The Secret Dreamworld of a Jane Austen Fan

Bright Star… the movie that came out last year, based on the three-year romance between the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
I saw the trailer for this film for the first time some months ago, and my interest was caught immediately, first of all by the costumes. Regency costumes! Apart from the Jane Austen adaptations [...]

I ran into this on another Jane Austen blog, thought it was pretty funny. And very well made!

When I lived in England for half a year I got to see the 2008 version of Sense & Sensibility when it was first aired on television. And since then I haven’t seen it again, not until a few days ago that is. Not because I didn’t like it, I did, but because I didn’t [...]

I wrote about Lark Rise to Candleford before, this summer when we had just finished watching season one of this series. We all loved it, and for a long time I have impatiently been waiting for the opportunity to see season two. And finally that opportunity came!

I was delighted when I found out that this [...]

The reason I haven’t written anything about the Dickens adaptations we bough a little while back is because I haven’t yet seen many of them. But one of them we’ve just finished watching. The six hour long The Pickwick Papers.

I’ve never seen a screen adaptation of this book before, but I have read the book. [...]

I just came across this, and it was so funny that I had to share it!
There is a part of me that thinks it is very disrespectful to the book (Pride and Prejudice) and the characters. But it was really funny! It does have one “bad” word in it though, just so you know. [...]

Sometimes going shopping with grandmother can be a very exciting and fun (and profitable) adventure!
We went into town today in order to get some fabric for a skirt I am helping her with, and we passed this new shop that I’ve never seen before (it looked very temporary so I doubt it will be there [...]

Elizabeth over at Rapunzel’s Resource is right now doing a week with tutorials based on six different hairstyles from Miramax’s Emma. I think this is a lovely idea, and I’m glad that she is doing this, since I personally think it can be hard to come up with different Regency styles that I can use. [...]

One of my all-time absolute favourite movies is Little Women (the one from 1994)! I remember the first time I saw it, it was many years ago and my mother had rented it from the video rental store. I hardly spoke any English at the time, and even though it had subtitles I didn’t understand [...]

My poor blog, it has been shamefully neglected of late! I am quite ashamed of myself! And I know this sounds like a very lame excuse, but I have actually been rather busy…
At the moment I’m up to my ears in sewing. Nothing as exciting as historical clothes or anything like that; right now I [...]