a little bit of jane

i spent a good part of my 4 years at college as some kind of english major. i have always loved reading and writing. in high school my senior english teacher assigned us each a british novel to read and write a paper on. i was given emma by jane austen. read the first 2 chapters and the last 2 chapters and wrote my paper. got an a! pretty good huh? i hated the book! i was so lost in the language, the cast of characters, and found it just odd.

well, i had a couple of great college professors that loved brit lit! since i had to take 2 classes on brit lit i had no choice but to give it a try. i remember reading pride and prejudice. my roommate was reading it as well. she was flying through it and i was not. well...i stuck with it and at chapter 4 i was gone...i couldn't get through it fast enough, but this time because i was so into the story and characters!! that began my love affair with brit lit, especially jane austen. i have since read several others and seen several of the adaptations. this summer a friend and i went to see becoming jane in the theater and i was even more intrigued by this great woman.

well...to my great joy pbs is now running her entire collection on masterpiece theater!! woo hoo!!! hubby is thrilled beyond belief as well:) so much so he offered to do the laundry sunday night instead of watch the show with me. this past week was persuasion....i had not read this one yet, but can't wait to get my hands on a copy now! the week before was jane eyre....read it and didn't get to catch the whole movie.

but...if anyone out there is even the slightest fan of brit lit or miss jane...check out pbs!! it has been incredible! they have several things on their website including the listing of the movies and dates, interviews with the lead roles, articles on jane herself....very good!! and, i've seen several masterpiece theaters and thought they were a bit well, british. but these are very well done!!!

so enjoy friends.....escape into the world of jane austen.....it is a world all of it's own

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the back door

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