Northanger Abbey and the Floods

The tragedy afflicting Queensland is something that requires every one to support those in need. I object to how the ALP are using that as an excuse to rebrand themselves. I note the Greens are quiet as we see what their policy has wrought. Death and Poverty.

I saw the program Northanger Abbey advertised, and so I set my recorder to record it. I had to cancel another program about WW2, but I was reading Northanger Abbey and I really wanted to see the program. But the ABC want to rebrand the ALP. So they delayed Northanger Abbey by an hour and twenty minutes. Making my recording worthless.

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Northanger Abbey /nôrth'ān-jur, -ang-gur/ was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written about the years 1798–1799. It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £10 to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co., who decided against publishing. In 1817, the bookseller was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum — £10 — that he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was by then the author of four popular novels. The novel was further revised before being brought out posthumously in late December 1817 (1818 given on the title-page), as the first two volumes of a four-volume set with Persuasion.

Northanger Abbey, an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name, premiered on 25 March, 2007 on the United Kingdom channel ITV at 9pm, as part of their Jane Austen Season. The drama ran for 120 minutes (including advert breaks) in the UK, and 93 minutes without interruption in the United States. It marked one of the first leading roles for Felicity Jones, and one of the productions that helped bring JJ Feild into the spotlight. Unusual for a Jane Austen novel, this is only the second filmed adaptation, the first having been made in the 1980s.