MORE AUSTEN WEBSITES
www.janeausten.co.uk
www.janeausten.co.uk
ALSO www.literarywarwickshire.com explores Austen, Eliot, Gaskell, Larkin, Shakespeare and Tolkien in Warwickshire
Seeking Jane Austen Chat Page
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THE AUSTENS AND ME!:
Last month I wrote about moving back to Austen country in Kent (I’m now living only a few miles from Godmersham, where Jane often visited her brother Edward and his family, staying for months at a time). Well, how about this for a coincidence? My son has just been offered a place to study at St John’s College, Oxford - the college where Jane’s father and her brothers James and Henry were students! I swear none of this is deliberately planned.
TRAVELLING WITH AUSTEN
Julian Spencer Rouse has been in touch to tell me about his driver-guide tours of Austen country. An interesting off-shoot of Julian’s travel business Echo Tango is to organise personal itineraries for Austen fans, chauffeuring them around many of the sites described in www.seekingjaneausten.com and sharing his knowledge about Austen’s life and writing.
If this interests you, you can find out more from his websites:
Susan (March 2010)
I am looking forward now to visiting St John’s on two counts (if son gets the required grades this summer, that is!)
Apparently George Austen was known as ‘the handsome proctor’ of the college, and it was there that he met Cassandra, his future wife. She came to Oxford to visit her uncle, Dr Theophilus Leigh, who was Master of Balliol College.
While Jane’s elder brothers were students at St John’s they together edited a magazine called The Loiterer.
www.jollyfineknits.com
Hand-knitted cardigans,mittens etc for babies and children. Great gifts!
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DVD of the BBC’s recent adaptation of EMMA and tie-in edition of the book
BAFTA FOR DARCY
Colin Firth lost out on an Oscar for his role in the film A Single Man, but was successful at the Baftas. For many of us, he will forever be associated with his portrayal of Darcy in the 1995 TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Fifteen years later I for one can’t read the book without picturing the actor, who now says (according to The Observer) that the three women in his life are his wife, his mother and Jane Austen!