Bath Tourism features Jane Austen
With the new films coming out, Bath Tourism is featuring “Jane Austen’s Bath” on its Web site, with links to Austen-related places to see and things to do in Bath.
We recommend Bath as a destination for any Janeite–it’s a really spectacular place on its own, and to find actual locations for scenes in Jane Austen’s novels is a thrill.
Among other features, the Web site has some photos we haven’t seen from Persuasion 2007, including one of the Elliot sisters and one with their doating papa. Also, the site has the news that the Jane Austen Centre will have a display of costumes from P07 starting at the end of March.
March 8th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
As I feared, that Elizabeth Elliot appears much too old.
Enjoyed the link, though.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Mags,
Any possibility the JA Centre will send you a link with photos of the ‘new’ display? I’d love to see it but I’ve no chance of going to the UK this year…Might they take pity on us poor Janeites who can’t get there, please??
March 8th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
I haven’t been to Bath since 1999. I really need to go back.
March 8th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
The blue and white dress Mary Musgrove is wearing was not designed by Andrea Galer. It was rented. It was worn by Polly Walker as Jane Fairfax to Emma’s wedding. The one with Gwyneth Paltrow which had costumes designed Ruth Myers.
http://www.donwellabbey.lunarpages.com/moviegowns/Emma2/Jane/jawedlong.jpg
March 9th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Yes, I also think Elizabeth looks a bit on the old side (don’t forget though, she is pushing 30!). They did, however, choose an actress who looks very different than Anne (and Mary, for that matter). A good touch, as one of the reasons Sir Walter liked Elizabeth so much than her sisters is that – unlike the other two – she was very physically like him (and seems to be, judging by the picture of the four of them together).
March 9th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Oh, good eye with the gowns, Arwen. I’d never have caught that.
In an interview, Andrea Galer, the costumer for Persuasion 2007, stated that the production had “virtually no budget for makes which is a great pity.”
You can read the interview on BrontëBlog here
http://bronteblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/further-on-andrea-galers-work-for-jane.html
Andrea Galer has also done costumes for Jane Eyre (2006), Bleak House (2005), He Knew He Was Right, Boudica, and Mansfield Park (1999).
http://imdb.com/name/nm0301981/