An idea we can get behind
The New Zealand Herald declares that the BBC needs “more Pride and Prejudice and less Regency House Party.” We concur!
11 January 2005
The vultures circle
There’s a post on the P&P3 forum at the IMDb stating that the domain name prideandprejudice.com is for sale. We sincerely doubt that Working Title will pony up the big bucks. We are quite certain that the poster is asking big bucks.
In the Editrix’s somewhat educated opinion, domain squatters are the bottom-feeders of internet commerce, somewhere above spammers and those guys who send you e-mails from Nigeria with the deal of a lifetime, but their intentions aren’t much more honorable.
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Jane Austen: Patron Saint of Domestic Fiction
Slate has an article today on novelist Fay Weldon, comparing her domestic dramas to Jane Austen’s novels:
She is actually writing in a great tradition: the British domestic comedy. Bitter, truth-speaking, and very funny portraits of domestic life have emerged from the pens of Englishwomen for over a century. Jane Austen hovers in the background, an acerbic ghost occasionally flaring into wickedness: Mr. Collins’ windbaggery, Emma’s myopia.
The article doesn’t mention it, but Ms. Weldon adapted the late 70s BBC miniseries of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, known to the online fandom as P&P1.
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