The Scotsman profiles Hermione Lee, author of the upcoming Body Parts: Essays on Life-writing. This book is a collection of essays about biographies and their relation to history and fiction.

The essays’ subjects include Shelley, Yeats, Einstein, and many others, including Austen:

She also discusses the many versions of Jane Austen’s faint on being told the family was to leave Steventon for Bath - “one of the most dramatic moments in her life, and one of the places where all Austen’s biographers have to decide what to do with the handed-down family versions”.

Prof. Lee is a well-known author of many works, including biographies of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather.

The stage version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE starring John Leslie as Wickham and Rula Lenska as Mrs. Bennet is still touring the U.K. in the new year. (See an AustenBlog reader’s review here.) The show will be at the Gateway Theatre in Chester in February. icNorthWales has an article about it.

The Washington Times reports on two outstanding freshmen who play for Georgetown’s basketball team. One of them, 6′8″ Jeff Green, is a friend of Jane.

But just because he admires [Allen] Iverson’s game and wears cornrows, don’t think Green is destined for rebel star status. His favorite book is “Pride and Prejudice.” And you won’t see a tattoo on him, now or ever.

“No, I can’t do that to my body,” says Green. “I guess I’m kind of old-fashioned. I like the old ways, you know, old values.”

This Cub Reporter cringes at the thought of this young man in today’s NBA.

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