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13 February 2006

Podcasting Lizzy and Darcy

Filed under: Links, Online — Mags @ 1:06 am

We blogged a while ago about some Jane Austen-related projects at LibriVox; now Alert Janeite Nicole sent us a link to a complete audio version of Pride and Prejudice available for download, read by podcaster Annie Coleman, who deserves some kind of Janeite award of distinction!

Searching for Mr. Frank Churchill

Filed under: Jane in the News — Mags @ 12:57 am

The heathens do tend to take Jane’s name in vain when Valentine’s Day approaches…an article about Internet dating contained the following:

For social anthropologist Kate Fox, the growing use of the Internet is almost a return to the days of Jane Austen and good old-fashioned courtships carried out by correspondence.

Of course, all good Janeites know that the only couples who could correspond were those already engaged.

 

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