Jane Austen July Vlog #2
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- #janeaustenjulyIn which I vlog Jane Austen July . . .
Jane Austen July is a month-long readathon all about Jane Austen.
My announcement video: • Jane Austen July 2024 ...
My co-host, Marissa, Blatantly Bookish: • Jane Austen July Annou...
My co-host, Claudia, Spinster’s Library: • Jane Austen July 2024 ...
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Music: English Country Garden, Aaron Kelly: / @contactkennya
The Challenges
1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen (ie, published between 1775-1817)
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation/retelling of a Jane Austen book
Books Mentioned
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen: tinyurl.com/yc...
Sanditon: tinyurl.com/n3...
The Watsons: tinyurl.com/un...
Emma: tinyurl.com/y9...
The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India: / 606346.the_travels_of_...
The Anarchy, William Dalrymple: / the-anarchy
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, Rory Muir: / gentlemen-of-uncertain...
The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries, J.T. Williams: / drama-and-danger
Things Mentioned
Pride and Prejudice (2005): www.imdb.com/t...
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: • The Lizzie Bennet Diar...
My Novels
The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst
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The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
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I’ve created “Jane August” for those (myself) who are only halfway through their Jane Austen pile and still loving it! Whoo hoo! 🎉
That's an amazing idea! I'm actually at the middle of my pick for a piece of historical fiction set in Jane Austen's times, so I guess I'm already participating in Jane August 😂
I welcome you 😂
I wonder if the thing about the P and P films is dependent on which you saw first? That dynamic does factor for many. For me the 1995 is what I loved first and strongly enough to make all others look inferior. I’m sure it works the other way around.
True, perhaps. I saw the 2005 one first, but I also watched the 1995 one very early and that was probably my favourite one when I was a teenager.
Have you seen the 1940 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with Laurence Olivier? If not, you should give it a go. The time period is brought forward making it a completely different experience.
Love it dearly with all its faults ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@janetsmith8566 oh, and aren't there several. It's just so charming!
I must some time!
I've also been reading multiple things at once lately, which is not how I prefer to read. I think it is a stress thing, having a bit too much going on at once. So I'll be finishing my Jane Austen July reading in August. I hardly got to anything, but I did re-read Sense and Sensibility. I'm halfway through Mansfield Park and really enjoying it so far!
Welcome to JaneAugust. I too am halfway through MP!
Favourite thing I’ve read: it’s always her actual novel. Going through all 7 (I include Lady Susan tho it’s not “canonical”)- reading some, some on audio. Still howl listening to Sarah Bidel doing Robert Ferrers (“My DEAR Madam…). Never gets old.
Don't be so disappointed! Having your second novel published this month must have taken a lot of attention and that's perfectly fine 😊. There will be another JAJ next year 🤗
Haha yes, it has been a busy month!
Don't be too hard on yourself. Seems like you got through quite a bit this past month.
I completely failed. I read absolutely nothing that related to the challenges.
Instead, I stewed myself in RUclips content of many different people (Doc Octavia Cox, John Mullan, Lucy Worsley, etc.---it's a long list of contributors) talking about Austen novels, ranking them, discussing themes, explaining why they liked this one better than another, why this video version is superior or lame, etc.
I could blame you and your other two partners in crime for this obsession, but I wouldn't dare. It's a self-inflicted malady.
However, I will have to give the Rory Muir book a go. I read the first volume of his biography of The Duke (dealt with his youth, time in India, and in the Peninsula). The Duke was a second son who did well.
Next thing you know, we will have Austen August for the tardy, slow, or intransigent that just don't want to move from the Regency period.
Advance into the Victorian Age?
Impossible.
Regarding the 2005 P&P. I don't think the show runners captured the feel of the period very well (it does feel too modern), but the Bennet girls are (sorry to state it) much prettier than the 1995 versions, and they SHOULD be to tempt Darcy and Bingley. Donald Sutherland is rigged out with his long hair as if he were a hippy yokel. Matt Macfadyen also LOOKS the way Darcy should. He was even better in Little Dorrit.
I love the 2005 film so much. I think that was a turning pointi n my relationship to P&P to enjoying it instead of just appreciating it.
I loved reading reading pride and prejudice sooo much. I also enjoyed what Kitty did next.
Off topic: I wonder how middle aged people during the Regency could read those little pocket books with their small typeface.
I really love the 2005 film. It was my first introduction to Jane Austen when I was ten or eleven or so and it was borrowed from a family friend and was never returned it still exists in my parents house and has been a well used DVD. I have only watched the 1995 movie once (and need to rewatch it) but I did find Darcy so cold and characters like Collins done so dirty (why is he sooo old? It's so creepy. I love your defence video of him because yes he has his problems but one of them is not being 30 years older than Lizzie).
Your comment about Nick loving it so much reminds me of a friend of mine from when I was in college who loved to raze me about my love of classics but we don't see each other a lot anymore and I see him and he takes me aside and is like 'you were right' and tells me that his fiancee and him watched Pride and Prejudice. He was just so happy and impressed and needed to talk to someone else who would understand. So I just stood there happily as he talked about how much he loved it.
The 2005 film is just so good!
My favorite reads of this year were Jane Austen at Home, Miss Austen, and The Watsons. The former two were per your recommendations, so thank you very much, those are now new favorite books I'm already planning to reread at some point. Like you, I adored The Watsons and really, really wish Jane Austen had finished it. I'm still working away at her Selected Letters, which are good, just the kind of thing I prefer to read a bit of a day, so that's stretching Jane Austen July into what's left of the summer, for me, which is really nice.
The Watsons is just so good - I wish she'd finished it!
Fianlly catching up with Jane Austen July, and wanted to thank you for your vlogs during the busy release of your 2nd novel!!! I was ony able to read Sense and Sensibility, it was a beautiful re-read.
Thanks so much :)
I read Miss Austen by Gil Hornby after you recommended it and loved it. Thanks!
So glad you enjoyed it!
I did very little for Jane Austen July this year, so onward with Austen August! ;-) I'm currently surrounded by blankies and Kleenex, nursing some sort of feverish, flu-ish something-or-other. I was saving "The Trouble with Mrs. Montgomery Hurst" for a long trip I'm taking, but it has been my constant companion for the past two days and I finished this morning. I laughed, I cried (helps with the sinuses) and marveled at this world you created. No spoilers, but I'll just say that I appreciate the way you illustrate the social mores & customs of the day. I also appreciate how your characters develop and someone the reader might not have had much empathy for changes over the course of the novel. The way you express Miss Elton's inner thoughts (perfect!) was so insightful & I loved her ending--it was so real. (Again--no spoilers!)
As for the Watsons--Jane Austen left behind an unintentional invitation for future writers to finish it. I've not read it yet, but hearing you makes me want to do so, and imagine how YOU might finish it. Perhaps there will be a "written by Jane Austen & Katie Lumsden" collab in the future. Or perhaps it can be a writing challenge starting now and finishing with #JaneAustenJuly2025. 🙂
Hi, and thanks so much! I'm so pleased you enjoyed Montgomery Hurst so much! I so enjoyed writing Felicia Elton, too.
I don't know - it's a tempting thought, to finish off the Watsons or write a direct retelling or something along those lines, but I feel like I just know it'd never be as good as what Jane Austen would have written, you know?
@@katiejlumsden I think if you have a spark of an idea, the fact that Jane Austen didn't finish it is permission enough to try. On the other hand, if there's not an interest, then that's also permission NOT to write something. Liz Gilbert said that "The Signature of All Things" started because she was growing flowers in her backyard and got curious about botany. Some things are the seed of a novel, and some things are a good writing exercise. I think both are valid pursuits. OR it gets set aside and then becomes one storyline that fits into something larger. Having read your latest novel, you have my humble endorsement for being up to the task! 🙂
When Darcy says, "You have bewitched me body and soul" in the 2005 film, it's the first time I've ever thought...golly, the author should have included that line in her book. LOL I adored the 2005 film of P&P. The scenery and filming is SO beautiful!
Haha, that's one of those lines where I feel it's a tad too cheesy for me - but I love the film in general so much!
I didn’t watch the 1995 series but I fully agree with you about the 2005 movie. I thought there’s a modern feel of the characters without straying too much from the book.
I loved rereading Longbourn, listened to and watched Emma, didn’t like and therefore didn’t finish Sanditon, loved The Real Jane Austen and liked Unequal affections. It was a light Jane Austen July for me this year. I had read SS earlier this year, so I suppose that counts too! 😂
The heatwave and the olympics got in the way of getting more reading done but I re-read 'Persuasion' one or two other things and most importantly, I've got some good recommendations which will carry on into August!
If you´re only going to read one Jane Austin book in your life, which one would you recommend?
Read only one? Impossible! 😂
Having said that, for ME, Emma has become the most addictive over time, even more than P and P. No idea why.
@@janetsmith8566 Great ill keep Emma in mind :) thanks for your recommendation.
you’re welcome
I've enjoyed being completely immersed in Jane Austen and her era! I watched 7 adaptations: 2x S&S; P&P 1995; P&P and Zombies - brilliant! 😅; Persuasion; N. A.; Emma.
3 Audiobooks: M. P. ; Emma; Mrs Wickham.
JA novels read: Persuasion; S&S; P&P; The Watsons; Lady Susan; Sanditon.
A Lady's Guide to Scandal; A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting; The Murder of Mr Wickham; The Regency Revolution; Tony Tanner, JA; The Anarchy- and Longbourne!
Very grateful,Katie, for your wonderful recommendations 🎉 I've absolutely loved it!