Comments for AustenBlog http://austenblog.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait? by S http://austenblog.com/2012/02/14/jane-austen-the-unseen-portrait/#comment-42669 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:21:36 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7386#comment-42669 Even if it is Jane Austen, and taken from life, not from memory, it still doesn’t really prove what she looked like, because it is impossible to know if it is a good likeness, as we have never seen the original. For all we know, it was done by a terrible artist, and anyone who knew her and looked at it could have said, “But it looks nothing like her!”

Personally, I think this drawing looks like Miss Gulch in The Wizard of Oz.

]]> Comment on *sticks nose out of burrow* by Bren http://austenblog.com/2012/02/13/sticks-nose-out-of-burrow/#comment-42668 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:23:19 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7367#comment-42668 “Nothing is quite so abominable as February.” Truer words are seldom spoken. What *is* it about this time of year? ugh

]]> Comment on Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait? by Tony Grant http://austenblog.com/2012/02/14/jane-austen-the-unseen-portrait/#comment-42667 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:50:37 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7386#comment-42667 I read an interview by an art expert soon after this programme was aired. The bit about forensic face matching can’t be accepted as evidence when used on a painting. An artist painting the same nose two or three times will make variations. Paint can smudge or drip. The fact that all the brothers were painted by different artists makes even more unlikely that forensic analysis will pick up exact comparisons.It can only really be done with photographs or film and even then with the advent of photoshop??? To put it bluntly forensic evidence on paintings can only really tell you if there is another painting underneath and the chemical constituents of the paint..

]]> Comment on Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait? by Jeffrey http://austenblog.com/2012/02/14/jane-austen-the-unseen-portrait/#comment-42666 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:42:34 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7386#comment-42666 It may all be idle speculation but I can envision this “likeness” of Miss Austen a lot easier than any of the others. She looks elegant, classy, busy, intelligent. Phony or not, I LIKE it.

]]> Comment on Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait? by Linda http://austenblog.com/2012/02/14/jane-austen-the-unseen-portrait/#comment-42665 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:33:33 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7386#comment-42665 Byrne has since walked back the Chute theory — now favoring a nameless “low end professional.” In my opinion, there is a yawning chasm between “might be” and “can’t not be” and Byrne has not come anywhere near building the bridge to the latter.

Loved your use of “Phwoar” — a terrific word, and it’s certainly most appropriate in this instance!

]]> Comment on *sticks nose out of burrow* by stephaniebarron http://austenblog.com/2012/02/13/sticks-nose-out-of-burrow/#comment-42661 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:10:15 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7367#comment-42661 Personally, I’m in a mood to take up permanent residence in my particular den, so I sympathize, Mags! Nothing is quite so abominable as February.

]]> Comment on The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen by Tony Grant http://austenblog.com/2012/02/13/the-many-lovers-of-miss-jane-austen/#comment-42660 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:45:58 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7369#comment-42660 Hi Mags good to see you back posting. I saw this programme when it was aired first here. I enjoyed it and it was probably aimed at somebody like me who didn’t know the full story. I learned something anyway. All the Leavis thing etc etc I found fascinating.

Also I fell in love with our Amanda when she did that first series of hers At Home With The Georgians. She tried some of her sexy looks too but I didn’t find her so appealing this time. It was as though she was trying to put it on, which of course she was.

However, from our side of the pond the excessive commercialisation (that’s the way we see it) bit at Fort Worth and the twee home spun products stuff etc made us ever so slightly cringe. I’m sorry but it’s probably a Brit thing. I know it happens here too but on a much smaller scale and I think we try to hide it. Guilty pleasures and all that.

But as an over view of how her fame has waxed and waned and the driving forces behind it was good, for me anyway.

Hope you are well and great to see you back.

Tony

PS Only just discovered that our Amanda has cut a swathe through American universities during her bright shining career not just London Universities and Cambridge etc.

]]> Comment on *sticks nose out of burrow* by Heather L http://austenblog.com/2012/02/13/sticks-nose-out-of-burrow/#comment-42658 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:58:11 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7367#comment-42658 From one burrow to another: it’s good to see you back! :)

]]> Comment on Happy New Year! by authormariagrace http://austenblog.com/2011/12/31/happy-new-year/#comment-42650 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:22:22 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7363#comment-42650 Happy New year. Been missing your updates!

]]> Comment on Happy New Year! by Enid Wilson http://austenblog.com/2011/12/31/happy-new-year/#comment-42646 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:20:55 +0000 http://austenblog.com/?p=7363#comment-42646 Happy New Year to you too! And love the dancing picture.

The Spinster’s Vow

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