Six on a Saturday
1. Today, I'm off to the library to meet my prize-winning friend Angela for some writing time. Before then, I'll see if I can nail down some of the questions I have about Lyme Regis and Jane's visits to the Dorset and Devonshire coast of England (including Lyme and Charmouth and Teignmouth and Dawlish (the last one used as a character name in the Harry Potter books; Dawlish was an Auror)). If not, then I'll simply write about something else. Bath, perhaps.
2. Boy, would I love to go to Bath. Seriously. Also, I need to take a bath. Or a shower. Probably more information than you needed to know.
3. Tomorrow night is the third and final installment of Pride and Prejudice on PBS, beginning at 9 p.m. on most PBS stations. It will begin with charming scenes between Lizzy and Darcy, including luminous "looks" across a semi-crowded room, and then detour drastically into the elopement of Lydia and Wickham, ending much as you see there to the left. As Lydia and Kitty would say, "Mmmmmmmmm." Although I have a confession to make: I will likely be flipping back and forth between it and the Oscars (it's not like I don't already own a copy of the BBC Pride and Prejudice or that I haven't practically memorized the script, after all).
4. Speaking of Austen on PBS, I've seen the new version of Sense and Sensibility already (on YouTube, but it may disappear at any time), and it is awesome. It will be on at the end of March and beginning of April, after Emma, which shows on March 23rd. Why the gap? It's time for a fund drive.
5. Speaking of PBS fund drives, folks who get WHYY can look for me on Sunday, March 2nd, during begging breaks between 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. The Eastern PA Region of JASNA will be staffing the phone banks at that time, during which a production called "Celebrating the Complete Jane Austen" will be shown (9-10 p.m.), with behind-the-scenes footage from the new productions, including the speculative bio-pic, "Miss Austen Regrets."
6. In other Austen-related news (gosh, there's a lot of it), I've started "researching" fabrics from which to make my Regency-era gown for the Annual General Meeting of JASNA. I realized a week or so ago that I really need to be looking at what the Mrs. Westons and Mrs. Eltons and Mrs. Palmers and Mrs. John Dashwoods and Lady Russells are wearing, and less at what the young heroines are wearing to determine appropriate colors and fabrics. The designs were actually a bit similar back then, so I'm not so much concerned about the style as the color and fabric selection at this point. Anyone out there have knowledge of Regency fabrics (and sources for where to get decent facsimiles these days)? (I'm looking at you, elizabethcbunce, but it's possible someone else out there knows where to gets silks, satins and muslins as well.)
2. Boy, would I love to go to Bath. Seriously. Also, I need to take a bath. Or a shower. Probably more information than you needed to know.
3. Tomorrow night is the third and final installment of Pride and Prejudice on PBS, beginning at 9 p.m. on most PBS stations. It will begin with charming scenes between Lizzy and Darcy, including luminous "looks" across a semi-crowded room, and then detour drastically into the elopement of Lydia and Wickham, ending much as you see there to the left. As Lydia and Kitty would say, "Mmmmmmmmm." Although I have a confession to make: I will likely be flipping back and forth between it and the Oscars (it's not like I don't already own a copy of the BBC Pride and Prejudice or that I haven't practically memorized the script, after all).
4. Speaking of Austen on PBS, I've seen the new version of Sense and Sensibility already (on YouTube, but it may disappear at any time), and it is awesome. It will be on at the end of March and beginning of April, after Emma, which shows on March 23rd. Why the gap? It's time for a fund drive.
5. Speaking of PBS fund drives, folks who get WHYY can look for me on Sunday, March 2nd, during begging breaks between 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. The Eastern PA Region of JASNA will be staffing the phone banks at that time, during which a production called "Celebrating the Complete Jane Austen" will be shown (9-10 p.m.), with behind-the-scenes footage from the new productions, including the speculative bio-pic, "Miss Austen Regrets."
6. In other Austen-related news (gosh, there's a lot of it), I've started "researching" fabrics from which to make my Regency-era gown for the Annual General Meeting of JASNA. I realized a week or so ago that I really need to be looking at what the Mrs. Westons and Mrs. Eltons and Mrs. Palmers and Mrs. John Dashwoods and Lady Russells are wearing, and less at what the young heroines are wearing to determine appropriate colors and fabrics. The designs were actually a bit similar back then, so I'm not so much concerned about the style as the color and fabric selection at this point. Anyone out there have knowledge of Regency fabrics (and sources for where to get decent facsimiles these days)? (I'm looking at you, elizabethcbunce, but it's possible someone else out there knows where to gets silks, satins and muslins as well.)