Firth was on Jimmy Fallon the other night and Jimmy brought up the giant Mr. Darcy statues that were sitting in lakes all over England. The statues were to commemorate something like the most memorable moment on British television history and Mr. Darcy emerging from the lake was voted the most memorable. In this clip Colin explains the problem with all of this...


Here's the clip from the movie in cause you too have incorrectly remembered the scene.

Friday Video: Oh Mr. Darcy! Jane Austen Super Fans - ABC News

In case you were like me and missed this when it aired last week or you saw it and want to watch again, here's Nightline's report on Jane Austen Superfans.

More World News from ABC

If you want to read more about Jane Austen Superfans, you should pick up

Friday Video! S!#ff Jane Austen Says

From the YouTube Description: 

The first offering from Distilled Spirits! Imagine the great Jane Austen and her family in dramatized slices from domestic life.

Enjoy!

Friday Video!

I'm really phoning it in today...please forgive me.

If you get the JASNA - New York Metro Region email I'm sorry, but I just had to share their email from November 6!

By popular demand: where to see Wishbone

During last month's JASNA Goes to the Movies we presented a series of Pride and Prejudice proposal scenes from television and film. The undisputed favorite four-legged Darcy was a Jack Russell terrier named Soccer who was the star of Wishbone, a children's television series that was filmed from 1995 to 1998. The show takes place in the contemporary US with story lines that are reminiscent of events in classic stories. Wishbone always imagines himself as the star of the stories and these are performed in costume. He plays Mr. Darcy in "Furst Impressions," the episode that dramatizes Pride and Prejudice.   Here are the links to the youtube videos: The Pride and Prejudice segment begins at just past 3 minutes in. Darcy puts in an appearance at 5:28.  The proposal scene is in Part 2 (Darcy wears a finely tied cravat.): advance to 7:30.   Annoyingly enough, the proposal continues on to: Enjoy!

Sincerely,  Linda Dennery and Meg Levin JASNA - NY Metro Region

Friday Video - I don't like to read Jane Austen

I know, I know, not what you expected.  I was trying to find something fun and came across this short video and couldn't help but 'lol' when I saw it.

Friday Video - Top 10 Notes: Pride and Prejudice

This 19th century story of English society’€™s landed gentry remains one of the twenty-first century’€™s most loved books. Welcome to WatchMojo.com and in this installment of Mojo Notes, we’€™ll be exploring ten things you should know about Jane Austen’€™s ‘€œPride and Prejudice.’€

Friday Video - Great Museums : The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Costume Institute

This isn't something that is Austen related but I know that several CNJ-JASNA members were interested in the Costume Institute at the Met. This video (although a bit older now) gives a brief behind-the-scenes glimpse at conservation efforts there. I thought some people might be interested in viewing it
 -Jen F.