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23 April 2006

New novel inspired by Jane Austen

Filed under: Jane in the News, Online — Mags @ 11:34 pm

Kate Allan (who comments here at AustenBlog occasionally) has written a book with a fictional story inspired by Jane Austen. The heroine of Perfidy and Perfection is a woman who writes and hides it from her family, as did Jane Austen (not her immediate family, but nieces and nephews were not let in on the secret until several years after her first publication).

The novel site has a competition to win a copy of one of Kate’s books and she also hosted an online launch party, which because the Editrix spent the weekend lying about crocheting a reticule we neglected to post in time, but one can still read the archives, and we dare say post a comment if so inclined. :-)

P&P3 in Top 50 Film Adaptations List

Filed under: Jane in the News, Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mags @ 11:16 pm

The Guardian has listed PRIDE AND PREJUDICE in its list of the 50 best film adaptations of all time. We are astonished to note that no other Austen adaptation made the list. It is unclear what criteria was used for the listing; from the article, it seems as though the quality of the original was weighed as much as the film, which is kind of strange in our opinion.

Thanks to Alert Janeite Robyn for sending us the link.

Private to “The Oxford Student”

Filed under: Jane in the News — Mags @ 10:57 pm

Dear Precocious Young Persons,

Leave Jane Austen out of your puerile parodies, please. We have a Cluebat of Janeite Righteousness and know how to use it. Just ask your compatriots at DePaul.

Cordially (for now),
The Editrix

 

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