Apparently meta Mondays are now extending to Fridays as well. Oh dear, as Fraser would say.

( in which I fixate on Fraser's body, mostly. No, not like THAT. Through 'Some Like It Red.' )

I just had a thought that is so blindingly obvious that I can't believe it's taken me this long to have it ( Read more... )

At least one of them has done the "when you think about the Victorians, you might think of the genteel country-house world of Jane Austen, but Charles Dickens presents gritty realism in his sketches of city life" opening*, and several of them do immediately equate--like some [columnists/bloggers/people named Joe Wright] who constantly disparage ( Read more... )

I recently (like, five minutes ago) saw the video for Taylor Swift's "Love Story," and it really begs the question: are there any other R&J/P&P mashups out there? Because that's basically what the video was: a weirdly Regency/Renaissance/fairy tale ball, with random shots of castle-like sets. (Also, the male lead running around in the grass in the ( Read more... )

It's a Christmas miracle!

Yesterday my mother and I, at long last, finished watching Pride and Prejudice! We started the day before and made it all the way through the first disc, which I wasn't at all expecting, and then, the next day, my mother reminded *me* that we had to finish watching it! The verdict was that it was "very enjoyable" and that ( Read more... )

From Austenblog (of course), Anne Stott on Mr. Bennet ( Read more... )

I don't quite know how I failed to realize that Miss Evangelista is played by the actress who played Mary Bennet in P&P3 (after all, I was dragged to that movie three times!), but I did, so there we are ( Read more... )

Did anyone watch the first part of the new Andrew Davies S&S last night? Did anyone else feel like they'd basically just replaced Margaret's atlas with a library, and the fencing scene with horseback riding? And that they'd hired someone whose hair was almost as floppy as Hugh Grant's?

( I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house than a watch-tower )

A college friend of mine is teaching an Austen class at her university, and against her wishes, she had her students watch the recent film of Pride and Prejudice, the one with Keira Knightley (P&P3). (Apparently some of the students had decided to take the class because they'd really liked the movie, so she made it a part of the syllabus.) This ( Read more... )

It is probably far too early to have this much bottled-up rage toward the makers of Becoming Jane, seeing as the film hasn't even come out yet. But everything I read about this film makes me angrier. Today's perusal of AustenBlog brought a long article on the film to my attention, and I just... hate. Everyone quoted in the article except James ( Read more... )