pick#PemberLittens my April 'NOW' for #JaneAustenThenAndNow.
6 Movie Adaptations
6 #JaneAdjacent Reads.
Tagged Book is Book 3 of Murder on Location Series. I really enjoy this with it's overall love of Jane Austen. Like the coziness of the location. Mystery always keeps me guessing. Also they're not super long. You can finish in a couple of days. Plan to keep reading over the rest of year. 📖🎩🎞
Happy last day of April to all the #PemberLittens! As we move away from Pride and Prejudice and its adaptations, let us celebrate by remembering one of the all-time great P&P posts. This lives entirely rent-free in my head. I think of this post easily every day. Hopefully now it'll be stuck in your head, too- enjoy! 😭😂 #JaneAustenThenAndNow
so-soI didn't enjoy it as much as the Sense and Sensibility adaptation in the same series, but it was still a fun takeoff on the source material. Here we meet Lizzy trying to solve a murder, and the way the characters are developed in this new world is a lot of fun. Special shout-out to this particular version of Lady Catherine, who was hilariously perfect. The action ebbed and flowed for me somewhat, but I'm still eager to read the next one!
pickA queer retelling of Emma with a Bridgerton flair and solid historical references (Dido Belle, Anne Lister). Ellie is very close to her neighbor Georgiana (who prefers to dress in a masculine style and is known as George). We also look at her cousin Charlotte and how differently she is treated due to her mixed race heritage.
I enjoyed this, the fashions, the depictions of beautiful historical spaces (Vauxhall Gardens and Temple of the Muses).
pickFinished my official 'Now' read, although I read/watched a lot more. (Post to come.) Yes there was a lot of verbatim Pride and Prejudice but overall I found it fun. Particularly loved the additional art work.
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Jane and I spent yesterday making scones and watching all 6 hrs of 1995 Pride and Prejudice. It was wonderful. 🎩
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pickI'm so glad I finally made myself read this one! Not only did I fall for all of the below-stairs personalities, I appreciated the great perspective on what it takes to keep the Bennets sisters in clean petticoats and shoe roses. I loved that we got to see glimpses of Lizzy after her marriage, too, and of course some closure for our heroine Sarah. If you've not read it, #PemberLittens, don't wait as long as I did! #JaneAustenThenAndNow
pickI hadn't watched since it first came out. Had forgotten how good it was.
Favorite things:
Matt Smith as Parson Collins
I want boots and thigh holster for cosplay.
And Lizzy. Such a badass. ⚔️🎩🧟♂️
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#PemberLittens 20th Anniversary showing of Pride and Prejudice definitely called for dressing up. Niece in law Jen and I had the best time. We sighed, we laughed, we clapped.
"You have bewitched me body and soul and I love, I love, I love you." ?
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🎞 1940s P & P. I could let it go that the clothes and hair are all wrong, if they hadn't cut so much of the story. It made Elizabeth and Darcy falling in love come out of nowhere.
It's been a long time since I rewatched the complete Masterpiece Theatre 1980 P & P that introduced teenage me to Jane Austen. I liked Elizabeth! Had forgotten how uptight Darcy was in this one. ⬇️
