Category: film adaptations
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Another P & P Play
Hello everyone! As I mentioned last month, I went to Nashville to visit my daughter and see yet another stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I arrived on February 14th and my husband had arranged for flowers and ice cream cake to be waiting for me. It was a wonderful extended weekend. We went to…
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Another P&P Play
I apologize for this brief post, but life has turned a bit crazy recently and my blog completely slipped my mind until the alarm went off on my phone shortly after I received a text from my daughter. Since they happened so close together and both had to do with Jane Austen, I figured it…
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Add a Little Light to the Situation
Good morrow, dear readers. Are you having a lovely July? I am trying – and mildly succeeding – to get back to writing this month. As I mentioned last time, it was reading Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women in the light of our kerosene lamps which first opened my eyes to the parallels betwixt my…
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Ranking the Most Emotionally Clueless Austen Men
(A lighthearted list — Mr. Collins is obvious, but not alone) They say the wrong thing. They entirely miss the point. Sometimes they launch into a long, confident speech, while everyone else wonders if there’s a polite way to make it stop. Many of these moments belong to the Austen men who are not villains.…
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What Might We Learn of Jane Austen’s Life and Writing from the Fabrications in the Film “Becoming Jane”?
Before I begin my analysis of this film, I hold fond memories of it. I was still teaching (had only begun to play with the idea of retirement, which was still was some three years away). On August 7, 2007, I took my Advanced Placement Language class out to celebrate their scores. Yes, I was…
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“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” – The Employment of Film Devices Used to Tell a Story in Austen Adaptations
This month, Pride and Prejudice 2005 returns to American movie theatres. In honor of its 20th anniversary, Pride & Prejudice has returned to theaters nationwide in a special theatrical event, which began on April 20. Tickets for the rerelease screenings are now available to purchase on the Focus Features website. I have already been to see…
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It’s a Steal!!! However – in other news – the BBC has aced MISS AUSTEN (the TV series)!!!!
#MissAusten #JaneAusten #PrideAndPerjury #JAFF #HistoricalFiction Everyone here will know, by now, about Meta’s immoral and illegal “scraping” of well over SEVEN MILLION books, in order to train generative language AI – without compensating a single author, out of the seven million of us concerned (of whom I’m one.) However, it still came as a shock…