The Scotsman.com reports that the Heritage Lottery Fund has acquired the John Murray Archive, including manuscripts and letters from authors including Jane Austen. A second article reports that a new exhibition area will be created in the National Library of Scotland to house the collection. Time to plan that trip to Edinburgh! 
An article about Julie Walters on MuggleNet reports that Ms. Walters said in an interview that she will begin work on BECOMING JANE in April. Still no news on her role.
Hmmm! After we reported a contest to win a P&P3 DVD sponsored by a newspaper in West Virginia, it was won by someone living in South Dakota. Emily Feekes, could you be an AustenBlog reader? Come, confess! 
Emily wrote a very nice essay on the film, btw; check it out!
The University of Wisconsin’s theatre group is staging an adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE beginning tonight and running through March 11. Tickets are $16, $12 for UW students.
“It’s a lovely adaptation. The undergraduates in the play love it and the story stands up very well in the theater,” says director Barbara Clayton, who teaches theater at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The novel is written in such an energetic style that much of the dialogue is just lifted right out of the novel.”
As always, if you get to see it, post a review in comments!
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