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- July 17, 2020

Janeite is a term first popularized by Rudyard Kipling in his short story titled The Janeites and has since been adopted by huge Jane Austen fans as a fond term for themselves.

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Introduction to blog/how to navigate:

- July 17, 2020

I am a huge fan of Jane Austen and wanted an outlet that is where I can post all of the Jane Austen related stuff that I find and/or create. Because there is going to be a large verity of posts I am using labels to make it more navigable, you can chose to see just posts with a specific label by opening the side bar and selecting the one that you would like. These are the different labels: Adaptation Review: my own reactions and opinions of different adaptations that I have seen, (I have watched more than I have reviewed.) Fan Art, while my own artistic skills are severely lacking I love looking at fan art, I will always do my best to give credit to the artist. Memes: just some Jane Austen memes that I saw floating around the internet that I thought were funny and wanted to share. Quote: the title is relatively self explanatory. I will ether edit the words onto a picture I took, take a already existing picture from the internet, or just post a quote without ...

Emma 2020 Review:

- June 23, 2020

I recently got to watch the newest Emma first with my Mom and then with the rest of my family. Set: the sets were beautiful and colorful. Music: the music was fitting and very nice. Dancing: six person and three person stars? are those even a thing? and if Mrs. Elton was opening the ball she would be at the head of all the dancers, not in the middle. Costumes: the costumes where as far as I can tell with my limited knowledge, historically correct. Mrs. Elton's hair was from a little bit later of a time, but I can see her trying to dress in the next big fashion. Character interpretation/casting: Emma Woodhouse: I think it was very well cast. I didn't like how much they exaggerated Emma's rudeness to Jane Fairfax though, in the book Emma does try to make conversation with her at first but retreats when she gets nothing but short reserved answers from Jane. Mr Knightly: When I first heard that they where going to make him "more human" rather than the always self ass...