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Title: Shameless self-promotion
Post by: TheHighPriestess on 11/06/01 at 22:39:27

I finally got around to writing that article about Janeites for the Jane Austen Centre e-zine...actually it turned into more of an essay. Here's the link if anyone cares to read it:

http://www.janeausten.co.uk/magazine/index.html

In the opening paragraph, there's a link called "Who They Are" that will take you to the article, or click on "Point of View" and then "What's in a Janeite?"

Many thanks to Jeannie for sending me the Persuasions article I was looking for, and to Laura Diann for her patience with my writer's block! ::)

Title: Excellent article!
Post by: Wendy_Corner on 11/06/01 at 23:22:54

:D Reminds me of the whole "trekkie" vs "trekker" debate. �I've been looking for the "Janeites" - saw a complete Rudyard Kipling book in B&N last week but I didn't have a moment to look it over.

Title: I can send you a copy if you want
Post by: TheHighPriestess on 11/06/01 at 23:33:13

Come to think of it, I have to send your BJD audiotapes back anyway...I'll slide a copy of "The Janeites" in for you.

My brother is a big Kipling fan and has a book called The Complete Kipling. It did NOT include "The Janeites." I pointed out to him that it was not really all that terribly complete after all, was it? ;)

I actually bought a first edition of Debits and Credits, the book where the story was first published. Actually it first appeared in a magazine, then in the collection. It's a really funky old book, kind of dried out and not in great shape. I think I only paid $10 or something like that for it. It has a little note in front, "To Dad, Merry Xmas, 1929." or something like that. Cool, huh? I love getting old books with people's names and things in them...bought an old copy of a bio of Beau Brummell and it had a little article about Beau Brummell from the NY Review of Books sometime back in the 50's, with the owner's penciled notes. It's like a little time capsule.

Title: Hmmm?
Post by: Wendy_Corner on 11/06/01 at 23:43:41

Do you have a used book store near you? I wish we did - well, actually we do - one of those horrible used romance novel places, UGH! I've been trying to find "Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm" & "A Meeting at Cold Comfort Farm" for ages (out of print) :(

Title: Just your basic Book Swap
Post by: TheHighPriestess on 11/07/01 at 00:04:50

I found it (and most of my cool old books) on www.bookfinder.com. It searches all the databases, and most of the merchants allow you to pay by personal check.

Title: Re: Shameless self-promotion
Post by: Cyberlibrarian on 11/07/01 at 01:34:30

Actually, this reminds me of my own self-promotion. Remember, last summer, when I talked about my review of BJD? Well, the Toronto JASNA chapter liked my review so much that they scrapped their own, and published mine. I was THRILLED! ;D

Title: Re: Shameless self-promotion
Post by: Lydia on 11/07/01 at 16:56:38

Great job! I love your paragraph about JA--I mean, who better to justify a Janeites actions/feelings by than a look at the old girl herself. Makes me proud to be a Janeite. :kay

Title: Re: Shameless self-promotion
Post by: Kaeli on 12/26/01 at 20:58:17

Nice article. I was a little surprised at all of the contreversy in message board posts (or wherever it was that you argued with that guy who told you you weren't a Janeite). If to be a Janeite is to be a fan, then...I don't know, I just think that if you take pleasure in reading Austen's novels, you can be considerend a fan. I don't think there is a bandwagon to jump on in the JA case! That's what sports are for! I consider myself a fan of JA and I don't own any JA merchandise. I enjoy her books, have read a little fan fiction (including what is done of 'The Firstborn', which by the way, I think is very clever and I can't wait until it is finished) and talk with everyone I can about a certain JA book (particularly Pride and Prejudice being that it is the most widely read of all of JA's novels in my little circle of people I talk to, including my mom :). ) Well, I really don't have much else to say, so I'll stop babbling!

Title: Hi Kaeli!
Post by: TheHighPriestess on 01/02/02 at 17:36:19

Thank you for the kind comments!

The discussion I mentioned actually took place on the Hornblower boards at A&E--the fellow was doing some minor-league trolling and I tried to deflate him a bit...I guess he was trying to do the same to me, but it didn't really work.

You'd think that a JA fan is a JA fan, wouldn't you? But it's not the case. I have first-hand experience at JASNA meetings where I was treated with suspicion, I think because I was younger (and I look younger than I am). There was an assumption--I could tell from the things people said to me--that I was only a Colin Firth fan or something, not a "real" Jane Austen fan. Then I blew them all away in JA trivia and the attitude changed real fast. ;)

Not that there's anything wrong with being a Colin Firth fan, btw (I am, very much so, and absolutely adore P&P2). But there is definitely an attitude by some Janeites that some of the more recent fans, who perhaps were drawn to the books from the movies, don't "get it" on some level. I read the books first, but I probably became obsessive because of the movies. I don't mind admitting that. Everything feeds everything else, you know? My Hornblower obsession feeds my Jane Austen obsession, and vice versa. The snobbery irritates me. I'm surprised my essay wasn't more of a rant...when Laura asked me to write it, I kind of half-expected it to be a rant, and was rather pleasantly surprised when it turned out not to be!

Anyway, welcome to Molland's!

~Mags 8-}

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