Noticias de Jane Austen - Número 82
¿Cuáles son las noticias de Jane Austen esta semana?
¿Podrías interpretar a Jane en Austen the Musical?
Emocionantes noticias si te encanta el teatro musical, tienes pasión por la interpretación y siempre has querido ser Jane Austen. Los productores Daniel Taylor-Brown y Justin Eade han anunciado que están buscando una actriz para interpretar a Jane Austen en la gira británica de Austen el Musical. Austen el Musical explora la lucha de Jane para que su trabajo se publique en un entorno dominado por los hombres, sus romances y su voto de rechazar el estilo de vida de una mujer en la Inglaterra georgiana. Después de carreras prolongadas en el Festival Fringe de Edimburgo y actuaciones con entradas agotadas en el Festival Jane Austen y el Festival Musical New York, el nuevo musical de Rob Winlow se dirige a todo el país en su gira por el Reino Unido 2017/18 a partir de octubre de 2017, solo que actualmente ¡primera actriz! Entonces, ¿interesada en interpretar a Jane Austen entre los 20 y los 41 años? Pensamos que algunos de ustedes entre nuestros lectores de Jane Austen News podrían serlo. Para postularse, los productores están pidiendo un CV, foto en la cabeza, carta de presentación y detalles de su rango vocal para ser enviados a info@austenthemusical.com. Puede encontrar más información en el listado aquí en artsjobs.org.uk.Conoce a los superfans de Jane Austen
En Jane Austen News nos encanta leer sobre otros fans de Austen, así que disfrutamos mucho averiguando un poco más sobre estos superfans de Jane Austen como se muestra en un artículo de la guardián esta semana: Roland Anderson, 44, director financiero, Londres: "No fue hasta que cumplí los 20 que empecé a entrar en Austen. Mi amigo Mark siguió hablando de Orgullo y prejuicio, así que lo releí, luego me abrí camino a través del resto de las novelas, además de todo lo que pude conseguir: las cartas, las novelas sin terminar. Una vez leí un novio Orgullo y prejuicio como un cuento antes de dormir. No lleva tanto tiempo como crees: 20 noches en dos o tres capítulos por noche. Realmente le gustó, incluso si la relación no duró ". Nili Olay, 72, y Jerry Vetowich, 80, miembros de la Jane Austen Society of North America: Jerry: "Admito que me encantan los disfraces. Tengo cuatro disfraces, incluido un casaca roja y un almirante, y Nili tiene varios vestidos. Se ven bastante auténticos. Por supuesto, no nos vestimos como los habituales". reuniones, sólo las pelotas, pero es genial ver a la gente en sus mejores galas ". Mira Magdo, 31, bloguera, Cambridge: "Hace cuatro años, me mudé a Inglaterra para estar cerca de Jane. Suena extraño pero es cierto. Cada año, hay un gran festival en Bath. Un año, estuve allí y Adrian Lukis, que interpretó a Wickham en la versión de la BBC, estaba allí también, y tuve la idea de tratar de conocer a todos los miembros importantes del elenco ". ¿Eres un superfan de Austen en este nivel? Tenemos que decir que fue genial ver a tantos de estos fans visitándonos en Bath para la sesión de fotos. El artículo completo se puede leer aquí.Pros y contras de la desviación de P&P
Ha habido bastante preocupación (pero también emoción) por la noticia de que una nueva adaptación televisiva de Orgullo y prejuicio es en las cartas para 2020: una nueva adaptación que, según el escritor de la producción, mostrará 'el lado más oscuro' del libro de Austen. Con esta preocupación por la integridad del libro fresca en la mente de los fanáticos de Austen, En verdad La revista publicó un artículo muy bienvenido esta semana recordándonos que no todas las desviaciones son malas. Algunas de las desviaciones positivas del libro incluyen la propuesta empapada por la lluvia de Darcy en el 2005 PÁGINAS película, la escena de la bañera del Sr. Darcy en la miniserie de 1995 y, naturalmente, la escena de la camisa mojada del Sr. Darcy de la misma miniserie. Sin embargo, también se nos recordaron algunos cambios menos bienvenidos. Algunos de estos eran de la versión cinematográfica de 1940 de Orgullo y prejuicio. Por ejemplo: los disfraces tremendamente inexactos, la carrera de caballos y carruajes entre los Bennet y los Lucases, y la amable y comprensiva Lady Catherine. Leemos el artículo, recordamos las versiones que habíamos elegido olvidar, y recordamos que todo estaría bien al final, porque después de todo, si la nueva producción de Orgullo y prejuicio es menos que favorable, ¡siempre tendremos las actuaciones estelares de Colin Firth y Jennifer Ehle a las que recurrir!¿Conoce el lado menopáusico de Jane Austen?
Nos encontramos con un artículo de la periodista Frances Wilson esta semana que nos sorprendió un poco. Su artículo se centró en la falta de literatura que explore a las mujeres menopáusicas: mujeres "atrapadas en medio de sus propios años imprudentes, ardiendo, secándose, obsesionadas con la muerte y preguntándose si alguna vez desearán o volverán a ser deseadas". . Wilson sostiene que hay muchas novelas y discusiones en la vida cotidiana sobre las crisis de la mediana edad de los hombres, pero el equivalente femenino en el último tabú. Todo no esta perdido. Jane Austen es una autora que, dijo Wilson, escribe sobre mujeres menopáusicas.Mire a la Sra. Bennet en Orgullo y prejuicio, encerrada en su alta ansiedad y falta de propósito, Lady Bertram en Mansfield Park, desmayado en el sofá por razones inexplicables ... ... Jane Austen, que murió a los 42 años, puede haber sido a través de la menopausia misma (a menudo ocurre antes en las mujeres sin hijos) y Mansfield Park, más oscura, más enojada y menos indulgente que sus otras obras, se lee como ese unicornio ficticio, una novela menopáusica.Eso nos hizo pensar en Jane Austen News: fue parque Mansfield ¿Realmente una novela sobre la menopausia como dice este artículo? Después de considerarlo un poco, no nos convenció, pero nos gusta El argumento de Wilson que sería bueno ver más personajes femeninos de la época de la menopausia en las novelas y que, actualmente, hay un poco de falta.
Éxito para estudiantes que aprendieron inglés de Austen
Horem Gul, una adolescente que llegó a Nottingham procedente de Pakistán hace un año, aprendió inglés de la manera que posiblemente haya disfrutado más con nosotros. Ella, su madre y su hermana menor vinieron a Inglaterra para reunirse con su padre, que ha estado trabajando en el Reino Unido durante los últimos diez años. La familia vino con muy poco inglés. Felizmente, Jane Austen (y Colin Firth) estuvieron felices de ayudar ... "Nos reunimos todos hace aproximadamente un año. Vimos muchas películas que nos ayudaron a adaptarnos y aprendí mi inglés de películas como Orgullo y prejuicio! "Desde entonces, Horem ha obtenido resultados fantásticos en los exámenes a pesar de la novedad del idioma. ¡Logró dos niveles A y tres B de grado A! Un gran ejemplo de cómo Austen está inspirando a las mujeres a lograr grandes cosas en sus vidas incluso todos estos años después de su muerte. .Noticias de Jane Austenes nuestra recopilación semanal de historias sobre Jane Austen o relacionadas con ella. Aquí presentaremos una variedad de elementos, incluidos tutoriales de manualidades, reseñas, noticias, artículos y fotos de todo el mundo. Si desea incluir su historia, por favorContáctenoscon un comunicado de prensa o resumen, junto con un enlace. Tú también puedesenviar artículos únicospara publicación en nuestroRevista en línea Jane Austen. No se pierda nuestras últimas noticias:conviértete en miembro de Jane Austeny reciba un resumen de historias, artículos y noticias cada semana. También podrá acceder a nuestra revista en línea con más de 1000 artículos, probar sus conocimientos con nuestro cuestionario semanal y obtener ofertas en nuestra tienda de regalos en línea. Además, los nuevos miembros obtienen un cupón exclusivo del 10% de descuento para usar en la tienda de regalos en línea.
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I wrote Mrs. Bennet’s Sentiments with copyright in 2010. I had submitted a rough draft to Deb W in 2009 at Source Books. She got back to me in 24 hrs! She wanted to pitch it. A week later she couldn’t get the full editorial board to give it the green light as they do more romantic spin-offs… Darcy etc… and this is “Hen Lit” But she strongly encouraged me to continue. Then I attended a writer’s conference and met with many editors agents etc..2011. I saw that Ms. King’s book I think came out in 2013..but I didn’t read it. Was thinking oh Dang I tipped my hand… After many rounds with agents etc. . I formally published it in time for Mother’s Day 2016. I read Gilbert’s Big Magic and realize those inspiration sprites are everywhere.Maybe great minds think a like. I saw Mrs. Bennet Has Her Say but it was very dissimilar, focused on her as a young woman I think. Only read a few pages in. Will check out King’s book. Right now in pre- production for a big show about Matisse( I run a theatre)
Anonymous
A member of the Jane Austen Society Kent Branch, a few years back, wrote a P&P variation called Mrs Bennet’s Menopause, so Lucy Kate King was on to this years ago! It’s available on kindle if you’re interested :)
Anonymous
For a feisty take on Mrs Bennet. see Mrs. Bennet’s Sentiments. Was the top fiction pick by People Magazine this past November . JANE AUSTEN’S MOTHER TELLS ALL
Jane Austen’s Mrs. Bennet, mother of five difficult teenage daughters is silent no more. Those who grew up enjoying Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will delight in Mrs. Bennet’s Sentiments. Tired of having her ungrateful girls roll their eyes at her and watching her husband retreat to his man cave, Mrs. Bennet finally tells her side of the story.“ Mrs. Bennet surprises them all. She defies the conventions of the day…
I loved this recent article by Dunphy… She really gets it.proving the old adage ‘Mother knows best.’ ”
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SENT TO ME BY MY READERS. TOTAL VINDICATION OF MY PORTRAYAL OF MRS. BENNET
IN MRS BENNET’S SENTIMENTS : PRIDE PREJUDICE AND PERSEVERANCE
JANE AUSTEN’S MOST WIDELY MOCKED CHARACTER IS ALSO HER MOST SUBVERSIVE
IN DEFENSE OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’S MRS. BENNET
July 18, 2017 By Rachel Dunphy
Of all the delightful idiots filling the pages of our well-worn copies of Pride and Prejudice(hint: this is everyone except maybe Charlotte), one of the best is also one of the most overlooked—even by Jane Austen, who never grants her a first name. Mrs. Bennet, mother to the five Bennet sisters and incorrigible social gadfly, is largely dismissed by both the book’s readers and its facetious narrator, but she is perhaps the most radical character in the novel.
She tends to be read at face value—flighty, talkative, too often drunk, and too obsessed with marrying off each of her daughters. The clever jokes her husband makes at her expense go right over her head, much to his amusement and her elder daughters’ disappointment. But the willful disregard Mrs. Bennet shows to the sensibility and decorum most of her compatriots value so highly is not her weakness but in fact her greatest strength.
The woman has one abiding goal through the novel: to see all her daughters married and thus financially secure. An entail demands that none of her five children, all girls, may inherit their father’s estate, and thus they will have no permanent home or source of income unless they find it in wealthy men. Through the homogenizing fog of history, her obsession sometimes feels ridiculous—but when the options are marriage or destitution, and when you live in the countryside where well-bred men are scarce, and when at least two of your daughters are already past prime marriageable age, panic is understandable. Love is lovely, but Mrs. Bennet’s mission is about survival.
Unlike the rest of the family, prattling about feelings and manners and values and wit (yes, I mean you, Lizzie), she takes the plight of her children seriously, and she works tirelessly to ensure their futures. She schemes endless scenarios to endear her daughters to men of means, at one point orchestrating Jane’s prolonged illness (and thus residence) at Mr. Bingley’s Netherfield estate, at another attempting to force Elizabeth into an unhappy marriage with her cousin Mr. Collins, and at every chance throwing Lydia and Kitty toward an endless parade of military officers. Not all of her efforts are successful, to be sure, but marriage is a numbers game, and the Bennet matriarch is the sole, the necessary pragmatist in a house filled with idle dreamers.
“Love is lovely, but Mrs. Bennet’s mission is about survival.”
Remarkably, even as she shoulders the burden of her family’s future alone, Mrs. Bennet rails against the confines of the misogynistic society she inhabits. When she exclaims angrily, repeatedly, unceasingly about her daughters’ inability to inherit property—“the hardest thing in the world,” she calls it—our heroines, Jane and Lizzie, exhaustedly explain the logic of the sexist concept yet again. “They had often attempted to do it before, but it was a subject on which Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favor of a man whom nobody cared anything about.” How silly was this mother of theirs, who couldn’t understand the simple, obvious absurdity of a woman inheriting a house.
Jane and Lizzie are far from oblivious to their perilous situation. They know they must marry before they are forcibly removed from their ancestral home by the combined powers of tradition and the aforementioned aggressively dull male cousin. They know that, in their early twenties, their eligible years are coming to a close. But they neither rebel against the injustice nor actively seek to nullify it. Neither is bitter about the entail; it is an unavoidable consequence of fate. And neither takes an active role in husband hunting, instead preferring to stumble lazily—and in Lizzie’s case quite resistantly—into blissful marriages with wealthy best friends (Congrats! Glad it all worked out). When Elizabeth’s longtime friend Charlotte marries the rejected Mr. Collins, Lizzie is embittered to see the slightly older woman compromise her standards for security—but the matter of Charlotte’s inheriting her home and all its worth is a non-issue. Her mother sees it differently and bitterly condemns Collins and Charlotte at every opportunity, even years after their marriage. There is nothing she can do to change the legal status of herself or her daughters, but still she refuses to accept it, and she will not be quiet about the injustice of it even while those who it affects most consider the matter settled and have found superior situations. Mrs. Bennet is revolutionary in her simple and abiding refusal to shut up, even as those for whom she chiefly advocates desperately wish for her do so.
While working within a system she openly acknowledges to be against her, Mrs. Bennet acts freely and without restraint. She speaks her mind regardless of whether it is time for her to speak, and she voices her opinion regardless of whether it is the popular one—“What is Mr. Darcy to me, pray, that I should be afraid of him?” she asks in response to another of Lizzie’s scoldings, “I am sure we owe him no such particular civility as to be obliged to say nothing he may not like to hear.” It’s a trait she passes on to her favorite and youngest daughter, Lydia, and the two make a regular habit of interrupting and interjecting in conversations with their social betters. Mrs. Bennet isn’t afraid of mistakes, frequently acting with what is judged as too much liberty but never once embarrassed or apologetic for it. And that is remarkable given how highly reputation is valued in her world and how little it takes to destroy one.
Let us not forget that the dramatic height of the novel revolves around the horrific realization that Lydia, the youngest and silliest Bennett sister, may have pre-marital sex—and that if she does, the entire family will be destitute. Of course it is not Austen as much as the period in which she wrote that is the problem here. Fifteen years old, Lydia is only saved from assured ruin through the help of a rich male benefactor, Mr. Darcy. He acts not from any sense of morality or charity—he at first finds a possible association with Lydia so despicable as to prevent him proposing to her sister—but out of love for another, better-behaved woman and the need to protect his own reputation by association.
After her marriage, Lydia is all but ostracized by her father and her sisters simply because she has the audacity not to be ashamed. Mr. Bennet, who sent the notoriously flirtatious Lydia to spend poorly supervised months with a bunch of soldiers in the first place, is content to publicly cut ties with his daughter and her husband solely out of spite. Her actions seem to be equally condemned by Austen—she and Mr. Wickham are acknowledged as a point of fact to be unhappy and unstable long term. Though Lizzie and Jane advocate for Lydia, arguing the disavowal would only hurt the family more, it is largely for the sake of their mother, who persists in loving Lydia, who (silly woman) is proud of her daughter, that she is allowed to return home at all.
“Lizzie is an excellent woman of her era, but she lives within the boundaries of her place in society and doesn’t expect more for herself or from others.”Lydia is oblivious and vain, obviously, but the small, selfish idiocies of teenagers are deserving of light mockery and forgiveness, not permanent condemnation. The youngest Bennet daughter’s girlish ridiculousness is timeless, but her mother’s decision not to ostracize her for her sexual misconduct—or even to acknowledge it as such—is quintessentially modern. It is a path few other Austen parents take.
That refusal to blame is not just kind but revolutionary. While the rest of her relations are prepared to mercifully tolerate Lydia’s marriage, her mother won’t do anything short of delight in it. As the first rule of polite society is never to insult someone to their face, the family has little choice but to publicly endorse her felicity. Despite Elizabeth’s private disgust that even after nearly destroying her future “Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy and fearless,” she refrains from demeaning their behavior. She goes so far as to make peace with Wickham, who she worthily hates, solely to avoid any hint of a straightforward confrontation within the family. Because Lizzie at her core is absolutely traditional, as are her values and her limitations. She speaks in subtleties designed to amuse her allies and confuse her targets, not to openly challenge. She is embarrassed by the shabbiness and flightiness of her relations and fears her association with them diminishes her worth. “Had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening,” she thinks to herself during the Netherfield ball, “it would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit or finer success.”
Lizzie is an excellent woman of her era, but she lives within the boundaries of her place in society and doesn’t expect more for herself or from others. She succeeds in forging her path to happiness and prosperity, but it is a personal victory only, one that reinforces the oppressive system that she accepts without question.
The victories of her mother and sister are of a much more significant character. Though both behave in a way that is unacceptable according to the standards of their society, by simply refusing to care or notice these transgressions, they force those who do to go to extraordinary lengths to accommodate them. As much out of self-preservation as out of love, Lydia’s older sisters and their husbands spend the rest of their lives supporting her both financially and socially, frequently sending her money and hosting her in their mansions. Lydia has little regard for her own respectability, but as her status reflects on theirs, Jane and Lizzie must provide her with some of their own, and so Lydia continues to do exactly as she wants without ever sacrificing the comforts or pleasures she might have otherwise found.This youngest daughter is thus Mrs. Bennet’s true heir, doing always what she wants over what she should, and using shame as a tool rather than allowing it to control or diminish herself. It is a bold, a risky path that can only be trod by those with the bravery and confidence to believe themselves worthy without validation, to demand what they want from life rather than accepting every injustice as fate. These are values Lydia learned from her mother, values she will teach to her daughters, and it is their legacy, their radical impropriety, that shapes the future.
Anonymous
@ladylou – Hear, hear! I had a partial hysterectomy at age 46 after years of once-a-month debilitating pain and the other various unpleasantness that accompanied it. I felt reborn afterward, certainly not as if I had a “permanently closer companionship with death.”
Anonymous
I wonder if I’m the only one who considers the appended statement absolute nonsense? I don’t read much in the way of “women’s literature” and I’m glad I don’t. Nobody ever told me that I was drying up, or wearing an invisibility cloak as Wilson says in her article; no one ever told me that I’d automatically get old, cross a Rubicon, or have “a deep sense of change within.” I never feel that “I have a permanently closer companionship with death”. Thanks to my ignorance, I’ve remained as vital and visible as ever, grateful for the near disappearance of migraine headaches and that awful black mood that descended on me once a month for days at a time.
“caught in the midst of their own reckless years, burning-up, drying-out, death-obsessed and wondering whether they will ever desire, or be desired again”.Anonymous
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