Hi, I found your channel through the Gene Austin July #.I’m reading death comes to Pemberley Right now and the writing is exquisite. She really respects Jane Austen and it shoes. When you said you love mysteries I had to subscribe. I started my channel on my 70th birthday Which is almost 2 years ago next month and the community is wonderful. Congratulations on your newborn. Aloha from Hawaii
Hi and thank you for commenting and subscribing! I'm so glad you're enjoying Death Comes to Pemberley, you have to watch the adaptation as well! Wonderful to have another lover of mysteries in the community ❤
Congratulations on your new little one...and you look lovely! Here is my list for JA July: 1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels--I reread "Persuasion" in anticipation of the new film, but this time it was annotated by David Shapard 2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels--read "The History of England" from Vol 2 of the Juvenilia 3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time--reading Park Honan's biography "Jane Austen: Her Life" 4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time--read Georgette Heyer's "False Colours" 5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen--poetry of Lord Byron 6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book--watched 1995 "Persuasion" to cleanse my palate after the Netflix disaster 7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book--saw the Netflix "Persuasion", which I do not consider a direct adaptation, so I am calling it as a modern one
Jane Austen retellings: The "Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman" trilogy by Pamela Aidan is excellent; "Jane Fairfax" by Joan Aiken; "Eliza's Daughter" by Joan Aiken. For modern adaptations, you might like to try the Austen Project books: "Sense and Sensibility" by Joanna Trollope, "Northanger Abbey" by Val McDermid, "Emma" by Alexander McCall Smith; "Eligible: a modern retelling of Proe and Prejudice" by Curtis Sittenfield
I'd love if you did something on Agatha Christie. I think the symbolism she uses like nursery rhymes or biblical references haven't been explored that much. Don't know if that's something you'd be willing to do in your channel but I'm happy to continue lapping up Austen videos too
I mainly do Austen because my PhD focuses on her work and it's something I know really well by now. Having said this, I love Agatha Christie (she was actually my very first literary obsession when I was a teenager) so I would totally consider that. I think I need to branch out and discuss other authors I love, even if I'm not as much of an expert on them!
a modern adaptation i enjoyed this the youtube vlog series “the lizzie bennet diaries” i’m not sure how well received it is as an adaptation but i found it fun and it really lit up my interest in austens work a few years ago. i’ve returned to it many times and my sister and i enjoy watching it together every few years. i’m looking forward to watching love and friendship too, once i’ve read lady susan.
Thank you for your comment! Please do read Lady Susan, it's brilliant! I actually surprised myself by really enjoying The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. I tend to be sceptical of retellings, but LBD manages to be fairly faithful to the spirit of the novel while being completely modern of course. Definitely one I should rewatch soon!
LBD is basically the only p&p adaptation that makes Lydia a sympathetic character. I love that Lydia so much. I thought they handled her crisis so well, really finding a way to translate the problem to something with a similar potential fall-out. They are having some sort of anniversary (10 yr?) and Ashley Clements is doing a re-watch of each episode with commentary, guests, etc.
@@beatrixscudeler I read "Praying with Jane - 31 days through the Prayers of Jane Austen" by Rachel Dodge. The prayers are all in the book and it draws on them for devotional material. While the devotional material is pretty rote, it is a nice read.
Thank you so much for commenting! I've only seen Whit Stillman's Love and Friendship, but not Metropolitan! That's an excellent suggestion, hopefully I'll get to it soon and review it! Edit: I have since watched it and loved It!
I would love to hear more about your understanding of feminism, what it means exactly, how you understand it, whether you understand yourself as a feminist, different kinds of feminism, etc.
Sure, I can do this! It's such a loaded topic, so it definitely deserves a full video. What I'll say here is that the word has definitely been hijacked to the point that it's difficult to use. Even so, I think early feminists (so early that they wouldn't even have used the term!) and women's rights advocates in the 19th century had a much more coherent understanding of how to help women in their uniqueness. A lot of contemporary feminists (though not all!) don't value or cherish women as a whole, in their femaleness and their reproductive potential. But there are also lots of thinkers who embrace a sex-realist, maternal, care-based feminism, and I think that's beautiful.
I read Joanna Trollope's "Sense and Sensibility" some years ago. I think it was part of a series of six modern writers each re-telling one of the major Jane Austen novels. I would have to re-read it before I made any comments, but I don't remember hating it. I haven't read any others of that series, so I cannot comment of them either. They would be a source of modern adaptations written by people who already had their own successful novels. If you have read any of those novels and feel so inclined, you could do a review.
