The Wellesley Summer Theatre Company (associated with Wellesley College in Massachusetts) will be staging a production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE throughout June. Tickets can be reserved online.
The Kechi Playhouse in Wichita, Kansas, will be staging THE LAST OF JANE AUSTEN from September 1 through 25. We have no idea what the play is about; the linked article describes it only as a comedy. The Kechi Playhouse Web site is not up to date, but there is a phone number to call for more information.
A study into reading habits by gender concluded that men generally don’t read books by women–with one understandable exception:
‘Pressed for a preference, many men also found it much more difficult to “like” or “admire” a novel authored by a woman - for them “great” writing was male writing (oh - apart from Jane Austen, of course),’ the report said.
From a fashion article in the Financial Times:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in search of a catchy intro will inevitably end up plagiarising Jane Austen. But it’s also a truth, and one that’s pretty well accepted, that when it comes to the spring, our thoughts will inevitably turn to flowers and blossoms - with or without the aid of a literary classic.
Ha!
Liza Featherstone writes about Emma in Newsday.
This won’t surprise you if you’ve recently been anywhere near a playground: For two years running, Emma has been the second most popular name for a baby girl born in the United States (just after Emily). For devotees of Jane Austen’s eponymous novel, this might seem curious; when Austen began writing “Emma,” she declared, “I am going to take a heroine who nobody but myself will very much like.”
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