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Movie Review: Lost in Austen starring Jemima Rooper and Elliot Cowan

by Keira 07.19.2011

This three hour BBC miniseries is just precious. It’s lighthearted, humorous, and perfect. Pride and Prejudice is revisited and reintroduced. Lost in Austen pays homage to Jane Austen’s original masterpiece while reinventing it. My friend, who is not a Pride and Prejudice fan—blasphemous I know!—loved this film. My other friend, who is a huge fan [...]

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Review: Wicked Company by Ciji Ware

by Cara Lynn 11.05.2010

by Cara Lynn, guest reviewer Wicked Company was originally published in 1992 and has been reissued in October 2010.  Basically it is the story of female dramatists, playwrights, as well as the actors and actresses, the directors and producers, during the years 1761-1771, mostly in London. The author calls herself a ‘historical novelist.’  In her [...]

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What’s in a Name? Kittens and Characters

by Guest Blogger 09.14.2010

by Grace Elliot, guest blogger and author of A Dead Man’s Debt. Last Thursday I found a stray kitten playing in the road; the cutest little thing all purrs and passion paws. Being a veterinarian, for safety’s sake, I took her into work but despite notices everywhere no owner has come forward. With a boring [...]

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