Edge Boston is having a giveaway for a PRIDE AND PREJUDICE DVD Package that includes a copy of the DVD and an “I’m With Darcy” t-shirt. It doesn’t look like you have to live in Boston in order to enter, but you do have to live in the US (or at least have a mailing address there). The giveaway ends April 6, which is next week.
Alert Janeites Julia and Lynne wrote to tell us that in addition to broadcasting MANSFIELD PARK (which we posted about previously), BBC7 is also doing broadcasts of EMMA (from Thursday the 30th to Saturday the 1st at 10 am, 9 pm and 2 am) and PERSUASION (from Monday the 3rd to Thursday the 6th at the same times). From the looks of it, Juliet Stevenson (from E2 - thanks Julie P!) will be featured in PERSUASION.
It looks like BBC7 is a Friend of Jane, even if V.S. Naipaul isn’t!
Mags, brace yourself. We have Dorothy on standby with a huge pot of Orange Pekoe.
In an article on the Beeb, V.S. Naipaul rants about authors from Ernest Hemingway to Jane Austen:
The author slates Dickens for his “repetitiveness” and cites the experience of reading Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey as a revelatory one.
“I thought halfway through the book, ‘Here am I, a grown man reading about this terrible vapid woman and her so-called love life.’
“I said to myself, ‘What am I doing with this material? This is for somebody else, really.”
Look at it this way, Mags: at least he didn’t say anything about Da Man!
(Thanks to Alert Janeite Sophia J for sending this in!)
Alert Janeite Hiba posted this link in comments for another post with photos from the first couple of days of shooting for BECOMING JANE. The costumes pass the initial sniff test. Let the games begin! 
Edit 8:40 p.m. EST: Also thanks to Alert Janeites Vanya_Elda and Cinthia for sending in the news–we were not home and didn’t check e-mail last night or it would have been posted then! Thanks to all who send us news–we could not do without you.
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