Tuesday Open Thread: No, She Doesn't Edition
Time for another Tuesday Open Thread, where we share interesting links and talk about everything to do with Jane Austen.
MyVerbocity posts a funny story from college, in which a friend is irritated by constant reminders of the genius of Jane Austen. Silly boy!
Etsy artisan Pattie Tierney has a cute little pin that you can buy to show your love for Jane Austen. (Via InkyGirl)
If you’ve ever wondered just what the heck those minor characters in Georgette Heyer novels were going on about with their incomprehensible thieves’ cant, here’s a dictionary of thieves’ cant from 1736 and a dictionary of the vulgar tongue from 1811. There are some other interesting books from Jane Austen’s time period as well (Click “Online Reference Books”). (Via BoingBoing)
ETA: A late addition of something we stumbled across…“Pemberly” bedding! *snicker*
What’s new in your patch of Janeiteland?
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Hi I am a American student studying in the Bath, England for the semester and working as an intern at the Jane Austen Centre. I have just started but I have a blog and thought some fellow Janeites might be interested! It has been AMAZING so far!!
Cheers!
Virginia Claire
http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Virginia-Claire/
Does the fact that the Pemberly bedding is on clearance mean anything?
What’s worse is I’ve seen that bedding and tried to talk myself into buying it just because of the name.
My random Austen sighting: My husband called me into the bedroom where he was watching TV. He was watching an old CSI, and they were questioning prostitutes in a brothel about their whereabouts during a murder that happened there. He backed up a little (I luv our DVR) so I could listen to the various women who had “come upon the town.”
One answer: “I was in my room, reading Pride and Prejudice. I have the biggest crush on Mr. Darcy.”
So I’m thinking a CSI writer either really loves Darcy, or really hates Cranky McJerkPants. Mags, you’re not moonlighting as a screenplay writer, are you?
If I were writing it, I’d go for the real Austen-geek lawls and have her reading MP, and a crush on Edmund. Because I am that evil.
Well, top this one, folks!
A comic reading friend has kindly drawn my attention to the appearance of Elinor, Marianne and Margaret Dashwood in a four-issue limited series from Marvel Comics featuring the Fantastic Four, called Real Story. He has even more kindly offered to obtain copies for me – so far we are up to #2 and the Dashwood girls, Dante (yes, the Italian poet, there in the capacity of a character in his own Divine Comedy) and the FF have dropped into the world of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. They are in pursuit of strange creatures which are invading the world of fiction and making things turn out wrong. I’ll say for the writers that they have had the grace to acknowledge Jasper FForde instead of just steal his ideas like certain TV series staring tonight at 9pm Britsh Summer Time. And the end of #1 features what has to be the ultimate misuse of the opening sentence of P&P as the Thing declaims “It is a truth universally acknowledged that it’s clobbering time!”
Incidentally, Mags, if she were a real person you would need to add the Invisible Woman to the friends of Jane.
Here’s a link to a great article about feminism and freedom.
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.28410/pub_detail.asp
About a third of the way into the article, there’s a great point about the “world-transforming period at the end of the eighteenth century in England when,…’the middleclass woman began to write.’”
Austen is considered one of the three most important writers of this period – the other two being Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More.
And the end of #1 features what has to be the ultimate misuse of the opening sentence of P&P as the Thing declaims “It is a truth universally acknowledged that it’s clobbering time!”
I MUST HAVE THIS. WHERE DO I GET IT.
At any SF/comics shop or online retailer, I should think – I believe my friend got the two issues I have so far at the Edinburgh branch of Forbidden Planet, and since it is only half-way through the story it must be current and easily available.
Ran across this book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446198153/dorothparkersnew recently. And if you type in “Sex and Sensibility” into your favorite search engine, it’s amazing how many hits you get.
I want a lot of Pemberly bedding and I want it now!