Portland Center Stage Theater is presenting a stage version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE through November 20. Tickets are available online.
If you’ve seen this production, send in your review!
ETA 10/31: A review from the Oregonian.
Month: October 2005
Attention Auckland! Free P&P3 Passes!
StandardTimes Newspapers of Auckland is offering free passes to P&P3–it requires e-mailing to answer to a very easy question by 5 p.m. on Monday. That’s soon for you guys, we think, so make haste!!!
A preview of the Editrix's travelogue
Standard…sort of! Raphael Kadushin writes about traveling through the beautiful Hampshire countryside, including Chawton, in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune:
“And this is where she wrote,” the docent said.
“She” was Jane Austen, and what I was staring at was a tiny wooden table, its round top about the size of a Frisbee, tucked discreetly beside a window, looking like something praying not to be noticed.
The table was the kind you would serve cashews and olives on, though there might not be room for the cashews, and it was hard to picture Austen composing “Pride and Prejudice” on this undersized insult of a writing desk. Seeing it was like learning that Julia Child produced all those airy French soufflés in an Easy Bake oven, though Child didn’t have to worry about hiding her work every time someone entered the kitchen.
It is a rather tiny table, and pretty beat up, but we agree with all of the author’s comments about Hampshire–it is really beautiful country. It is easy to understand why Jane Austen so loved it.
Brendan Shanahan: Friend of Jane
StandardBig bad hockey dude Brendan Shanahan of the Detroit Red Wings told the Detroit Free Press that he likes Jane Austen–at least, better than he likes Ernest Hemingway, which is something, one supposes.
“Jane Austen or Ernest Hemingway? Ah, will people think less of me if I say Jane Austen? I like “Sense and Sensibility.” . . . I guess I should say Hemingway. You know, I really kind of, I know it’s embarrassing, but I like her stuff better than his.”
Don’t be embarrassed, Brendan darling, we assure you that women are swooning everywhere. The boys will only tease you because they’re jealous.
The Editrix and Dorothy, incidentally, are very fond of watching a hockey game of an evening, so the enjoyment of hockey and Jane Austen are not necessarily mutually exclusive. (But we must add, Mr. Shanahan notwithstanding: Go Flyers!)
We're back…
Standard…and already plotting the How and When of our return to the scene of our public triumph, lovely Bath. We know Jane wasn’t fond of that city, but we liked it, especially out towards the first place that the Austens lived there, 4 Sydney Place.
A complete travelogue is forthcoming sometime this week–have some catching up to do first.
We really need to lead a round of applause for the other AustenBloggers (particularly Cub Reporter Tasha, who has done yeo(wo)man work and is being revived with a bracing pot of Dorothy’s Orange Pekoe) for handling things whilst we swanned round Old Blighty having fun. Or, in that Nelsonian spirit, perhaps three cheers:
Hip, hip, HUZZAH!
Hip, hip, HUZZAH!
Hip, hip, HUZZAH!
Incidentally, when we win the lottery, we plan to purchase 4 Sydney Place, kick out the current squatters who live there (hope they didn’t mind us taking photos of their house…but they really should close their curtains. Just saying) and turn it into the new and improved AustenBlog World Headquarters, with the comfortable chintz-upholstered chairs of the Jane Austen Memorial Library and Reading Room open to all Janeites! You just have to know the Password of the First Degree…Tilneys and trap-doors, of course.
Gettin Jiggy With It, Austen-style
StandardHere’s an accompaniment you might find diverting.
Thanks to Elaine for sending this in!
P&P Nov. 11 Release Locations!
StandardThanks to our good friend Paul over at KeiraWeb, we now have a list of cities for the November 11th release of Pride and Prejudice:
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Something other than P&P news? Impossible!
StandardFriends, Readers, Janeites:
In all the fever and frenzy that has accompanied the release of P&P2005, we’d like to remind you that not only has Our Dear Jane written five other novels, as well as a plethora of short stories and letters, but other artists besides famous actors have taken note of them! Please take some time to check out the panel to the right of your screen and look at some other Austen-related books/events that are “On The Street” or “In the Works.”
For example:
The Cambridge University Press has a fab new site listing all their publications by and about Austen.
The latest Jane Austen Mystery will most certainly be a good and intriguing read!
If reading isn’t your thing, you can always go for the BBC Austen collection, now out on DVD.
There’s so much out there, both in your local library/movie rental store, and on the internet. Amuse yourself with the exploits of Emma Woodhouse rather than Keira Knightley, and remind yourselves again why Henry Tilney will be a more lively clergyman than Edmund Bertram. We’re not asking you to forget about the new film, only to remember that there was more to Austen than “truths universally acknowledged” and “dearest, loveliest Elizabeths.”
Thank you all again for all the support and feedback you give. It’s so much fun working here, and hearing from all of you makes it even better!
"It's my party . . ."
StandardAndrea Jaeger of the Dayton, Ohio JASNA Chapter wrote to tell us of a Jane Austen birthday celebration in her neck of the woods, for those of you who can’t make the NoCal event! (Don’t worry, East Coasters, we’ll try and find something for you, too!
On December 18th, the Dayton JASNA will be holding a potluck tea in honor of our beloved Jane, complete with white soup à la Netherfield Ball!
For all you Lydia Bennets out there who simply long for a ball, the Dayton chapter aims to please with the “Springtime at Pemberley” Assembly Ball to take place on May 6, 2006. Activities for the day-long event include lectures, luncheon, period card games, a dance workshop, and the ball in the evening.
For more information on these events, or general inquiries for the Dayton JASNA chapter, please contact Andrea at regencydancingqueen AT yahoo.com (like always, replace the “AT” with “@”!)
Did someone say . . . SALE?
StandardAlert Janeite Julie F. wrote to tell us about Oxford University Press’ sale for the Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen, which includes her six major novels as well as her Juvenilia. The set also boasts 19th century illustrations (EDIT: not the C.E. Brock ones, see comments).
Julie F. also called our attention to the fact that this is a site-wide sale; we found some pretty good bargains while poking around – we suggest that our readers do the same!
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