The film adaptation Miss Austen
It's in 3 parts, the script by Andrea Gib, the director is Aisling
Walsh whose series are often excellent.
It's done in the old-fashioned way: genuine scenes, no ratcheting up,
acted subtly and yes
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Ellen Moody
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#5446
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I'm building up a set of Austen post-texts I like or can read.
8ar outstanding; books in their own right. 4 borderline. 2 screenplays
so good they are readable in their own right. Some screenplays made
good movies nut are blueprints. And I've tried -- genuinely
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Ellen Moody
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FW: First Born-Digital Issue of The Johnsonian News Letter
It's a friendly newsletter-journal.
Ellen
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Ellen Moody
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Re: Narration implicitly from Elizabeth¡¯s POV in P&P
Anxiety and fretfulness are a form of excitement. Mrs Bennet has a dull life except for the excitement she creates for herself.
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Tamar Lindsay
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#5443
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Narration implicitly from Elizabeth¡¯s POV in P&P
I just came across a passage of narration in P&P Chapter 53, which I find to be a perfect example of narration which might at first, while reading or rereading quickly, seem like an objective
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Arnie Perlstein
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#5442
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Alison Hennigan on Pride and Prejudice
I've just finished participating in a splendid zoom seminar (2 hours)
from Cambridge UP. Dr Alison Hennigan is usually superb and she
managed to elicit very interesting talk on P&P from the aspect
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Ellen Moody
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#5441
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Re: The one of the six completed Austen novels that has no hunting?
There is no mention of coverts, but in chapter 39 of _Emma_, Harriet and Miss Bickerton are terrified by aggressive gypsies in a part of the Richmond Road that is "deeply shaded by elms on each side".
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Tamar Lindsay
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Re: The one of the six completed Austen novels that has no hunting?
Not a sign of the times but a suggestion of where they lived. Though the
Knightly estate was rather large, it was pretty much within the village and
didn't have much uncultivated land, woods or
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Nancy Mayer
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The one of the six completed Austen novels that has no hunting?
Dorothy,
Thank you for your well-considered response!
It's a very interesting social history question as to whether gentlemanly
enthusiasm for hunting was beginning to wane by the time JA wrote
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Arnie Perlstein
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#5438
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Re: The one of the six completed Austen novels that has no hunting?
I believe you¡¯re right, Arnie. There is also, in Emma, no mention of grounds, coverts, etc., in which the landowner might hunt or shoot game. We¡¯re given descriptions of other aspects of the
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Dorothy Gannon
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Re: The one of the six completed Austen novels that has no hunting?
The two heroes, Mr knightlry and Mr Martin are wholly decent men. From his handwriting, Churchill is presented as effeminate: Mr Elton is also not manly; Mrs E is a bully. Ellen
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Ellen Moody
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The one of the six completed Austen novels that has no hunting?
ME, EARLIER: "Tell me if I'm wrong, but it occurred to me this morning
that *Emma* is the one of the six completed novels which has no character
who hunts nonhuman animals. Have I missed
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Arnie Perlstein
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#5435
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Re: The one of the six completed Austen novels that has no hunting?
Do all six novels have hunting scenes? Or shooting birds?
s&S we are told of this; MP,Persuasion they go shooting. Henry Tilley has hunting guns in his room but in the novel does he hunt or shoot?.
By
Ellen Moody
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The one of the six completed Austen novels that has no hunting?
Tell me if I'm wrong, but it occurred to me this morning that Emma is the
one of the six completed novels which has no character who hunts nonhuman
animals. Have I missed something?
ARNIE
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Arnie Perlstein
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The case of Elizabeth Canning. 1750s, London.
The mystery solved. She was autistic. A blog laying out a story, how I
came to know about, what I still hope to write. The solution to this
"mystery." She was
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Ellen Moody
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A little more on White Bird, the movie
I just finished a movie ¡°of the week¡± class at the Oscher Institute of
Lifelong Learning at George Mason attached to George Mason, where we
discussed this movie. It was brought home to me not only
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Ellen Moody
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"Why children's books" by Katherine Rundell from the LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n02/katherine-rundell/why-children-s-books
I find the above essay wonderfully cheering.
If you cannot reach it, and want to, let me know, and I'll copy and
paste
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Ellen Moody
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I redid blogs, adding pictures
White bird, A wonder story for our times. Painfully relevant
https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/white-bird-a-wonder-story/
I retire at long last, after 53 years, or my working life comes
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Ellen Moody
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Hornby: Austen created the 6 best novels in the English language
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/25/gill-hornby-miss-austen-novel-tv-adaptation-jane-austen-created-the-six-best-novels-in-the-english-language
Posted by Ellen
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Ellen Moody
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#5428
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For NYC & Beyond Trollope: review of Toibin book interesting context for James's Portrait of a Lady
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/02/13/bonds-and-gestures-long-island-colm-toibin/
If you cannot reach it (behind a paywall) let me know. I can copy and put
it on the list posting space.
Harvey
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Ellen Moody
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#5427
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