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Getting Local With Jane: Every Time Zone Edition
We have received some more details about the Jane Austen Festival that will take place in Canberra, Australia, from 16-20 April, 2008. There are not just social gatherings planned, but a reticule...
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Friday Bookblogging: All Jane Edition
Greetings, Gentle Readers! It’s time for another review of news items and posts about Jane Austen’s work to start off your weekend. Scotland’s National Library is opening an exhibition featuring items...
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"Do not be so dull, my dearest creature," she whispered.
Normblog has republished a lecture given to the Jane Austen Society in 2006 by Richard Jenkyns, author of A Fine Brush on Ivory and a descendant of Jane Austen’s brother James. Professor Jenkyns’s...
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"I had entered on my studies at Oxford…"
You can say that along with Henry Tilney if you take one of Oxford University’s online courses–especially their course on Jane Austen, which is being offered again beginning very soon. As before, a bit...
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Pride and Prejudice in Context at Millsaps College
Milsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, is offering a non-credit adult enrichment class, “Pride and Prejudice in Context,” beginning January 26. See the link for a phone number to call for details....
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Getting Local With Jane: Higher Education Edition
Welcome to Getting Local With Jane, our weekly or so roundup of local events of interest to Jane Austen enthusiasts. If your local region doesn’t appear in this post, keep checking back, for one week...
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Proof that there really CAN be too many adaptations of Jane Austen's novels
An article in today’s Times reports that the movie rights to P&P and Zombies are expected to be sold this week. Hollywood studios are bidding to turn a radical reworking of Austen’s most popular...
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Awkward
Ouch. This is an ugly one. Well-known Jane Austen scholar Kathryn Sutherland has accused biographer Claire Harman, author of the upcoming Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Laurel Ann...
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Burke Austen Scholar-in-Residence Juliette Wells Lecture Available as Podcast
Juliette Wells, the Goucher College 2009-2010 Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence, gave a public lecture in February that is now available as a podcast. The talk, titled “For the Love of Jane...
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Quotable
“The process by which academic critics deprecate Austenian admirers outside the academy is very similar to the way…trekkies, fans, and mass media enthusiasts are derided and marginalized by dominant...
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