Now this is what we call good customer service
Alert Janeite Kerry, having read our dismay over the cover blurb of the soon-to-be-published Bloomsbury edition of Pride and Prejudice, took it upon herself to write to the publisher and register a protest, to which they responded:
Thank you very much for pointing out the error in our blurb for the new edition of Pride and Prejudice that we are publishing in August this year. We really appreciate your attention to this and for alerting us to our mistake. We will make all necessary changes to the blurb.
Kerry wrote to us, “Truly I didn’t expect to get any response at all, so I am greatly surprised and quite impressed.” So are we! (And an AustenBlog Twenty-One-Gun Broadside Salute from the Laconia to Kerry for going above and beyond the call of Janeite duty!)
June 6th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Aw, thank you so much! I’ve never received a Twenty-One-Gun Broadside Salute before!
June 6th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Well done Kerry!
Your action and its result also go to show just how possible it is to make an impact on the misinformation (not to mention the misconceptions) out there!
June 6th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
This is mostly OT but slightly relevant to the theme of requesting correction. I was surprised when Paul Gordon did not comment when I passed along your criticism concerning the impropriety of the presence of a waltz scene in Emma. But, I see here, in my copy of the novel, that indeed there was an ‘irresistable waltz’ played at the Cole family party- chapter 26, played by Mrs Weston, in fact.
June 6th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
My understanding is that they did country dances to waltz music.
Even Lord Byron thought that the waltz was obscene, and he impregnated his sister.
June 6th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
I’d take it up with the choreographer, then
I dunno who that is.
June 7th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
I think Byron was an only child. Ah, but he did have that odd summer and rumors afterwards with his half sister, Augusta I think?
June 7th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
As I told you before, Kerry, Miss Austen would be so proud!
My super hero name for you would be: The Austen Avenger!
~Meghan