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Jane Austen News

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20 hrs ago | AustenBlog . . . she's everywhere

Jasna Agm Report, Day 2

Sorry about the lack of reportage. I really should have known that it would be difficult to do.

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Sat Oct 04, 2008

The Victoria Star

Picks from an aspiring writer

F8 Laurie Glenn Norris has a deliciously involuntary reaction when she reads Jane Eyre.

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Fri Oct 03, 2008

The Austrailian

The perils of Colleen

AT 71, Colleen McCullough is battling poor health. But, writes Rosalie Higson, that hasn't stopped the author writing a sequel to Jane AustenA s most loved novel.

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Thu Oct 02, 2008

Edmonton Sun

Citadel kicks off with Pride

The Citadel kicked off its 2008/2009 season with a smashing production of Pride and Prejudice.

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Bronte Blog

East Riddlesden Hall in Wuthering Heights

The Keighley News has an article on the shooting of two of Mammoth Screen's recent productions - Lost in Austen and the forthcoming Wuthering Heights - at the same place: East Riddlesden Hall .

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Wed Oct 01, 2008

The Courier-Journal

Jory's 'Pride and Prejudice' should please

Jane Austen fans and anyone who appreciates a romantic comedy wrapped in social satire soon will be served a Regency Era treat.

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Playbill

Osnes, Blum, Stanek and More Join Cast of Oct. 21 Pride & Prejudice Concert

Complete casting has been announced for the concert version of the new Broadway-aimed musical Pride & Prejudice - based on the classic Jane Austen novel - that will be presented Oct.

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Tue Sep 30, 2008

Newindpress

Capturing the essence

ADDICTS, not merely of Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece, but also of the 1981 Granada Television version of Brideshead Revisited can only look forward to the new screen version with diluted enthusiasm.

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Sun Sep 28, 2008

Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog

Chawton Battles City of Bath Over Jane Austen Bragging Rights

Organisers of Bath's Jane Austen Festival say the city is now "internationally recognised" as the writer's home because it features so heavily in her books.

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Sat Sep 27, 2008

Edmonton Journal

Romantic comedy sparkles in delightful adaptation

Mr. Darcy, who gets the last word in Tom Woods's sparkling new adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at the Citadel, wasn't talking about successful stage rejiggings of famous novels when he says,"I ...

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Thu Sep 25, 2008

Scientific Blogging

Going to the hospital - a cure for disease, or the source of it?

A scientist by training, journalist by employment. I enjoy all things science, especially science-related humor.

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Tue Sep 23, 2008

Vaughan Citizen

Book club needs no Persuasion to talk about Jane Austen

What do the movies Clueless and Bridget Jones' Diary have in common with the Newmarket Public Library? For Jennifer Leveridge, the community services librarian, the answer is author Jane Austen.

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Mon Sep 22, 2008

Edmonton Journal

Adapted without prejudice

"Itis a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." That famous opening line of Pride and Prejudice, delicately ironic, sets in motion a brisk ...

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Sat Sep 20, 2008

This Is Exeter

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THE Dorset Corset Theatre Company visits Exmouth on Tuesday, September 23, with a new adaptation of Jane Austen's gripping gothic satire Northanger Abbey.

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Thu Sep 18, 2008

Western Daily Press

Crazy for Jane film premiere at Austen festival in Bath

It was the literary story of 2007 - first told by the Western Daily Press - of how the 21st century world of publishing failed to spot some of Jane Austen's most famous works, and then rejected them.

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Wed Sep 17, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk

Television critic's choice - Lost in Austen

Lost in Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in need of a plot must steal from Jane Austen.

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Tue Sep 16, 2008

AustenBlog . . . she's everywhere

Donna Lynne Champlin cast as Jane Austen in Broadway-Bound Pride and Prejudice Musical

Broadway actress and Rochester native Donna Lynne Champlin has been cast as Jane Austen in the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice .

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Mon Sep 15, 2008

BBC

Absent bells at 'Austen' church

A Devon church immortalised in a film adaptation Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is without its bells after they were condemned as "too dangerous". St Mary's Church, Berry Pomeroy, was used as the setting ...

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BellaOnline

Lost in Austen Review

It is a truth universally acknowledged... that every review of a Jane Austen adaptation must begin with these six words.

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Sun Sep 14, 2008

Grand Rapids Press

'Sense and Sensibility' plays well in a time of 'Gossip Girl'

Master Arts Theatre actors perform "Sense and Sensibility" through Sept. 27. The hot new television show "Gossip Girl" has nothing on Jane Austen.

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