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Pride and Prejudice for Kids
“You are the last man in the world I would marry,” says Elizabeth Bennet to Mr. Darcy in the Real Reads abridged version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, adapted by Gill Tavner for children or other readers unlikely to … Continue reading
Posted in Jane Austen for Kids, L.M. Montgomery
Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Carol Shields, Elizabeth Bennet, film adaptations, Gill Tavner, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Society, JASNA, Jennifer Adams, literature, Little Miss Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice, Real Reads Pride and Prejudice
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Adapting Sense and Sensibility
David Monaghan will talk about “The Adaptor as Author in Andrew Davies’s Sense and Sensibility” at our next JASNA Nova Scotia meeting on Sunday, May 6th at 2pm. Dr. Monaghan is Professor Emeritus at Mount Saint Vincent University here in … Continue reading
“Austen herself at the keyboard”?
“My suspicion is that had P.D. James been an unknown author peddling her manuscript for the first time to publishers and agents, Death Comes to Pemberley would have been tossed on the slush pile and she would have received a … Continue reading
“A perpetual piecing together of broken bits”
One of my favourite novels by Edith Wharton is The Reef, which she wrote while she was working on the much longer novel The Custom of the Country. The Reef was published in 1912, and it’s been called the most … Continue reading
How to make your own Regency ball gown
At our JASNA Nova Scotia meeting this month, Lou Harrington will talk about how to make a Regency ball gown (or how to persuade someone to make one for you). You can read about Lou’s experience of the 2011 Jane … Continue reading
“Virtue is its Humphry Ward”
In the years after the Great War, Edith Wharton wondered about her future reputation. In my last post, I wrote about her feeling that her work was “either nothing or more than they know.” She wondered if she would begin … Continue reading
Happy Birthday to Edith Wharton!
Today is Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday, and I’m thinking about ways to celebrate, in addition to rereading her work. There’s a short birthday video on the website of The Mount, the house Wharton designed and built in the Berkshires; there are … Continue reading
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” in Sense and Sensibility
JASNA Nova Scotia will meet in February to talk about papers on Sense and Sensibility from the 2011 Annual General Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas. We’re meeting on Sunday, February 12 at 2pm at Christina’s house; please email me (semsley … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Morley, JASNA AGM 2011, JASNA Nova Scotia, Persuasions On-Line, Sense and Sensibility
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Feeding the sick in Austen’s time (and our own)
Find out what invalids were advised to eat in Jane Austen’s time: Dr. Catherine Morley, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at Acadia University and a JASNA member, will speak on “The Invalid’s Dietary in the Austen Era: Its Presence … Continue reading
Advent Calendars and Books
The Advent Book Blog is counting the days to Christmas, with new book recommendations posted every day–what a great idea to help with gift-giving! The blog, a “viral holiday book recommendation engine” that supports independent booksellers, was created by Sean Cranbury and … Continue reading
