Tuesday Open Thread: Nobody Beats Jane Edition
Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Open Thread, where we share links that didn’t quite make the cut for a full blog post but we think will be of interest to our readers.
Alert Janeite Maria L. noticed an interesting item in the racing scores…
Punters found the going as tough as the horses and jockeys at a blustery Fairyhouse yesterday as a series of surprise results culminated in a hard-fought success for Jane Austen in the Finale Stakes.
On just the third outing of her career, the daughter of Galileo responded to a particularly strong drive from Johnny Murtagh to foil the Harley family’s veteran Muskatsturm and Suailce in the Presidential colours.
Daughter of Galileo? Better than Godmother of Chick Lit, we suppose. So what’s new in your patch of Janeiteville? As always, feel free to pimp your projects/links in this open thread.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Led by Galileo to Dante and thence to his appearance along with the Dashwood sisters in a Fantastic Four miniseries, I take this chance to say I have utterly misled anyone who read my previous posts on this - it isn’t called Real Story at all, it’s called True Story.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Totally not Jane-related but….Congrats on the Phillies!
October 30th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Haven’t commented here in ages (moving to Britain seems to take up a lot of my free time!), but if you’re wildly curious/bored, I blather on about my annual Austen Read (S&S) and Tomalin’s biography over on my blog [/shameless self-promotion]
October 30th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Andy m’dear! You made it to Old Blighty, then?
And Tuesday Open Thread is just made for shameless self-promotion, so go to it.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I am shamelessly pimping the conclusion of Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey which finsihes up tomorrow Oct 31st. You still have a chance to win 17 prizes, including editions of Northanger Abbey, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Jane Austen in Bath, music CD’s and the final prize, a unabridged volume of Jane Austen: Seven Novels. So head on over and leave a comment, because - if an adventure does not befall you in your own village …
http://austenprose.wordpress.com/category/go-gothic-with-northanger-abbey/
Cheers, Laurel Ann
October 31st, 2008 at 9:00 am
I did make it! Just barely, by the seat of my pants, as usual, but I made it! Could only manage to take one Austen novel with me though.
November 1st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Oh how funny! Jonny Murtagh is second to Jane Austen!.Even more funny is the race was in Ireland where my cousins maiden name is Murtagh!
James