Comments on: Happy Birthday, Jane!

By: A Lady

A Lady — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:58:59 +0000

Alas! I spent most of Austen’s Birthday travelling by plane and being “out of it” as a result of taking Dramamine. I suppose I will have to have a JA-day celebration sometime this week to make up for it!

By: Sophie

Sophie — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:15:35 +0000

I forgot about her day on Saturday as well…
But I had been preparing for it all last week by watching P2, P&P2, S&S and Emma2. It was quite nice!
Perhaps this week I’ll watch MP1 and NA1 (*groan*) to make it a round 6!

By: Julie T

Julie T — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:31:08 +0000

I celebrated THE DAY in the happiest way possible — I attended the annual Jane Austen birthday luncheon given by JASNA-Wisconsin. I shopped at the book bazaar (found some delightful gifts), enjoyed quiche and English trifle, joined my fellow revelers in a champagne toast “To Jane!” and learned a great deal from Vicky Hinshaw’s talk, “Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Divorce in the Regency Era” (focus was what could have happened to Maria, post-MP).

Fab!

By: Julie P.

Julie P. — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:16:07 +0000

I was unable to celebrate Jane’s birthday as I ought, but I just might pop P2 or P&P3 into the player later this evening. I need something beautiful in my life right now.

By: Franka

Franka — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:08:12 +0000

I totally forgot about it!!! *BLUSH* I thought about it Friday, and I did visit AustenBlog yesterday (like always!), but because I’m from Europe I read the birthday post (which was probably posted when I already turned off my computer) only today… But there’s no day that I’m not talking, writing or reading about JA, so yesterday was no exception.

Thanks for posting those lovely comments by Caroline, Mags!

And last, but not least, I’m finally going to say: HAPPY JANE AUSTEN’S BIRTHDAY!!!

By: Tony A

Tony A — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:53:10 +0000

December 16 also happens to be the birthday of another artistic giant, Ludwig van Beethoven. So all day, with Beethoven playing in the background I finished reading Nokes’ Jane Austen, A Life and then reread The Watsons. I’m falling more in more in love with Emma Watson. I think she is Anne Elliot’s equal for strength of character. I really believe that this would have been one of Jane’s greatest novels if she had not given up on it at the time… when her father died. There were just too many autobiographical elements in it, including the impending death of Emma’s own father. It must have been simply too difficult to continue the work afterwards.

With my eyes now too tired to read further, I think I will put on one of my Austen audiobooks. Probably Persuasion. Yes! Persuasion it is.

Requesting Mag’s indulgence, I would like to provide a link, for those interested, to my tribute to Jane Austen (part 1) at the Scotch and Sirens message board.

http://www.scotch-and-sirens.waw.pl/cgi-bin/forum.pl/read/574

I hope to post the second part sometime tomorrow (Sunday).

By: Dae

Dae — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:21:46 +0000

I got a group of people together, and we sang Happy Birthday to Jane in quite a few languages: Arabic, English, Hebrew, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Korean, and Papiamentu.

By: LauraGrace

LauraGrace — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:30:38 +0000

I forgot all about it…!

I watched a bit of P2, dressed my Yahoo avatar up as 1815 Girl in Bath (all right, the outfit was labeled “Juliet” – a little more Italian Rennaisance than Regency; and the background was a Spanish deck. But it’s convincing).

I very much enjoyed reading that excerpt, thanks for posting it.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:34:33 +0000

Lamenting yet again that my mother couldn’t have made a bit of an effort so that I might have been born on this date instead of the seventeenth. A brisk walk. Spicy foods. Something!

By: Marybeth

Marybeth — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:16:40 +0000

I’m just finishing watching P1 for the very first time. I’m absolutely delighted by it. I guess I had an unfair opinion of the 70s and 80s BBC productions from what little I had seen of them before, but P1 is a pure treat.

Happy Jane Austen’s Birthday!