Celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth with Austen in Boston!

WHEN: 3-4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 3, 2011
BOOK: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
WHERE: Concord Museum
53 Cambridge Turnpike ~ Concord, MA
RSVP:  Leave a comment here or on Facebook if you’re coming.

Tea & Sweets Friday and Saturday Afternoons, February 3 through March 31 … This winter, invite a friend, neighbor or family member to elegant Brooke Hall at the Concord Museum for a relaxing afternoon of tea and sweets and a visit to the Museum’s history and decorative arts galleries. Tea served with the jewel-like, handmade, silken tea infusers crafted by Tea Forté of Concord makes the afternoon experience a memorable one. Sweets are provided by vicki lee’s of Belmont. Seatings at 1:30 and 3:00; $20/person; $15 Members; includes Museum admission. By advance reservation only (978) 369-9763.

Part 2 will be scheduled for a weekend date later in the month.

WHEN: 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 22, 2011
BOOK: Emma
WHERE: To be announced
RSVP:  Leave a comment here or on Facebook if you’re coming.

PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE TO WEDNESDAY

We’re watching Clueless, the fabulous ’90s adaptation of Emma,
possibly as a double feature with the Emma starring Kate Beckinsale to follow.

WHEN: 7:30-10:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 22, 2011
MOVIE: Clueless
WHERE: Casa Karen
Leave a comment if you don’t have Karen’s address
and want her to e-mail/message you.
RSVP:  Leave a comment here or on Facebook if you’re coming.

Celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth with Austen in Boston!

WHEN: 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 1, 2011
BOOK: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
WHERE: Pho Hoa (Vietnamese restaurant)
409 Hancock St. ~ Quincy, MA 02171
Click here for a map.   Short walk from North Quincy T on the Red Line.
RSVP:  Leave a comment here or on Facebook if you’re coming.

From a VT letter in support of a candidate for city council:
Watching Theirry, one cannot help but be impressed by his intelligence, ingenuity, positive attitude, creativity, and his community building skills. He is equally at home in his Jane Austen book group as he is climbing in the dirt to shore up the foundation of a sagging building. As a result, he is able to relate to and empathize with everyone he encounters. More importantly, he inspires them to join together for the common good.

Team Marianne does not approve of many comments made in the article below: 

http://bookssnob.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/sense-and-sensibility-wrap-up/

Austen In Boston: A Jane Austen Book Club And to quote the Dowager Countess regarding Lucy Steele “…a nastier woman never drew breath”!

From the 2/16/2012 Wall Street Journal(I have many comments but…)
BY JOSEPH STERNBERG
An Internet wit offers a facetious summary of Jane Austen’s collected works: “Female Lead: ‘I secretly love Male Lead. He must never know.’ Male Lead: ‘I secretly love Female Lead. She must never know.’ They find out.” While perhaps not entirely accurate with regard to Austen’s novels, it does describe the comedy of manners now unfolding between the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco.

http://thesleeplessreader.com/2012/02/20/saving-ceecee-honeycutt-by-beth-hoffman/

http://thesleeplessreader.com/2012/02/23/to-say-nothing-of-the-dog-by-connie-willis/

http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol23no1/parsons.html

 

 

“It is throwing a Letter away to send it by a visitor, there is never convenient time for reading it-& Visitor can tell most things as well.—I had thought with delight of saving you the postage—but Money is Dirt” JA to CEA Tuesday Oct 26,1813 This letter also contains “…I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am”.

http://www.chawtonhouse.org/library/biographies/edgeworth.html

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/julian-fellowes-overcomes-his-scruples-and-looks-back-at-season-2-of-downton-abbey/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_chat_coyle.html

http://austenauthors.net/marys-blog-2

“…pictures of perfection as you know make me sick & wicked-but there is very good sense in what he says, & I particularly respect him for wishing to think well of all young Ladies; it shews(sp) an amiable & a delicate Mind.—And he deserves better treatment than to be oblinged to read any more of my Works….You may perhaps like the Heroine, as she is almost too good for me”. JA to Fanny Knight Sunday 3/23/1817

From JASNA SW Pasadena reading group:
This group meets every two months. The next meeting will take place on Sunday, Feb. 26, after the completion of Season Two of DOWNTON ABBEY. We will meet at the home of our ever-gracious host, Gayle San Miguel, to discuss this series. We will be examining the Season Two developments thru the lens of one of the quintessential Great War books, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH by Vera Brittain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2101516/Reading-book-really-better-second-time-round–reading-offer-mental-health-benefits.html

http://reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/jane-austens-letters-letter-65-tues-wed-17-18-jan-1809-from-castle-square/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_chat_coyle.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2012/02/downton-abbey-season-two-episode-six-recap-spanish-flu

“…but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their Lives for Love, if they can” -JA to CEA Tuesday Dec. 27,1808

JASNAEastern PA:

wishes you a happy Valentine’s Day. Perhaps you will receive a pianoforte from Broadwood. Or you’ll receive a letter that begins with: “I can listen no longer in silence.”

 

Jane Austen V day quotes:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150556030199200&id=205026489199

Small photo of Mr. Darcy in the link below:

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/whats-on/view-page/item712440/?campid=facebook

Jane Austen song by Holly Christina

http://thesecretunderstandingofthehearts.blogspot.com/2012/02/meet-holly-christina-from-new-zealand.html

http://austenauthors.net/valentines-day-night-with-mr-darcy-co#comment-21507

http://austenprose.com/2012/02/11/compulsively-mr-darcy-by-nina-benneton-a-review/

http://indiejane.org/2012/02/friday-fun-austenu/

 

2/23 Movie Night: Clueless/Emma at Karen’s house

3/22 Emma Part 1

Jane Austen by Holly Christina Sweet song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD2XIarhE08&feature=share

http://cintascorner.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/novels-vs-film-adaptations/

Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery will be making appearances on “The View” & “Late Show with David Letterman” today. Check them out!

 

From Jane Austen’s House Museum:

Jane Austen quote of the week: ‘My cold has been an off and on cold almost ever since you went away but never very bad.’ – Letter to Cassandra Austen, 9th Feb 1813.

 

From the Walden Woods project:

Today is Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. What did Thoreau have to say about the preeminent Mr. Dickens? “De Quincey & Dickens have not moderation enough. They never stutter—they flow too readily.”—Written September 8, 1851, in his Journal.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Loved-Pride-Prejudice-ebook/dp/B003D8V7GW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1328671261&sr=8-2

 

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-watching-episode-of-downton-abbey-counts-as,27308/

 

“Summer” by Edith Wharton
Wonderful writing despite the ending being sad(although it could have been worse, lol all of Edith Wharton’s ending are except The Buccaneers, she didn’t finish it before she passed). “It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshire on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road”. 3.5 Teacups out of 5 -Kirk

 

“We paid an additional shilling for our Tea, which we took as we chose in an adjoining, & very comfortable room”. Friday 12/9/1808 JA to CEA

http://www.aspiringkennedy.com/2012/02/cote-dazure-or-is-it.html

http://www.ibna.ir/vdcdzj0f5yt0x96.em2y.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/01/10/bollywood-journal-jane-austens-india-adventures/?mod=google_news_blog

 An Evening Inspired by Downton Abbey
1 Non-Member Ticket, Thursday, Feb. 23, 6:30-9pm
WGBH studios, One Guest Street, Boston, MA
Donation Amount: $35
Already a WGBH Member? Get tickets here >
…
Join us for a very special evening featuring the music, fashion, and flavors that make the era portrayed in Masterpiece’s Downton Abbey so appealing and memorable. Listen to the New England Brass Band (pictured at left) bring the golden age of British music to life with timeless classics by Gustav Holst and other English composers. Taste some of the dishes served to the British aristocracy, and feast your eyes on the fashion worn in Britain and the United States in the early 20th century. See authentic and modern interpretations of dress from the time period depicted in Downton Abbey shared by fashion historians from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Lasell College. And hear insights on the culture and cuisine of the Edwardian Era offered by Boston University Gastronomy Professor Dr. Kyri Claflin.

http://sarahemsley.com/2012/02/02/virtue-is-its-humphry-ward/

http://enjoyengland.typepad.com/enjoy_england/2012/02/mystery-photo-friday-322012.html

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/02/sensibly-saving-jane-austen/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=addthisG

 

“I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down”. JA to CEA Thursday April 18, 1811

Jane Austen’s House Museum

Jane Austen quote of the week: ‘The weather, for winter weather, is delightful.’ – letter to Cassandra Austen, 24th Jan 1813.

Free tours of the home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts) focused on Charles Dickens and his visits there. The British author had close ties to the American poet – and their friendship has left some fun anecdotes which will be sha…red by tour guide Rob Velella. This special tour will be approximately 60 minutes. Hosted by the National Park Service in honor of Dickens’s bicentenary year.

These free tours begin at noon, 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. Space is limited but will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

http://austenprose.com/2012/01/31/a-jane-austen-inspired-valentines-day-giveaway-with-bingleys-teas/