The following are among the links we’ve received from Kerri Spennicchia the past few weeks:
• “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: Six Things You Never Knew” (Anna Moeslein, Glamour.com)
• “Written in Threads”: Austen-inspired dresses at Belsay Hall (Nicole Robo)
• “Seven Jane Austen-Inspired Items You Can Wear without Looking Crazy” (Candace Bryan, Styleite.com)
• “Fear of Jane Austen” (Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker)
• “Jane, Plain No More: A Year of Austen Glamour” (Mary Jo Murphy and Jennifer Schluessler, The New York Times—includes an Austen-related quiz)
• Longbourn by Jo Baker, review by Holly Kyte, The Telegraph
• “How BBC Executives Initially Rejected Colin Firth for the Role of Mr. Darcy” (Simon Cable, The Daily Mail)
• “Sansoucie Wins Honor in Jane Austen Essay Contest” (Missourian.com):
Finally, also from Kerri, a YouTube link she purloined from the Jane Austen Centre’s summer newsletter. It’s a recap of Emma Thompson’s 1995 acceptance speech at the Golden Globe awards, for her Sense and Sensibility screenplay.
