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Austen Variations: Todd Living with Austen; Miss Austen book into film, a draft Comments on blog in blog's section for comments very welcome; will be taken into account in final

Let me concede other problems with the film, more than the book, Dorothy. Earlier today I suggested the film-makers are aware to present Austen as depressive and you add non-glamorous

Glad to know others are watching. Agree totally with Arnie and Ellen that the cast of “Miss Austen” is pretty great. Among them the casting and portrayal I find especially excellent – Patsy

Elaborating jut a little, The script writer and director are two women whose names I repeatedly observe on the best TV dramas. One aspect of both book & film is Cassandra Is presented with having

Have I said I bought a book about Bella da Costa for Izzy on her 1st birthday, May 8 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1636811353?psc=1... A review which tells her life

It was superb. The book is too. Ellen

I've just watched Episode 1, and I give it an A, it was surprisingly excellent. How close it is to actual history, I am not so sure, but Gill Hornby has done such a brilliant job, and the acting in

Soon I'll be rereading John Wood Sweet's Sewing Girl's Tale and may reread Judith Moore's The Appearance of Truth for the upcoming 4 week course I'm teaching at OLLI at AU Not far behind Winifred

Yes it is.It shows the family were a literary bunch. Letters & documents also survive when there is a huge house, with an attic that no one is using. James Austen regarded himself as a poet &

It is surprising that so many letters survived. Jane's brothers were not settled in one place. Even Henry moved around. Letters have a better chance of survival when both parties stayed in one

Austen wrote to other people. We are told there were 3 packets between her & Frank, the older sailor brother. The granddaughter, we are told, without asking permission, early one morning destroyed the

It was the accepted practice that when a person died, the relatives retrieved their letters to the deceased, if they had been kept. Letters were seldom solely for the person to whom addressed,

Ellen, I well remember the Fanny wars. At the time I'd have said I wasn’t especially fond of the novel, but it was due to your defense of MP that I went back and reread it for the first time. Up

To Nancy, I remember. I was a defender of Fanny. Imust love the six novels as I never tire of them. The best Austen faithful style film for me is the 1995 Persuasion with Amanda Root and Ciaran

I like her letters for being a view into life of the day. They tell us, also, that she was a real person. A person with links and dislikes and a sometimes sharp tongue( or pen). I think Fanny Price

I'm reading this between sequels -- I might reread The Other Bennet Sister. I'm finding it very fresh, stimulating, but not sure how to blog/write about it. It seems to me Todd is doing something

I used Easter calendar changes for Austen calendars, Woman in White & Clarissa. Austen erases years since her novels were revised. Necessary for epistolary & journal

I've been watching the superb 7 part 1978 serial written by Dennis Potter, featuring Alan Bate & Anna Massey. I read the book some years ago, and I think, like the recent Far from the Madding

Maria Frawley will conduct one on Elizabeth Gaskell (5 sessions) this summer at Politics and Prose: North and South, Cranford Ellen

I'm neck-deep in a revived interest in Juana I of Castile, and am stockpiling a slew of primary documentation related to her. It's amazing to me how accessible some of this material has become. I