The Complete Jane Austen Advertising
Alert Janeite Laurie wrote to tell us,
Last night while visiting my friendly neighborhood Barnes & Noble (got to love them) my mom said in a careless manner “Oh, did you see this?” and she thrust a copy of Good Housekeeping’s Quick & Simple magazine towards me. It wasn’t anything in side, no article on after New Year’s weight loss or recipe for veggie bean dip, that caught my notice and made me buy the magazine. No, it was simple the huge advertisement for The Jane Austen Season on PBS that graced the whole of the back cover! There they were in bight vibrant colors, Anne and Captain Wentworth close up, with cameos across the bottom of various main characters from the six adaptations.
Laurie could not fit the magazine on her scanner, so she took photographs of the advertisement instead.
Complete Jane Austen - Advertisement Photo 1 - Advertisement Photo 2
December 31st, 2007 at 3:51 am
“Very smart — very strong — very Austen”
Love it.
I wonder where else PBS advertised. See you at the newsstands!
December 31st, 2007 at 4:07 am
P.S.: Much as I loved Sally and Rupert in Persuasion 2007, this production completely botched the letter scene. Oh, wait, what letter scene?
January 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I agree with Maria’s comment about the letter scene. My heart broke when I realized what was…or wasn’t about to happen. It would have been the perfect production IF they had not changed that.
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:46 am
While I was at B&N a cople of days ago, I couldn’t resist looking for Qucik and Simply so I could check out the back cover. Lovely photos.