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Each session will cover Jane Austen’s life ... ‘Northanger Abbey’, ‘Mansfield Park’, ‘Emma’ and ‘Persuasion’ - is still immense.” Talks are free to attend, and booking is ...
Keeley Hawes shines as Cassandra Austen in 'Miss Austen,' a PBS Masterpiece limited series adaptation of Gill Hornby's novel ...
The Gist: Cassandra lives alone on a big country estate; her maid hands her a letter from Isabella Fowle (Rose Leslie), ...
Learn what Miss Austen author Gill Hornby thinks of the TV adaptation airing on MASTERPIECE starring Keeley Hawes.
Below, please find my step-by-step guide (with attendant thoughts) to making the white soup that’s referenced in the part of Pride and Prejudice where Bingley says the Netherfield Ball can be ...
If you are a fellow Janeite and bought your tickets weeks ahead of the 20th anniversary theatrical rerelease of director Joe Wright’s “Pride & Prejudice” (2005), then it is highly probable we shared ...
Chickens owned by the Countess of Carnarvon, which are named after Jane Austen characters ... Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion. The flock - including Jane, Lizzie, Kitty, Mary, Lydia and ...
Known today as Jane Austen's House, it can be visited by the public and holds a collection of objects associated with the author, including jewellery, furniture and first editions of her books.
Writing great sister acts (think the Bennett siblings of Pride and Prejudice, the Dashwoods of Sense and Sensibility) came naturally to Jane Austen. Or so we gather from Miss Austen, a poignant ...