... The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. But what about their sister Mary? At the ... turn my nose at it and tease him about it. After all, everyone knows that Sandra does NOT read or watch anything twice except for Jane Austen, I don't think there can ever be enough of Mr Darcy can there? So now that I've let ...

... are interesting enough and we get it: she has a wide appeal and reach. But this film had exactly nothing to do with Jane Austen's life, and everything to do with these 20th century thinkers ... the event. The paradox for me is this: doesn't it, ultimately, make us know Austen better in some ways to not know - as she didn't - the ultimate cause? In this, as in so many things, 21st century ...

... BBC News, New York   A major Jane Austen exhibition, which has opened in New York, is creating ... organisers of the exhibition have also commissioned a documentary film about Austen's continuing influence, which features interviews ...

... loves in the end," Halperin said. In fact, Austen's papers show she considered another ending ... disease, he said, though he points out that his biography, "The Life of Jane Austen," was first published in 1984, and that there has been significant ... 39;s argument plausible. Like White, he speculates that Austen could have suffered for years from some disease that affected her adrenal ...

... Welty, writes a loving appreciation of the marvel of just how Austen constructed the complex ironies of her works: “ ... 8216;everybody’ reads.” He wants you to know that of “Jane Austen’s six great novels, Emma ... make the reader read the book herself, think critically about it herself? While Austen is hardly in need of a revival, A Truth Universally Acknowledged does a lovely ...

... was unpasteurized), is still the best guess. Personally, I am glad that Ms. Austen left no DNA behind. We will really never know what killed her. Even the image of her posted here (a ... ;d prefer to have a mental image of her just like this. Most of us I am sure, don't really need to know what really killed Jane Austen, or even Galileo. The work they left behind has given them immortality. ...

... Pumpkin Crunch Pecan Pie While I'm here, chatting about Austen, I have to recommend the 2008 Masterpiece Sense and Sensibility. Just watched it (again) this week - 'tis The Jane Austen Season!   Excepting the ... ; Oh!  And in case you are wondering...and I know you are...Masterpiece will be releasing another Austen in 2010.  Enjoy this trailer of Emma.  ( ...

... 'd hoped, the Morgan focuses on a handful of objects from Austen's life, and the commentary is thoughtful. I was surprised, though, ... email or twitttering. The speed of mail at the time and the content of the Austen sisters' letters suggest that the desires to ... have created a slew of brand new communication behaviors. The Jane Austen show at the Morgan suggests just the opposite: our ...

... howling-ly fun way. Get ready for Emma and the Werewolves by Jane Austen and Adam Rann. Mashups seem to be everywhere these days. ... Cook. Now on December 8 comes Emma and the Werewolves by Jane Austen and Adam Rann, to be published by Coscom ... lurks in the shadows and if it’ll be coming for them next. For more on Emma and the Werewolves by Jane Austin and Adam Rann, please visit The book ...

... through and test my knowledge of my favourite novels, but, I am not a true Jane Austen devotee - I know very little of her life and family, I never went to see 'Becoming Jane ... her lesser known works, or any of the biographies. This seems to me a really good little book for an Austen fan, surely there is someone out there who would appreciate this fun, but also seriously challenging, book more ...

... the Addison’s Disease Self-Help Group, analyzed Austen’s letters in the two years before she died and concluded that ... , affecting the joints and liver, “would have been more common in Jane Austen’s time and would offer a simpler explanation ... symptoms.” Some medical historians have suggested that Austen could have acquired disseminated tuberculosis infection from cows or ...

... London during Jane Austen's lifetime, mail didn't move at such a snail's pace. ... one and sharing the minutia of their lives. From reading Austen's novels, I'd always assumed that people ... time waiting for the mail. But the show mentions that during Austen's life, mail in London and environs ... mail sound a lot more like email or twitttering. Tags: email   Jane Austen

My BB column this week revisits the Jane Austen exhibit at the Morgan which I enjoyed so much last week (and yes, the William Blake exhibit is ... her beloved sister Cassandra, and other personal effects. While it seems impossible that we don't know everything there is to know about Jane (which isn't as much as most fans would like), it's a revelation to see so much written in her own ...

... have seen every Colin Firth movie. I am a huge fan of Jane Austen. New York is too far to travel to see this exhibition. But I will continue to investigate everything about it. "A major Jane Austen exhibition, which has opened in New York, is creating a huge stir among fans ... the only surviving and complete handwritten manuscript of one of Austen's novels, Lady Susan."

... has been back in the new this morning - because a scholar has claimed it may have killed Jane Austen. The writer's death in 1817 was thought to have been a result of Addison's disease ... in Addison's, Katherine White, has claimed that the symptoms Austen described are more likely to have been attributable to bovine tuberculosis, then common and often contracted from ...