It's time to watch PBS Masterpiece Theatre's Complete Jane Austen series! Visit the Masterpiece Theatre web site to watch a sneak preview, download teacher and book group guides, and sign up to win a complete set of Jane Austen's novels. Then, join in the discussion at Remotely Connected as a group of guest bloggers review the films. The program schedule is as follows:

• 13 January ..... Persuasion
• 20 January ..... Northanger Abbey
• 27 January ..... Mansfield Park
• 03 February ..... Miss Austen Regrets
• 10, 17, and 24 February ..... Pride and Prejudice
• 23 March ..... Emma
• 30 March and 6 April ..... Sense and Sensibility

Region 1 DVD Release Dates: Available directly from PBS or from the following vendors: Northanger Abbey: 22 January (Amazon.com , WGBH) Mansfield Park: 29 January (Amazon.com , WGBH) Persuasion: 15 January (Amazon.com); 12 February ( WGBH) Sense and Sensibility: 1 March (WGBH)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Housekeeping: To make room for the news and reviews of Masterpiece Theatre's broadcast of Northanger Abbey, the January-March 2007 articles about the ITV broadcast can now be found in the NA news archives.

Good news for fans of the Wishbone Jane Austen episodes! The award-winning children's television show is being rebroadcast on select PBS stations. Furst Impressions (the Pride and Prejudice episode) has aired several times since Summer 2007. The second season is now being broadcast; we hope to see Pup Fiction (the Northanger Abbey episode) as early as November 2007 in some areas. Check your local PBS listings or enter a ZIP code into the PBS Kids TV Times locator to find out if and when Wishbone will be shown in your area.

Older housekeeping news (look here for information about Crystallised Beauty, the ITV Jane Austen season theme music)

	Northanger Abbey Adaptations Page (last updated 15 February 2008 ) A list of the various Northanger Abbey radio, stage play, and TV/film adaptations, with links to reviews, pictures, cast lists and more. Compiled and reviewed by a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant NA fangirl.
These pages primarily feature the lovely watercolor illustrations by Charles Edmund (“C.E.”) Brock, but include assorted odds and ends relating to the novels as well ... whatever catches my interest and is unlikely to be included on other Austen pages.

	Sense & Sensibility 1908 edition, 24 watercolors			Emma 1909 edition, 24 watercolors
	Pride and Prejudice 1907 edition, 24 watercolors coming soon!			Northanger Abbey 1907 edition, 24 watercolors
	Mansfield Park 1908 edition, 24 watercolors			Persuasion 1909 edition, 24 watercolors

This not-for-profit site was created to provide information in the following areas:

(1) A collection of educational and research resources relating to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's often overlooked and underrated work

(2) For the enjoyment of Austen and Brock fans, my collection of C.E. Brock watercolor illustrations (a complete set for each novel)

I used Pia Frauss' Jane Austen font to create the titles and headings, and the backgrounds are from the Oxford Illustrated editions of Jane Austen's novels.

 

 

Heather Laurence (also known as Heather L) has lived most of her life in Seattle, Washington, leaving only long enough to earn a BA in Classical Studies from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She currently lives in Seattle with her husband and two sons.

When not pretentiously referring to myself in the third person, I take pleasure in a great many things. I've always been an avid reader, but didn't discover Jane Austen until my mid-twenties. Since then I've been making up for lost time. Learn more about me from my blog, but be advised that most of the blog posts are geared toward family and friends.