I have just opened my email inbox to very exciting goodies and I am thrilled to share with the BJ Blog a Jane Austen 2008 Calendar created by Christina. Thank you SO MUCH Christina for sharing your creativity with us all! Personally, I can't wait to print the calendar out and enjoy it for the rest of the year. Print it out on 8 1/2 x 14 paper (legal size).
[Erm, I just need to figure out how to share a PDF file via Blogger. Please bear with me!]
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We are rolling a petition to reprint Nadia Radovici’s 1995 book titled ‘A Youthful Love: Jane Austen & Tom Lefroy?’ that is currently out of print. Please sign for the Radovici's Jane Austen & Tom Lefroy Petition and spread the words! Thanks a lot!
Jane Austen was born on
Cast:
Anne Hathaway - Jane Austen
James McAvoy - Tom Lefroy
Julie Walters - Mrs. Austen
James Cromwell - Revd. George Austen (Jane's father)
Maggie Smith - Lady Gresham
Anna Maxwell Martin - Cassandra Austen
Joe Anderson - Henry Austen
Lucy Cohu - Eliza de Feullide
Laurence Fox - Mr. Wisley
Philip Culhane - George Austen (Jane's brother)
Ian Richardson – Judge Langlois
Leo Bill – John Warren
Jessica Ashworth – Lucy Lefroy
Eleanor Methven – Mrs. Lefroy
Michael James Ford – Mr. Lefroy
Sophie Vavasseur – Jane Lefroy
Helen McCrory – Ann Radcliffe
Julian Jarrold - Director
Graham Broadbent, Robert Bernstein, & Douglas Rae - Producer
Adrian Johnston - Soundtrack
Kevin Hood & Sarah Williams - Screenplay writers
Eigil Bryld - Cinematography
Jane Gibson - Choreography
Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh - Costume
Gail Stevens & Gillian Reynolds - Casting
Jon Spence,
McAvoy knew his portrait of Tom could only come alive with the right Jane, and he found Anne Hathaway almost supernaturally suited for the part. “I don’t think we could have chosen anyone better to play Jane Austen," he says.
Jane Austen’s greatest love story was her own
‘I’m yours, Jane, heart and soul!’
~ Tom Lefroy to Jane Austen, ‘Becoming Jane’
Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection – JA,
Nothing can be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another – JA,
To be so bent on marriage, to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation – is a sort of thing that shocks me.
The film Becoming Jane has given us an image of Jane Austen that liberates our imagination. I envy readers of my book who come to it with Anne Hathaway’s image of Jane in their mind’s eye. You will not have to struggle against the image Cassandra created to see the Jane Austen who was young and pretty, lively and in love. Anne Hathaway’s skilful portrayal of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane shows that art can have as much power to bring us closer to the truth as facts themselves can.
Jon Spence,
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6 comments:
Thank you Christina and Michelle! M, so far I know, there's no feature in Blogger to attach PDF(bugger!), hence you have to convert each page to a jpeg and attach it as a picture. It's up to the readers then, unfortunately, to sew them together again as PDF (which is a very simple thing to do). Go to your Acrobat and save each page as a jpeg.
Dear Icha, I don't see any link for the calendar in your posting. Could you please send me a copy to my yahoo address?
Thanks a lot in advance
Hi Mariana,
I've just arrived from the field, hence I have not been able to post the jpeg format of the calendars on the blog. Bare with us as Michelle or I will post it tomorrow at the latest. They're indeed gorgeous!
icha and Michelle, I am so looking forward to see the calender! :-)
/love from Maria in Sweden
Hi Icha & Michelle,
This is Jim Kwak, using the screen name 'bilbo'. Icha and I exchanged several e-mails after I sent her news of the scheduled U.S. release of the BJ DVD on Feb. 12. I decided posting is the appropriate way to communicate.
The JA calendar sounds great. A suggestion: Would it be possible to e-mail the pdf file to those on your mailing list (including me, of course)?
Hi Jim! Thanks for your first post, though it's not your first communication with me. I will post the jpeg pictures soon, and I hope you can print it out as it is; Christina gave very good resolutions for the pix.
If you still have probs with it, then I shall send the pdf. But try the jpeg first. Oh, and you will love the calendar, for it has two pages of the 2005 PP!
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