My Solitary Elegance - can Austen come to Austin?

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~terry Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (05:42) seed

I've heard that there is a show coming to the US called "My Solitary Elegance" which has enjoyed a lot of success in England and Scotland and was featured on BBC2. It's going to be performed Oct 2-5th at the Jane Austen Society of North America AGM and the show is looking to fill some dates from the 6th through the 8th. I'm trying to get them to Austin by contacting the local theater groups. iwalsh@waonline.com is the source for this information.

~terry Fri, Jan 15, 1999 (07:54) #1

In the world of Jane Austen novels, people spend days sending notes and dropping in on one another unexpectedly. Imagine what the telephone would have done to this leisurely pace�what it undoubtedly did do when it finally arrived. Cars, airplanes, TV, fax machines...the Internet is just the latest time accelerator, and surely not the last. And each of these developments has been a blessing. When ... Michael Kinsey, Editor of Slate http://www.austen.com is back online thanks to one of our kind and gracious benefactors.