Comments on: Any Regrets?

By: Karenlee

Karenlee — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:37:43 +0000

*checks in hopefully*

I guess no one has found anywhere on line where we can watch this yet…

By: Karenlee

Karenlee — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:32:18 +0000

The latest Sense & Sensibility was up within – it seemed – days of the broadcast on some Asian site. Don’t have the link to it anymore though.

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:57:36 +0000

Cinthia/Karenlee – where do people normally post online? Cinthia mentions the ‘usual sites’ is there a way to located those sits, per say, google on certain words.

By: Cinthia

Cinthia — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:55:17 +0000

I am wondering the same think, Karenlee. The links are not necesary if they may cause troubles to Mags, but just a pointer would be enough. So far, I still searching in the usual sites where the adaptations were available when they first aired in UK, but nothing. I am astonished that people over there were more quick to upload them, than now people in US have been. Is it that nobody recorded in any digital format?

By: Karenlee

Karenlee — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:41:57 +0000

Soes anyone know if Miss Austen Regrets is available online anywhere, as the new S&S very quickly was?

By: Girl Detective

Girl Detective — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:35:23 +0000

I’m noticing a trend that the adaptations Janeites like are not liked by critics, who don’t get all the details that were right, while the adaptations that take the most liberties annoy those of us who know better, but end up delighting those who don’t. In Entertainment Weekly this week, Becoming Jane gets a B+ while The Jane Austen Book Club, based on Karen Joy Fowler’s well-detailed book, only gets a C+. This was the reverse appraisal of Richard Roeper when the films came out, and he seemed rather more well informed on Jane than I would have thought. Miss Austen Regrets seems to have been better received by lovers of Jane than by critics in general, perhaps because it was so attentive to details like the order of the novels, if not her hats.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:26:59 +0000

Just an FYI to throw into the mix. If Jane did have Addison’s Disease of the Adrenal glands, there would likely be a very gradual onset of symptoms before an acute exacerbation, possibly due to stress, called an Addisonian Crisis or Acute Adrenal Insufficiency. Not sure if the symptoms would go on for 15 years before an exacerbation of symptoms.

By: Kathleen B.

Kathleen B. — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:59:21 +0000

I figured the joke was Haden and Hayden.

Do you mean Haydn?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:14:08 +0000

I figured the joke was Haden and Hayden.

By: Cinthia

Cinthia — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:41 +0000

Elaina and Mags, thank you both very much about “Haden”, I was afraid that I might be missing a joke.

I think that might be where the idea that she had a crush on Mr. Haden came from. I am of the opinion that she was being silly because she liked him for Fanny’s sake (though perhaps she liked him herself, a little bit).

I do agree with you Mags, on both accounts. That’s where they got the idea but streched it too much.

There is another quote from her letters where I think they got the idea that she was jealous of Fanny because of Haden (Letter no. 128) because she almost desires her niece should be gone so Henry could recover faster.

Still, it seems I would accept more willingly the speculations of this film than those so off the mark ones from Becoming Jane.

Karenlee, I agree with you about the no aversion to wine. What others may have found unappropiate, I am looking forward to watch it (as soon as it becomes available, either the DVD or the strayed signal ) and judge if it is what I had imagined from her.

As you say, the original quote of the shaking hand was many years before when it seems to appear on the film, however, as you say, there are many references in her correspondence about drinking and there is one of the later years when she commnents something like one of the advantages of being now the chaperone is that then she was allowed to drink as much as she wanted (these are not precisely her words, I’m just paraphrasing the idea).