New Jane Austen Sculpture

The Dring Jane Austen Portrait

A new sculpture of writer Jane Austen has been commissioned by a Bath tourist attraction. The full-size waxwork of the author will be based on a relatively new portrait by forensic artist Melissa Dring.

Read the rest of the article about the sculpture in This is Bath

Jane Austen Character Question

How old is Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice?

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In Willoughby's Arms - Illustrated Books

I have a few illustrated Sense and Sensibility books, but not all of them have the scene with Willoughby carrying Marianne after her fall.  Except for the C. E. Brock watercolor that I've picked up from Mollands, the rest of the illustrations are photographs of my Jane Austen collection.

Design and paint: C. E. Brock  - RittenHouse Classics
Watercolor: C. E. Brock
Painting: A. A. Dixon - Collins Clear-Type  (I have doubts about the technique, if someone can identify it, please let us know. Thank you.)
Pen and ink: Bessie Darling Inglis - Thomas Nelson & Sons
Woodcut: Joan Hassall - The Folio Society, 1958

Contributed by : Raquel Sallaberry, Jane Austen em Portugues

Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely: A Reader's Thoughts

Gentle Readers, in September reader Martha won a copy of Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely. When I sent her the book, I asked her to send me her thoughts after she finished it. Here is her reply:

Hi, Vic!
I enjoyed the book- I think your review was spot-on. It was a fun, interesting, easy read. I did put the book down when Elizabeth said she knew who had done it, and tried to solve it myself, but to no avail! I had actually decided that the ... was involved in Michael's death, having ... him on the ... or some such. I had also decided that ... most likely .... herself (just a little), to make sure she wouldn't be a suspect. You know, those that you least expect end up being the perpetrators and all. In any case, it was a good read! Thanks again!
Martha

Hah! Regarding the .... did you think I would reveal all that Martha wrote?

Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Minotaur Books (August 30, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312699417
ISBN-13: 978-0312699413

Pride and Prejudice, Art Work by Jennie Ottinger: Chances, Choices, Chases Exhibition at Eleven, London

Eleven is pleased to present Jennie Ottinger’s first UK exhibition in Chances, Choices, Chases starting October 27th. Ottinger uses Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as the basis for a selection of her new work. Her abridged classic novels and accompanying paintings providing a comprehensive snapshot of the famous narratives.

Cover of Pride and Prejudice

Despite the fast pace of life, there remains an impulse to read classic books. With numerous forms of media constantly competing for our attention, it is an overwhelming task to try to keep up with all the books, music, and movies that interest us. We are reminded of our own mortality as there is a finite amount of time in which to engage our desired experiences.

No Thanks, Pride and Prejudice

Ottinger creates a quick solution to digesting well known novels. Using the casual vernacular of our modern time, she summarises synopses of classic tales. Creating an even more succinct summary, the plot and character descriptions are stripped down to their bare essentials. Ottinger glues together the pages of hard cover classic novels, cuts out the centre of the blocks of pages and places her hand written synopses in the empty space.

 Under the Weather, Pride and Prejudice. 

Reinterpreting the book covers but drawn in verisimilitude, the books can be used for fooling those around you into believing you are engrossed by the novel in its entirety. Her adaptations of the stories allow the reader the pleasure of absorbing the main points of the novel in a mere few minutes.

Great Expectations Cover

The title of the exhibition Chances, Choices, Chases serves as categories to further reduce literary masterpieces to single words. Presenting paintings of scenes from the classic tales she gives viewers a snap shot of the book’s contents where a few words and images suggest the infamous story lines. Like Grant Wood, she presents the characters more as archetypes than individuals, relying on costume, prop and setting cues for their identity.

Jane Eyre Cover

Similar to the loose unfinished qualities of Marlene Dumas’s paintings, Ottinger leaves much to the viewer's own ability to fill in the blanks. This newest body of work sees her characters animated and expressive, visually bringing to life stirring plot points from the novels along with the more subtle narrative defining scenarios. We rely on her own dedication to reading the classics as she selects scenes for her paintings which relate to significant moments in each story.

Open Book Image

The tales she depicts are part of a collective cultural consciousness and have been adapted into movies, plays, and other forms of media. The viewer is drawn to the familiarity of characters, identifying with their personas and plight. Exploring the themes of chases, choices, and chances in the characters lives, Ottinger draws parallels to the critical crossroads in our own lives where we are forced to make decisions and thereby live with the outcomes. Internally, her books are stripped down to their bare essential story-line where the content is hollowed out and replaced with page long summaries. Externally, the book jackets are redesigned articulating her gestural style.

Alongside the books she will present paintings of pivotal scenes from the stories allowing the viewer to absorb the crucial plot points where limited words and images encapsulate the infamous story lines. Her work explores our desire to read classic literature especially in a time where there are so many other forms of media competing for our attention.

Eleven Gallery
All art images are courtesy of Eleven – www.elevenfineart.com at 11 Eccleston Street, London, SW1W 9LX - +44 (0)20 7823 5540

Chances, Choices, Chases will be on from 28th October to 3rd December. Private view: 27th October, 6-8pm

Jennie Ottinger was born in 1971 and lives and works in San Francisco. Her recent solo exhibitions include(2010), Johansson Projects, Oakland, USA and Due Process(2010), Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, USA. 2009 image of Jennie Ottinger @Oakland North



Jennie Ottinger
Pride and Prejudice, 2011
Gouache and graphite on paper (cover), summarised and hollowed book
9 x 6 in / 23 x 15 cm

Jennie Ottinger
No, Thanks (Scene from Pride and Prejudice), 2011
Gouache and graphite on paper mounted on panel
11 x 14 in / 28 x 36 cm

Jennie Ottinger
Under the Weather (Scene from Pride and Prejudice), 2011
Gouache and graphite on paper mounted on panel
16 x 20 in / 41 x 51 cm

Jennie Ottinger
Great Expectations, 2011
Gouache and graphite on paper (cover), summarised and hollowed book
9 x 6 in / 23 x 15 cm

Jennie Ottinger
Jane Eyre, 2011
Gouache and graphite on paper (cover), summarised and hollowed book
9 x 6 in / 23 x 15 cm

Open book image

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Apps and Book Trailers

iTunes preview of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Interactive Book app has arrived. The app's zombie elements include hundreds of illustrations, motion graphics, music and sound effects (squish).

It was created by PadWorx Digital Media, which won a 2010 Publishing Innovations award for its ebook version of Bram Stoker's "Dracula." Here's a trailer for "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: The Interactive Book App".

This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
$4.99
Category: Books
Released: Oct 22, 2011
Version: 1.0
Size: 579 MB
Language: English
Seller: PadWorx Digital Media Inc
© 2009 by Quirk Productions, Inc. Cover art courtesy the Bridgeman Art Library International Ltd. Cover zombification and design by Doogie Horner.
Rated 12+ for the following:
Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes
Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

Quirk book has been innovative in marketing its Zombie books.  This article gives an insight into how Web 2.0 marketing works: Pride and prejudice and book trailers: How Quirk Books puts book trailers to use and measures their success.

Brent Cohen, Vice President of Quirk Books, the publisher of the Jane Austen Zombies mash ups: his quote about Zombies book trailers:

Essentially, we are creating a marketing asset that we want others to enjoy and share on the web. So, the success of a book trailer can immediately be measured by views and channel subscribers. It can also be measured in how many times it was embedded on other sites and viewed there.

Book Drum: Illustrated Profiles of Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Pride and Prejudice

Book Drum is a free community site much used by English Literature teachers and students, and the site would welcome assistance from Jane Austen readers to profile Austen's other three books. The site has just published a new illustrated profile of Mansfield Park.

Mansfield Park Link: http://www.bookdrum.com/books/mansfield-park/9780141439808/index.html

It's a particularly impressive accomplishment by Siân Cleaver, assembling extensive background information, maps, music and pictures pertaining to the book.  

Bookdrum also offers excellent profiles of Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion:

The setting of Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice link: http://www.bookdrum.com/books/pride-and-prejudice/9780141439518/index.html

The setting of Persuasion

Persuasion link: http://www.bookdrum.com/books/persuasion/9780141439686/index.html

Jane Austen Made Me Do It Throwdown

Jane Austen Made Me Do It, edited by Laurel Ann Nattress, is available for purchase. This anthology is filled with Jane Austen inspired stories by popular Jane Austen sequel artists. How many of these authors have you read? Choose as many as apply! Also, do you have plans for reading the book? Will it be as a trade book or eBook? Curious minds want to know!

Which authors of Jane Austen Made Me Do It have you read?
	Pamela Aiden
	Elizabeth Aston
	Brenna Aubrey
	Stephanie Barron
	Carrie Bebris
	Jo Beverley
	Diana Birchall
	Frank Delaney Diane Meier
	Monica Fairview
	Amanda Grange
	Syrie James
	Janet Mullany
	Jane Odiwe
	Beth Patillo
	Alexandra Potter
	Myretta Robens
	Jane Rubino Caitlen Rubino Bradway
	Maya Slater
	Margaret Sullivan
	Adriana Trigiani
	Laurie Viera Rigler
	Lauren Willig
	I will read the trade paper back
	I will read the eBook
	I don't plan to read the book
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Jane Austen Live Action Role Play

A Jane Austen LARP sounds like fun, and as the author of this article says, he might do it again if he didn't have to sew his own outfit. For the LARP described in the article, "The idea was basically to collect all the main characters from Jane Austen's 1810s novels at the same ball, "a social mine field" as one participant described it. The venue was [a] picturesque 1750s country house..."

Players read up on Jane Austen's novels and the customs of the day to be able to get into character.

"About 85 participants spent the nine hours of the event talking (in character), dancing to live music, playing whist, performing & listening to music and poetry, and eating. Most people wore gorgeous outfits. Almost every unmarried character's main motivation had to do with marriage. Time went fast."

The most fascinating aspect of this article is that the role play occurred in Sweden! Click here to read the article. 

Misogynistic Review of Sense and Sensibility

It's a good thing that Punch Shaw waited to post his review of Sense and Sensibility, a play written by Jon Jory  and showing at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, until the last day of JASNA's annual meeting in that fair city. The janeites were probably too busy packing, attending the last few workshops, and thinking about other plans to pay his words much attention. Otherwise they might have marched en masse to his house and clobbered him with their parasols.

Punch writes his review, You'll Like Sense and Sensibility ... If You're a Woman,  for two audiences: one for women and the other for men. His review aimed at women goes like this: yadayadayadayayada-do.

His review aimed at men is also a waste of space and ether:

Do not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to be dragged to this overstuffed sofa of a show. No matter how badly you messed up, you did not mess up enough to merit having to sit through this parade of weepy women in strange dresses prattling on about feelings and stuff. Remember that Merchant Ivory film festival she made you go to? Well this is worse. 

Fake a fatal disease or, if necessary, enter the Federal Witness Protection Program, but do not subject yourself to this British-accented wallow in tortured romance.

Go at him, Janeites! Click here and tell him what you think.

A 19th Century Romance in a Western Setting

Gentle Readers,

Raquel Sallaberry from Jane Austen Em Português sent these links to me. As I watched this episode of Wagon Train, I didn't know what to think. Is this truly a spoof of Pride and Prejudice? I don't think so. It's more of a mish-mash between Sense and Sensibility, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Gone With the Wind, and Bonanza, with some Pride and Prejudice thrown in. Wagon Train was a hugely popular show in the 60's. Back then, serious scripts alternated every other week with comedic scripts, as in this instance. Major Adams, played by Ward Bond, is the beleaguered leader who must escort the five women safely and chastely to California, keep jealous wives happy (and their husbands from ogling the girls), and fend off the amorous intentions of the widow Steele.

The premise of The Steele Family Story is hilarious. Mrs. Steele, a widow, and her four daughters, Faith, Hope, Charity, and Prudence are all heading west.  The comedy of the scenes is heightened by the fact that these western ladies are perfectly coiffed at all times and wear quintessential 60's makeup. Life on the dusty trail doesn't affect them one bit - each remains clean, their dresses perfectly ironed, with not one hair out of place, regardless of how much dust the wagons and horses stir up. The four daughters meet four eligible men, including a Mr. Dashwood and Mr.Collingsworth, a henpecked young man ruled by his mama, whose looks are greatly enhanced when he loses his thick spectacles. If you feel like taking a trip down nostalgia lane, while gently laughing (think of the silly comedy in Lost in Austen), then kick back and enjoy.

Thank you, Raquel, for an enjoyable hour.

Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D.James's contribution to Jane Austen sequels

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James will be available in the UK on November 3rd and in December in the U.S.

The author told The Associated Press during a telephone interview that the new book allows her to indulge two great passions: Austen and crime stories.

‘It has been a joy to revisit Pride and Prejudice and to discover, as one always does, new delights and fresh insights. I have to apologise to Jane Austen for involving her beloved Elizabeth in a murder investigation but this fusion of my two enthusiasms – for the novels of Jane Austen and for writing detective stories – has given me great pleasure which I hope will be shared by my readers.’

The plot starts out dramatically. Six years after Darcy and Elizabeth are married, they are still happy and have two sons. But then their lives are changed when Lydia Wickahm arrives in a careening wagon in the middle of the night shouting that her husband has been murdered.And so the mystery begins.

This book and the impending publication of a modern reworking of Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope indicates how popular Jane Austen and her novels still are.  That best-selling novelists are jumping on the Jane Austen sequel bandwagon indicates that there is still plenty of money to be made. Let's hope that both P.D.James and Joanna Trollope come up with better Jane Austen inspired novels than Colleen McCullough, whose excruciating  The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet wasn't worth the $1.00 I had to fork over to a used book store.

Jane Austen Madame Tussaud Throwdown

According to the Press Association: Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth is used to handling statuettes - and now he will have to get to grips with being one .The King's Speech star is being turned into a wax figure for London attraction Madame Tussauds later this year. Model-makers have finished off the first stage by completing a clay version of his head. Principal sculptor Louis Wiltshire has put the finishing touches to the lifelike image which will be used to create a mould for the final cast of the actor's head. Firth - who can currently be seen in the hit spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - will join a group of other A-list stars in December.

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Contributed by Raquel Sallaberry, Jane Austen em Português

A Fashion Find: Historika

Historika on Etsy sells 19th century underpinnings. For those who would like to assemble a Regency era costume, this might be a good place to start.

Sense and Sensibility Graphic Novel Artist, Sonny Liew

Marvel Comic's adaptations of Jane Austen's works have been quite popular since they were published. All were written by Nancy Butler; all use different graphic novel artists. In "Progress of a comic artist", Sonny Liew, who limned Sense and Sensibility, talks about creating the art work for the comics:

Click on each image to read the page

“I guess the editors saw my work and think I’m a good fit for Jane Austen for some reason,” said Liew.

 Most of the heavy lifting of the adaptation was done by the writer Nancy Butler. But Liew needed to know more about it too, and since he had not read a Jane Austen book or seen a movie based on the novels, he quickly got to work.

 “One of the toughest challenges was to gather all the visual reference needed for that kind of era – the way they dress, the architecture – you have to find material for it … I spent a lot of money on Amazon buying all that stuff,” he said.

 One of the debates he had with the writer was how close to the original should their graphic novel be and how far they want to adapt it to “modern sensibilities”. In the end they decided to stay close to the original text."

Janeites Gathering in Fort Worth! October 14-16

Tonight the Janeites are flying and driving to Forth Worth to celebrate their favorite author and the 200 year anniversary of Sense and Sensibility. What joy! Look for images and information as it is tweeted and placed on Facebook. Click here to learn more about this annual JASNA meeting.

Jane Austen Made Me Do It, Book Giveaway and First Stop on the Blog Tour

Thank you Vic, for graciously hosting me on my first stop of my Grand Tour of the blogosphere in celebration of the release of Jane Austen Made Me Do It. As a fellow Janeite and blogger, we have both clocked some major mileage researching, reading and writing about our favorite author, Jane Austen. When I created my blog Austenprose.com in 2007, you were one of the first to leave a comment of encouragement – and I thank you.

I never dreamed that when I started blogging about our “dear Jane” that it would culminate into a book deal, but it did! My new short story anthology, Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature’s Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart, releases tomorrow, October 11, 2011 from Ballantine Books. I have been working on it now for close to two years and I am so anxious for everyone to read it.

How it all came to pass can be credited to passion, connections and fate.

Jane Austen has long been admired for her witty dialogue and engaging plots, inspiring writers for generations. After the 1995 A&E/BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries starring Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy introduced her to a wider audience, there was a flood of Austen-inspired fan fiction available online and new sequels being published monthly. So many so, that they became the new Austenesque book genre. Over the past fifteen years I have enjoyed reading many of them. I had this idea about an Austen themed short story anthology rolling around in my head for years. I just didn’t know if anyone would be interested in reading it, or more importantly, how to get it published.

While working with some of my favorite Austenesque authors to promote their new books on Austenprose, I began to see a thread that might be woven into my dream. Luckily, the Internet is a powerful tool and you just don’t really know who is paying attention. That came in the form of Mitchell Waters, a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. in New York, who also admired Jane Austen and recognized my passion and connections. The fate part of this equation comes from timing in life – and that is the big one! I guess you could say that I had paid my dues to the sweat equity Gods, or whatever, because when we proposed my book idea to my future editor at Random House she loved it, and I had a deal within a week. Thank you Jane Austen!

That is my whirlwind romance with publishing. It took years of hard work and dedication to get to that point. I just didn’t know that when I was pounding away, day and night, about Austen, her novels, and the books and movies that she has inspired, that following my bliss would produce such a surprising reward. As one of my contributors Diana Birchall told me, “You're just Cinderella and this is your ball! Take it and enjoy it.”

I have been favored with twenty-two stories by twenty-four fabulous authors. Here they are in all their glory:

Pamela Aidan • Elizabeth Aston • Brenna Aubrey • Stephanie Barron • Carrie Bebris • Jo Beverley • Diana Birchall • Frank Delaney & Diane Meier • Monica Fairview • Amanda Grange • Syrie James • Janet Mullany • Jane Odiwe • Beth Pattillo • Alexandra Potter • Myretta Robens • Jane Rubino & Caitlen Rubino Bradway • Maya Slater • Margaret Sullivan • Adriana Trigiani • Laurie Viera Rigler • Lauren Willig

Over the next month I will be visiting 30 of my favorite blogs on my Grand Tour. Now that you know my story, I hope you will follow along as I continue sharing how my dream evolved into Jane Austen Made Me Do It and reveal a bit about each of the stories along the way.

Many thanks to all my Janeite friends for your help, and support.

Cheers, Laurel Ann

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.” – Northanger Abbey

About the editor:

A life-long acolyte of Jane Austen, Laurel Ann Nattress is the author/editor of Austenprose.com a blog devoted to the oeuvre of her favorite author and the many books and movies that she has inspired. She is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, a regular contributor to the PBS blog Remotely Connected and the Jane Austen Centre online magazine. Classically trained as a landscape designer at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, she has also worked in marketing for a Grand Opera company and at present she delights in introducing neophytes to the charms of Miss Austen’s prose as a bookseller at Barnes & Noble. An expatriate of southern California, Laurel Ann lives in a country cottage near Snohomish, Washington where it rains a lot. Visit Laurel Ann at her blog Austenprose – A Jane Austen Blog, on Twitter as @Austenprose, on Facebook as Laurel Ann Nattress, and at the Jane Austen Made Me Do It website.

Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature’s Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart, edited by Laurel Ann Nattress
Ballantine Books • ISBN: 978-0345524966

GRAND BOOK GIVEAWAY! Contest is over. Congratulations, phastings. Laurel Ann is giving away a copy of her new book. All you need to do is leave a comment and tell us which contributing author is your favorite and why! The winner will be drawn by random number generator on October 15th, midnight, EST. (Only residents in the US and Canada are eligible.)

Jane Austen Apple Throwdown

It's a sad fact that both Jane Austen and Steve Jobs died too young. Thanks to Steve, I can read Pride and Prejudice on my iTouch. Using iTouch I've watched Jane Austen movie adaptations in hotel lobbies and doctor's offices, looked up information about her life online, and downloaded a number of Jane Austen apps. I listen to Jane Austen novels on my iPod classic while walking my dog. In fact, it's amazing how much Steve Jobs and Jane Austen intersect in my life.

iPhone apps

Do they intersect in yours? How? You may vote for as many as apply.

How Steve Jobs and Jane Austen intersect in my life. I can access Jane on my:
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Arabella Book Cover

I'm not fond of many old yellowed paperback book covers. They make a book seem so dated and anachronistic. But there is something about this 1960s German illustration of Georgette Heyer's Arabella that seems as fresh and retro as an episode of Mad Men. The ink brush lines are full of explosive energy and yet the figure's back is ramrod straight, as Regency custom dictated. Arabella's expression reminds me of a fresh-faced Audrey Hepburn, whose fame reached its peak around the time this edition of the book was published. And who can fault the artist's smart use of color blocking?  Je t'aime.

Friday Fun: Northanger Abbey Comics

Gentle Readers: Nancy Butler has done it again and written another adaptation of a Jane Austen novel for Marvel Comics. Her first efforts were Pride and Prejudice and  Sense and Sensibility. This year she has concentrated on Northanger Abbey! The first issue came out this summer; the second one can be pre-ordered before December.

Northanger Abbey #1 (of 5)

Written by Nancy Butler, Art by Janet Lee, Cover by Julian TEDESCO Totino

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland craves the romantic life of a storybook heroine. When a chance to visit Bath beckons, she is sure she will find the hero of her dreams. But the inexperienced Catherine soon falls prey to a conniving sister and brother. Will her common sense eventually rescue her or will Catherine's bad choices prevent her from ever attracting a good man? Critically acclaimed Author Nancy Butler & Eisner Award Winner Janet Lee bring you another beloved Jane Austin classic!

Format: 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.99

Northanger Abbey #2 (of 5)
Written by Nancy Hajeski, Art by Janet K. Lee, Cover by JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO

Catherine Morland has not exactly taken Bath by storm, but she HAS acquired two suitors—John, boorish and sporting mad, and Henry, a charming young clergyman. Catherine favors Henry, but her brother and her best friend both urge her toward John. Will she listen to her heart or let peer pressure dash her chance of finding true love? - Jacks4Comics

32 PGS./All Ages …$3.99

Available in December

In Willoughby's Arms - Theatre

This year is the Sense and Sensibility's bicentenary, so we must have a little pleasure.

How about Willoughby's arms? In the theater, of course!

1) Sense and Sensibility, in Butleigh Manor, Somerset, by Chapterhouse Theatre Company.

Marianne Dashwood — Heather Mason
Willoughby — Simon Kent
Elinor Dashwood — Cassandra Hodges
Edward Ferrars — Ed Pemberton
Colonel Brandon — Ash Baines (more here)

2) Sense and Sensibility, in Silicon Valley, by Theatre Works.

Marianne Dashwood — Katie Fabel
Willoughby — Michael Scott Mclean
Elinor Dashwood — Jennifer Le Blanc
Edward Ferrars — Thomas Gorrebeeck
Colonel Brandon — Mark Anderson Phillips (more here)

Posted by Raquel Sallaberry, Jane Austen Português

Chawton Cottage: A Visit in the Round

This YouTube video shows the room in which Jane Austen show in great detail. One gets the sense of the size and proportion of the room and where Jane's little writing table is located in relation to the door. She sat next to the window, where she could look outside, and facing the door, able to see a visitor even as she was stashing her writing away.

There are five videos of Chawton Cottage taken by gaianka76.