Every once in a while something happens in my day-to-day life – or someone tells me a story about an incident in his or hers – that makes me think about how we develop and maintain friendships. That happened again this past week when I got an email from an old friend. In our modern …
I’ve been learning some surprising things from rewriting scenes from Pride & Prejudice from a different point of view for the P&P200 project, where a group of us are following the course of Pride & Prejudice in real time exactly 200 years after the events of the book. Here’s one example of something I see …
When I was a kid, I had a fascination with Tyco Toys/Mattel’s Magic 8-Ball. The anticipation as I waited for the answer to reveal itself in that murky blue fluid left me breathless – it was just so cool and mysterious. When my son was given one as a gift a few years back, I’m …
“There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” ~ Charlotte Lucas, Pride & Prejudice Charlotte may have been speaking of courtship in the quote above — Jane Bennet’s and Mr. Bingley’s in particular — but she could almost be talking about writers as well, as there …
Some years ago a group of Austen fanfiction writers and readers who really ought to remain anonymous gathered in upstate New York at Heather Lynn Rigaud’s house. It was about this time of year, and between watching all the adaptations of Pride & Prejudice, significant silliness occurred. Without further ado, allow me to introduce you …
What do Shakespeare’s Mercutio and Austen’s Lady Catherine have in common? To me, both are secondary characters who, while they’re onstage or on the page, tend to steal the show. They’re both so compelling that I find myself looking forward to their next lines. And, when their respective stories are being performed in the theater …
by Abigail Reynolds Picture: Jane Odiwe, Abigail Reynolds, and Monica Fairview in Regents Park How lucky can a girl get? Last week I unexpectedly found myself with several days to kill in London and Bath, and almost no plans. It was a little strange, I grant you, to have no idea what I was going …
A few days ago I received one of those notorious “edit memos.” That’s when an editor tells the writer everything that’s wrong with her books, sometimes with useful suggestions about what might fix these problems, sometimes with rather vague instructions like, “Tighten it up” or “You need to make this the best book you’ve ever …
I fell in love with Mr. Darcy for the first time when I was a 14-year-old high school freshman. We were assigned Pride and Prejudice in English class, and there was a cute but pesky boy sitting near me. Up until then, I’d kinda had a crush on the boy (even though I knew he …
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