Jane Austen's House
Jane Austen's House
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Jane Austen and the Art of Writing: Spotlight on The Watsons
Jane Austen's House is delighted to present a mini-documentary: 'Spotlight on The Watsons'.
The Watsons is the earliest surviving manuscript of a novel by Jane Austen in the process of development. Looking at it in depth can teach us a lot about the way Jane wrote.
This film examines the manuscript itself and offers insights into Jane Austen's creative process.
Presented by:
Professor Kathryn Sutherland, Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism at the University of Oxford
Andrew Honey, Book Conservator at the Bodleian Libraries
Filming and editing by Alex Hyndman
Music and direction by Dominic Gerrard
Produced by Sophie Reynolds for Jane Austen's House
With thanks to The Bodleian Li...
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Jane Austen's House, Chawton
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Welcome to Jane Austen’s House, one of the most important places in the history of literature and the development of the novel. Here, in the village of Chawton, Hampshire, Jane Austen lived from July 1809 until May 1817. Living here, Jane's genius flourished and she wrote or revised and had published her six great novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northan...
Marianne Dashwood to John Willoughby
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An extract from Sense and Sensibility, chapter 29. Performed by Kirsten Scharneck. Directed by Darren Tunstall; camera by Christopher Jenkins. Produced by Guildford School of Acting for Jane Austen's House As part of our Art Fund Reimagine project, we’re making a series of videos of short extracts from Jane Austen’s novels, performed by actors who are the same age as the characters.
John Willoughby to Marianne Dashwood
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An extract from Sense and Sensibility, chapter 29. Performed by Liam Holmes and Tanwen Stokes. Directed by Darren Tunstall; camera by Christopher Jenkins. Produced by Guildford School of Acting for Jane Austen's House As part of our Art Fund Reimagine project, we’re making a series of videos of short extracts from Jane Austen’s novels, performed by actors who are the same age as the characters.
Pride and Prejudice: Character and Contradiction
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Jane Austen's House presents its 2023 Annual Lecture, filmed onsite in Chawton with acclaimed Austen scholar Professor John Mullan... “I believe, ma’am, I may safely promise you never to dance with him.” When Elizabeth Bennet says this to her mother about Mr Darcy, she believes that she is speaking the truth. She is destined, like most of Jane Austen's characters, to contradict her words by her...
Mr and Mrs Bennet
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An extract from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 1, filmed in the Drawing Room at Jane Austen's House in Chawton - the very room where Jane Austen herself first read aloud from a published copy of her beloved novel, on 27 January 1813. 210 years later we present a new interpretation of this classic scene, performed by Jeany Spark and Joseph Chance; directed by Dominic Gerrard. This film was created...
Lucy Steele’s letter to Edward Ferrars
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An extract from Sense and Sensibility, chapter 49. Performed by Morgan Black. As part of our Art Fund Reimagine project, we’re making a series of videos of short extracts from Jane Austen’s novels, performed by actors who are the same age as the characters.
Stay-making part 5: binding
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Jordan Mitchell-King was a Reimagine Resident at Jane Austen's House from October-December 2022. For her project she created a hand-stitched pair of reproduction Regency stays, appropriate to the year 1810, documenting her creative process on film as she went along. Find out more: janeaustens.house/stitching-stays/
Stay-making part 4: lacing eyelets
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Jordan Mitchell-King was a Reimagine Resident at Jane Austen's House from October-December 2022. For her project she created a hand-stitched pair of reproduction Regency stays, appropriate to the year 1810, documenting her creative process on film as she went along. Find out more: janeaustens.house/stitching-stays/
Stay-making part 3: basting
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Jordan Mitchell-King was a Reimagine Resident at Jane Austen's House from October-December 2022. For her project she created a hand-stitched pair of reproduction Regency stays, appropriate to the year 1810, documenting her creative process on film as she went along. Find out more: janeaustens.house/stitching-stays/ Audio: Ecossaise in E-flat by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons...
Stay-making part 2: construction
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Jordan Mitchell-King was a Reimagine Resident at Jane Austen's House from October-December 2022. For her project she created a hand-stitched pair of reproduction Regency stays, appropriate to the year 1810, documenting her creative process on film as she went along. Find out more: janeaustens.house/stitching-stays/ Audio: Evening Fall Piano by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons ...
Stay-making part 1: research and sketching
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Jordan Mitchell-King was a Reimagine Resident at Jane Austen's House from October-December 2022. For her project she created a hand-stitched pair of reproduction Regency stays, appropriate to the year 1810, documenting her creative process on film as she went along. Find out more: janeaustens.house/stitching-stays/
Jane Austen writing to James Stanier Clarke, 1 April 1816
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A letter written by Jane Austen to the Prince Regent's librarian, James Stanier Clarke. Performed by Verna Vyas. Part of our Art Fund Reimagine project, making a series of videos of short extracts from Jane Austen's novels and letters.
Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne
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An extract from Persuasion, chapter 23. Performed by Arthur Wilson. As part of our Art Fund Reimagine project, we’re making a series of videos of short extracts from Jane Austen’s novels, performed by actors who are the same age as the characters.
Lydia writes to Mrs Forster
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An extract from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 47. Performed by April Wells. As part of our Art Fund Reimagine project, we’re making a series of videos of short extracts from Jane Austen’s novels, performed by actors who are the same age as the characters.
Mr Darcy apologises to Elizabeth
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Mr Darcy apologises to Elizabeth
Annual Lecture 2022
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Annual Lecture 2022
Pride & Prejudice Day 2022: Jane Austen Societies around the world
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Pride & Prejudice Day 2022: Jane Austen Societies around the world
Making the 'Chawton Leaf' Biscuit
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Making the 'Chawton Leaf' Biscuit
Austen Wednesdays: Sam Causer
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Austen Wednesdays: Sam Causer
Awesomely Austen's Adventures - Directed & Animated by Cameron Carr
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Awesomely Austen's Adventures - Directed & Animated by Cameron Carr
Still here, by Cameron Carr
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Still here, by Cameron Carr
The Ballroom - by Cameron Carr
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The Ballroom - by Cameron Carr
So… who is Jane Austen, and why does she matter?
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So… who is Jane Austen, and why does she matter?
Molly Lambourn introduces 'Leap of Faith'
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Molly Lambourn introduces 'Leap of Faith'
Ellora Sutton reads her poem 'Cassandra'
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Ellora Sutton reads her poem 'Cassandra'
Illustration for March, by Léna Gibert
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Illustration for March, by Léna Gibert
Amalie Gissel reads the opening lines of 'Pride & Prejudice', in Danish translation
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Amalie Gissel reads the opening lines of 'Pride & Prejudice', in Danish translation
Austen Wednesdays: Emma Rutherford
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Austen Wednesdays: Emma Rutherford
Beautifull
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Beautifull

Комментарии

  • @marksiezure3285
    @marksiezure3285 2 часа назад

    This was so enjoyable!!!

  • @ellie698
    @ellie698 3 дня назад

    Please work on making your sound quality more professional. Most basic RUclipsrs manage to get good sound quality. Much better than yours 😵‍💫 Content of conversation good though 👍🏼

  • @ellie698
    @ellie698 3 дня назад

    John's signature place holding "aaaaannndd" 🤓😆

  • @margo3367
    @margo3367 9 дней назад

    Jane Austen famously did not like living in Bath and her mother, sister and herself fell on hard times after her father died. Maybe it was, as you say, hitting too close to home. Really enjoyed this. Thank you.

  • @gracetaylor7351
    @gracetaylor7351 10 дней назад

    Thank you for this ! I really found this very interesting ! I don’t hear lot about the Watsons .❤

  • @loretta7851
    @loretta7851 12 дней назад

    Truly wonderful thank you so much. I am an admirer of Jane Austen and I was lucky to visit Bath this summer.. I’ve learned so much from your presentation

  • @user-fm6tj6is6u
    @user-fm6tj6is6u 13 дней назад

    Thank you so much for this! Really interesting. I especially enjoyed hearing that The Watsons is set in a village deep in mud! 😆

  • @catrionahall8435
    @catrionahall8435 13 дней назад

    Truly informative material, especially the paper and patches. Thank you so much.

  • @CarlIngersoll
    @CarlIngersoll Месяц назад

    Listening to these characters speak out so definitely at the first bit of evidence, and them contradict themselves at the second scrap of information - it is as if they're all trying to be British (aha! Is THAT what Jane Austen is teasing about?) We must be perfect people, and part of that is having perfect and complete knowledge because we are the masters of our colonial Empire, so at the first opportunity we will judge and announce our decisions. We don't want to be children, we want to be adults - closed-minded and sure of ourselves - That will make a good impression on the marriage market. [Note that the author of this comment is English, too.] So contradiction in particular scenes comes from living inside a greater context of carefully not observing oneself.

  • @brisaroman2448
    @brisaroman2448 2 месяца назад

    Amazing! I'd love to visit some day😍👍🏻👏🏻⚘️📜amo a Jane Austen💕

  • @danikiss1018
    @danikiss1018 3 месяца назад

    It is the first of september and i dont know how did this happend

  • @diannew6066
    @diannew6066 3 месяца назад

    I cannot believe it's taken me 4 years to see this video! Thank you, any of us who are such fans of JA that we've read even all the biographies and her letters, do appreciate your showing us these miniatures of the Digweeds. Having read about them in the Letters and the biographies, we are very familiar with this family.

  • @emilystern5401
    @emilystern5401 3 месяца назад

    Thank you for posting this on RUclips!! I really enjoyed the talk

  • @yaaraamozig4862
    @yaaraamozig4862 4 месяца назад

    Thank you🙏

  • @yaaraamozig4862
    @yaaraamozig4862 4 месяца назад

    I love mrs. Bennet

  • @Yeayha
    @Yeayha 4 месяца назад

    13:47

  • @AdDewaard-hu3xk
    @AdDewaard-hu3xk 6 месяцев назад

    JA use of the modal verb "must".

  • @AdDewaard-hu3xk
    @AdDewaard-hu3xk 6 месяцев назад

    Mr Bennett, fave character, "such an odd mixture . . ."

  • @AdDewaard-hu3xk
    @AdDewaard-hu3xk 6 месяцев назад

    Trying to remember JM at a "contest" berween Austen (he was championing her) and Bronte.

    • @melb5665
      @melb5665 5 месяцев назад

      It’s on RUclips, John Mullan and Kate Mosse for the Intelligence squared Queens of English Literature debate

  • @Droosieloo
    @Droosieloo 7 месяцев назад

    Fabulous job by April, great performance.

  • @franciscomorales7863
    @franciscomorales7863 7 месяцев назад

    You are the best!! The new Jane Austen!! Congratulations!!

  • @mesamies123
    @mesamies123 7 месяцев назад

    Brilliant! Thank you! 🙂

  • @yon8378
    @yon8378 7 месяцев назад

    You don't mention what I think is the most blatant contradiction in P&P: Darcy's saying that once his good opinion of someone is lost, it is lost forever!

    • @kevinrussell-jp6om
      @kevinrussell-jp6om 4 месяца назад

      But he NEVER lost his good opinion of Lizzie, if that is what you're suggesting. He made his case to Lizzie, mended his own ways, and hoped things down the road might improve. He didn't change his mind about Wickham, but he adjusted as was indicated. IF you're mentioning his first impression of her from the initial assembly, that impression was built on little but appearance and his assessment of her likely status in society. As soon as he was in her presence a few times, the appeal of her wit and character (when viewed in light of her smile and physical attractions) became obvious.

    • @yon8378
      @yon8378 4 месяца назад

      @@kevinrussell-jp6om You are right. He could not have lost his good opinion of Lizzie because he never had one to start with. Still, Darcy's proclamation is rather pompous, and does not endear him to me.

    • @kevinrussell-jp6om
      @kevinrussell-jp6om 4 месяца назад

      @@yon8378 Yes, Darcy has flaws/warts. He is pompous, and Americans of a certain type will have trouble warming to him. We have a much easier time identifying with a guy like Captain Wentworth, or with Gabe Oak in Far From the Madding Crowd. Darcy is proud and Upper Crust.

  • @mandyclancey4180
    @mandyclancey4180 8 месяцев назад

    The Jane Austen House is so beautiful! I would love to go back one day. ❤️

  • @LizziebelleXOX
    @LizziebelleXOX 8 месяцев назад

    I’d love to visit one day, it’s my dream. Jane Austen is my favourite author of all time, I’ve read and loved all her books 📚🌷👒

  • @mrme3717
    @mrme3717 8 месяцев назад

    Here's a thought Did our Jane go to university. I don't believe so. Ok, what about Shakespeare, did he attend a University. I don't know, but I don't recall that he did. My point is, that such brilliance, such ability, they don't necessarily come from education or even broad life experience. It seems they come more from an ability to observe and accurately perceive society and to describe it, with wit, with respect, and with fitting amd moral comentary, and I don't think you can do that if all that isn't in you.

  • @beatrizoviedo6452
    @beatrizoviedo6452 8 месяцев назад

    Spectacular performance! Congratulations on that wonderful work. The actor's voice is fantastic. I could listen to him more and more times. This is my favourite moment in the novel. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

  • @gwynwellliver4489
    @gwynwellliver4489 8 месяцев назад

    Lovely. I also laughed often. Austen always makes me smile, as if you are sharing secrets together. Thank you everyone. Like many, I am currently enjoying Mr. West in ACGS. ❤

  • @gwynwellliver4489
    @gwynwellliver4489 8 месяцев назад

    Anyone who uses a Monty Python reference in a Jane Austen lecture is marvelous! ❤😂

  • @blindpew69
    @blindpew69 8 месяцев назад

    Haha. Very good, Alice. Only a question of time before you’re recruited onto The History Channel. Need a fresh face there asap and an alternative to Dan Snow etc, plus Lucy Worsley, now she’s gone to the dark side (quiz shows!!)

  • @benedictcowell6547
    @benedictcowell6547 9 месяцев назад

    My favourite adaptation, which yieIds the most definitive EIizabeth [EIizabeth Garvie] aIso yieIds the most probIematic Darcy [RintouI] makes EIizabeth's change her mind He does not smiIe enough and the portrait at PemberIey is misconceived]. The best Mr. Darcy is sadIy no Ionger extant. It was AIan BadeI who does smiIe and renders some of Darcy's mosr provocative remarks credibIe and eventuaIIy persuasive. I remember his smiIe and voice when he remarks that 'Dancing is aImost over-rated accompIishments , it is in vogue amongst Iess poIished societies Every Savage can dance.' We know he is speaking epigramaticaIIy .. If you want to get some idea of the of the dramatic tension between EIizabeth' and Darcy try to find AIan BadeI in a scene from a BBC production of the WinsIow Boy' pIaying opposite MicheIe Dotrice. The finaI scene reveaIs the attraction of WinsIow's daughter and Sir Robert [in truth Carson] and his trying to conceaI his vuInerabiIity. It is a moving scene but it dispIays some of the quaIities that BadeI brough to Darcy. and come to think of it MicheIe Dotrice wouId have been a very credibIe EIizabeth. Another reveIation of what EIizabeth true thinks of Mr Darcy comes in the scene that John MuIIen mentioned mentions at the piano at Rosings when she says to CoIoneI FitzwiIIiam' shaII we as your cousin how it is possibIe for a man of sense of education finds it difficuIt to recommend himseIf to strangers?'[this is for memory I do not think it is an exact quote but the gist'] If I have one criticism of the adaptation afore said it is when at the piano Darcy remarks about her expressing opinions that are not in fact her own she' Iaughs heartiIy' 'and it is reveaIing of the deeper, more private EIizabeth but in this adaptation she does not but the Iaugh shouId be hearty and it is interesting. Darcy has penetrated her secret and that is attractive to her. So few peopIe divined it

  • @ClaireCopeland-n6y
    @ClaireCopeland-n6y 9 месяцев назад

    It's usually a toss up between Jane and the Brontes for me. When i want to cry and take kife seriously give me the Brontes. When I want to laugh give me Austen. But the older i get I see that Jane saw the tears also but like her "i dearly love a laugh" and after all that makes life easier to bear

    • @ClaireCopeland-n6y
      @ClaireCopeland-n6y 9 месяцев назад

      I mean life. And Pride and prejudice is my favorite book

  • @beckihayes220
    @beckihayes220 9 месяцев назад

    Love to hear John Mullion talking on Jane Austen I too have heard him in person on online many times If he talks again Can you ask him to tell you what he knows about Janes Father ..... In my mind I now see someone like John himself Immensely proud of Jane

    • @beckihayes220
      @beckihayes220 9 месяцев назад

      Mullon So sorry Pesky spell checker changed my message

  • @B_oitshepo_
    @B_oitshepo_ 9 месяцев назад

    This got awkward really fast

  • @מריםבןישי
    @מריםבןישי 9 месяцев назад

    the 1970 persuasion is excellent even though the hair styling is strange It is pretty close to the novel as to script and character

  • @מריםבןישי
    @מריםבןישי 9 месяцев назад

    no film of an hour and a half can even begin to capture JA personally I have never watched any production under 5 hours. I wonder that you have chosen such shallow adaptions

  • @--enyo--
    @--enyo-- 10 месяцев назад

    That ‘Jane Austen’s Monsters’ lecture sounds incredibly interesting. I’d love to see that turned into another book so we could all access/read it.

  • @beckihayes220
    @beckihayes220 10 месяцев назад

    Lovely man I saw him at the hey festival signing books when ' what matters in Jane Austen ' He was soo lovely chatting to everyone in such a animated way that I joined the queue so I could say hello to him Quite a few of his lectures are on RUclips and he's always a delight to watch

    • @kevinrussell-jp6om
      @kevinrussell-jp6om 4 месяца назад

      Yes, Prof. Mullan is an absolute delight. He teaches me to cut Mrs. Bennet some slack (she is more absurdity than monster) and points out so many subtle aspects of the book that the uninitiated 16-year-old would miss on the first reading. Discussions like this make me wish I'd followed a career in literature.

    • @elizabethneill3825
      @elizabethneill3825 2 месяца назад

      @@kevinrussell-jp6om He seems to have so much joy to share.

    • @ellie698
      @ellie698 3 дня назад

      I've watched him speak at Hay Festival via RUclips. Very entertaining talk.

  • @АлияУварова-ч4м
    @АлияУварова-ч4м 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you!

  • @reynardthefox
    @reynardthefox 10 месяцев назад

    Brilliant.my favorite historian ...she must do the remake of Pride and Prejudice...and Zombies

  • @mrme3717
    @mrme3717 10 месяцев назад

    Jolly good show Alice. Well done.

  • @EllenMariaM
    @EllenMariaM 11 месяцев назад

    My favourite contradictions by Mrs. Bennet are when she contradicts what she's saying in the very moment by behaving in opposition to it. Such as when she promises to be true to her word to never speak to Elizabeth again (after her refusal of Mr. Collins), while continuing to talk to her many sentences after. Or when she says about some subject I forget, that she'll never talk to any soul about it, and then says that she said the exact same thing to Mrs. Phillips the other day (that she wouldn't mention the subject to anyone again), so this moment of the conversation we're reading, contradicting what she said to Mrs. Phillips, and what she is saying now, by bringing up the topic again.

  • @jannie690
    @jannie690 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for sharing this.

  • @happydog4929
    @happydog4929 11 месяцев назад

    JA good stuff

  • @KenricKite
    @KenricKite 11 месяцев назад

    Makes me want to go back and read the book!

  • @brreezy421
    @brreezy421 11 месяцев назад

    Book rules

  • @Justme-wf5fv
    @Justme-wf5fv 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you! Just wonderful !

  • @Pazzelin
    @Pazzelin 11 месяцев назад

    I've never favored Darcy. I much prefer Edward Ferrars and Frederick Wentworth.

  • @dashwood_and_ferrars
    @dashwood_and_ferrars 11 месяцев назад

    Pulling my heartstrings! Excellent job.

  • @dashwood_and_ferrars
    @dashwood_and_ferrars 11 месяцев назад

    Fantastic delivery.