English author Jane Austen may have died over 190 years ago, but interests in her novels and life has never been stronger. Today there are new novels and nonfiction books being written by talented and creative authors to suplant the...
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English author Jane Austen may have died over 190 years ago, but interests in her novels and life has never been stronger. Today there are new novels and nonfiction books being written by talented and creative authors to suplant the 'need to feed' our obession with Jane Austen and her Regency life. Featured here are articles on Austen prequels, sequels, spinoffs and other Austen-esqu faire. It all started in 1914 when Sybil G. Brinton wrote Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen. Now there are hundreds to choose from! Enjoy.
Congratulations to our Jane Austen Week Winners, chosen at random from all the comments we received this week.JANE AUSTEN wins a copy of A Charming Place: Bath in the Life and Novels of Jane Austen by Maggie LaneLOIS wins signed copy of Carrie Bebris's Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mystery Pride and PrescienceEmail us at riskies@yahoo.com with your snail mail addresses!Thanks to everyone who stopped by to share our celebration of the incomparable Jane...
Northanger Abbey and Angels and DragonsSFWA NewsIn the wake of her MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES, author and publisher Vera Nazarian will write NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS, another hilarious Jane ...
I ran across this bit whilst reading Northanger Abbey with my budding Janeite:"Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance, or fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers. And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who...
Jane Austen has become the most revered and probably the most popular of the great English novelists. Not even the vulgarisation of her novels by those who have adapted them for television has impaired the esteem in which she is held. She is not only deemed amusing, which she is, but a wonderfully fair and judicious moralist. Walter Scott praised her ‘exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from...
Laurel Ann at Austenprose wonders who the book is really targeting - certainly not those who lack a sense of macabre humor and who revere Jane's novels, and certainly not the zombie lover who is looking for more gruesome action. ...
Marilyn Brant recently blogged about a party she’d attended celebrating Jane Austen 234th birthday. She said:
One of the big highlights of the event was getting to hear “The Bingley Sisters” (aka, Molly Philosophos and Liz Philosophos Cooper …) advise their brother Charles (that would be the famed, Mr. Bingley of Pride & Prejudice) [...]
By the Numbers477,595: Book results on Google6,640,000: Google Results124,850: Words in Pride And Prejudice2,370,000: Google images101,000: Jane Austen Fanfic results228,000: Google results for Jane Austen Love festDo you know your Jane? And Other Fun LinksJane Austen QuizzesA Guide to Jane Austen FanFic ETA: Link replaced with a better one!Jane goes supernaturalJane Austen Quote of the Day from Lori SmithAbout Jane, with a brief annotated...
Jane Austen did not invent Colin Firth.Shocking, but true.I've been trying to work out for years the real relationship between Austen and romance novels of the early twenty-first century. She was not, sigh, "the first writer of Regency romances." She wrote contemporary novels.She wrote about marriage for love in a society where everything had its price, but the majority of established married couples in her books are mismatched. Her characters...
All this week Risky Regencies celebrate Jane Austen's birthday. Monday through Saturday each of our blogs will relate in some way to Jane Austen, one of the greatest novelists of all time, a novelist who wrote with such acute authenticity about her own time that she gave subsequent generations such love of it that we still love to read Regency novels today.In celebration (and appreciation) of Jane Austen we will be giving away prizes to two of...
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies is the title of something Natalie Portman’s got herself into.
Every now and then, you have to prove you have a sense of humor. Portman will produce and star as Austen heroine Elizabeth Bennett. This way she gets to do a zombie picture and plan an Austen heroine looking for [...]
The late Miss Jane Austen
Because her books were originally published anonymously, Jane Austen was never famous in her lifetime, but she has enjoyed tremendous success ever since. Well, at least her novels have. Her work has been in print continuously since 1833. Countless film, television, and stage adaptations of her stories abound -- beginning with 1940's "Pride and Prejudice" (starring Laurence Olivier as the proud Mr. Darcy and Greer...
It's been the year's strangest trend – horror 'mash-ups' of classic novels. Stephanie Merritt enters a blood-spattered worldIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a brand as successful and limited as the Jane Austen industry must be in want of diversification. (It is a further truth that anyone writing about Austen must begin with a variant of that sentence.) Even the relentless adaptations machine, which seems to produce remakes of her...
Usually when you mention brains and Natalie Portman it refers to her having a big one, not zombies demanding “Brains! Brains! Brains!” But that’s exactly what we’ll see now that the Oscar-nominated actress has signed on to produce and star in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a film adaption of the zombie bestseller based on the classic Jane Austen novel.
Yes, Jane Austen. Yes, undead legions. Yes, Natalie Portman. This just went from...
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