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18 February 2006

Who is YOUR Jane Austen?

Filed under: Online — Mags @ 4:13 pm

Karen Joy Fowler’s Web page has a fun quiz related to her book, The Jane Austen Book Club.

When the Editrix took the test, her results were:

Like Bernadette, your Austen is a comic genius whose characters and dialogue are genuinely funny. You may be thought unreasonably attached to Pride and Prejudice. You will not be afraid to wear purple in old age.

All true, except our favorite would be Persuasion. (And for those who are new to the blog, we adored JABC, even to the point of hoping that Mr. Adrien Brody, Our Sweet Babboo, would be cast in the role of Grigg if they ever make a film of it. We are not sure there is a higher accolade we can bestow.)

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“Jane Austen’s Romantic Myth” at Goucher College

Filed under: Austen Societies and Events — Mags @ 3:28 pm

The Julia Rogers Library at Goucher College in Maryland will sponsor a lecture by Rachel Brownstein, Goucher College’s Burke Scholar-in-Residence for spring 2004, on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 7 p.m. in Merrick Lecture Hall.

Titled “Dearest, Loveliest Elizabeth: Jane Austen’s Romantic Myth,” Brownstein’s presentation will explore readers’ ideas about the famous 18th-century novelist and her works. The lecture is free and open to the public.

As always, if you go, we would love to hear all about it.

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Modern stage update of Sense and Sensibility touring U.K.

Filed under: Stage — Mags @ 3:24 pm

Little D-fects Physical Theatre company is staging a play called CRUSH, a modern take on Sense and Sensibility, which is about to go on tour in the U.K.

Based on Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ Crush follows two sisters as they join the craziness of 1980’s London. Marianne wants to be in a band, Elinor is starting university. Together they find out that being young and in love is never easy - but what’s the best way to cope with a broken heart?

little d-fects bring their “fresh, easily accessible style” (Hairline 2004)to this classic tale, combining theatre, dance and music to make this an exhilarating and extraordinary version of a well-loved story.

The tour begins February 23 (that’s this week!) in Fareham and runs through March. Send us a review if you get to see it!

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Lessing on Austen

Filed under: Nonfiction — Mags @ 3:16 pm

The New York Times reports that Doris Lessing’s new collection of essays contains an essay on Jane Austen, though the review says nothing specific about it.

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