I enjoyed this interview between a Jane Austen lover and Vera Nazarian, who wrote the Mansfield Park and Mummies mashup, which has quietly been gaining legs.

Vera talks about why Mansfield Park isn't popular with modern readers, and the process of writing a mashup.

( Read more... )

Via movingfinger this bit of awesomeness in response to someone sticking a quill into Austen without having read a word of her work.

I was looking over people's Boskone panel topics, and there was one that had my mouth watering. Oh to get to sit in the audience of this one!

Almost two centuries after her death, Jane Austen is more popular than ever. We see film after film of her novels, read books about her life, and encounter a surprising number of works featuring her ( Read more... )

A friend tells me the recent BBC Northanger was pretty good. Did anyone tape it? I totally spaced--and the others who'd watched Persuasion and taped it for me the week before had said that one was so terrible they didn't think to check out this week's offering ( Read more... )

Over at Wrong Questions Abigail Nussbaum delves into the Problem of Fanny, after having watched another apparently misfiring attempt to capture Mansfield Park on screen.
( Read more... )

If you have ten minutes, check out wrong_questions's essay on Shavuot, The Book of Ruth, Jane Austen, and the different types of conformity.

I'd been prepared for how mangled the story would be, so I was braced. Actually, there was only one floor-dropping-out-of-my-stomach horrible moment, the rest were either understandable, bearable, or a mild wince when the screenwriter saw fit to muck about with Austen's comedic, precise, brilliant text, shoving in bland modern blather that I guess ( Read more... )

Major spoilers for Persuasion below.
( Read more... )

Today's mental exploration: Lucy Snowe and Lucy Steele.
( Read more... )