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Movie Review: Sense and Sensibility Miniseries (BBC TV 2008)

by on August 14, 2011 · 0 comments

in 4.5 Stars, Colonel, Comedy of Manners, Great Britain, Jane Austen, Movie Reviews, Playboys and Rakehells, Regency

I’ve always been a fan of the Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman version of Sense & Sensibility, but I must say this new miniseries has quite blown my mind. It’s wonderful, sumptuous, superbly acted adaptation. Andrew Davies did a fabulous job with the screenplay. We all know the story behind Sense [...]

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Slipping into Jane Austen: Finding Her Voice/Writing Style

by on February 10, 2011 · 1 comment

in Guest Blogger, Jane Austen, M-O

by Jane Odiwe, guest blogger and author of Mr. Darcy’s Secret Hello Keira, thank you very much for inviting me onto the blog to talk about Mr. Darcy’s Secret, and the process of writing and ‘slipping into Jane Austen’/finding her voice and writing style. I made a conscious decision when I started writing fiction inspired [...]

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