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5 August 2007

Jane Austen Book Club film contest - win a tour of Jane Austen’s England

Filed under: Places, Swag, The Jane Austen Book Club — Mags @ 3:24 am

Sony Classics is having a sweepstakes in relation to their upcoming film The Jane Austen Book Club, with a really fantastic grand prize:

The British travel agency Pathfinders will provide the 2008 tour to England designed especially for members of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Inc.(JASNA) JASNA-sponsored tours offer access to homes and events not available to the general public, such as the annual meeting of the British Jane Austen Society held on the grounds of the manor house owned by Jane Austens brother. Private teas, luncheons, and dinners in historic settings are also part of the tour. A British guide specializing in Austen and her era will accompany the group. The itinerary will center on Jane Austens homes and places she visited, including Steventon, Bath, Chawton, Winchester, and London.

WOW! The first and second prizes are kind of fun, too; we want a poster! (Yes, we know we said we weren’t thrilled with it, but we want it anyway.)

Becoming Jane News Roundup: Shooting Fish in a Barrel Edition

Filed under: Becoming Jane — Mags @ 2:46 am

Everyone knows we’re all about the snark here at AustenBlog, but we think there is, in some parts, an impression that we do it just for the sake of being mean. Nothing could be further from the truth. The main objective of this blog is to share news of interest to Jane Austen fans with other Jane Austen fans. But hey, we are Jane Austen fans, and that means we kind of like snark. We like humor. We like irony. And sometimes they just make it too darned easy.

Alert Janeite Carmen sent us a link to an interview with Anne Hathaway, who pretty much shows why actors playing a historical personage should never be viewed as experts on that person. (more…)

Jane Austen: J.K. Rowling’s Secret Ingredient

Filed under: F.O.J. (Friends of Jane) — Mags @ 2:46 am

Alert Janeite Natalie sent us a scan of a blurb from an article in Entertainment Weekly about J.K. Rowling’s “Secret Ingredients”–her influences while writing the Harry Potter novels. Our Gentle Readers can probably guess one of the influences.

Oh, Mr. Willoughby!

Filed under: Online, Screen — Mags @ 1:13 am

We blogged about this back when it was first broadcast, but now we can show it to all thanks to YouTube. Alert Janeite Diana I-C sent us the link.

 

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