Dorothy: send a footman to Bedlam to make sure they have our reservation
The Australian Jane Austen Season continues this week with Northanger Abbey 07. And look! It’s lush with straining bosoms!
Eighteenth-century Bath reveals itself to be a city of simmering depravity and barely concealed lust in this rollicking adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1798 novel. Young men in taut breeches smirk and stare suggestively at the story’s innocent heroine, Catherine Morland, as she and her coquettish new friend, Isabella Thorpe, walk the streets and attend lively balls.
The spork is calling us, Gentle Readers.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:32 am
They are really doing all they can, with Andrew Davies help, to turn JA into a Harlequin novel. Geez!
June 13th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Yeah, somehow Catherine Morland never struck me as a streetwalker.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:49 am
And let’s not forget the lurid, carnal driven Monk that no Jane Austen story would be complete without
June 13th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Taut breeches? Damn, missed that scene.