Lenzi arrived in bronte today and writes in the introduction: Welcome to the bronte conference. This file may be edited by a fairwitness. 1 newresponse item 64 items numbered 1-68 You are a fairwitness in this conference. You have mail. Ok: r Item 1 entered Wed, Jul 9, 1997 (15:42) by Paul Terry Walhus (terry) introductions 1 new of 37 responses total. Topic 1 of 68: 'introductions' Resp 37 of 37: Lenzi (Lenzi) Mon, Dec 13, 1999 (19:19) 3 lines Hello...I've been looking for something like this and have only come across a discussion page which was populated by a massive group of high schoolers looking for help because they hadn't read Jane Eyre for school. Now, after my initial glee in finding this conference, I am wondering how active this site is. It appears there have been no entries for quite a while. I hope it is merely a temporary lull... I am very enthusiastic about the Brontes and have read all I could get my hands on. Until recently I had concentrated on the works of C.& E. and their bios but I have ordered Anne's novels and I'm excited about discovering something of the more forgotten sister. Has anyone read "A Chainless Soul" by Katherine Frank? I'm in the middle of it. She proposes that Emily was anorexic. Although there is a considerable amount of conjecture throughout the book, I felt that she might have something there. I think if it is a truth, it was not the kind of self mutilation arising from low self esteem which plag es some of our young women in this day, but probably sprang from her passionate need for control, esp. when she was placed in situations in which she was away from home, away from her usual liberty. Does anyone have thoughts on this? I'm so glad I found you all!

Until just recently Bront� was going strong through the aid of a diligent Charlotte, as I recall. There will always be lovers of the three ladies who lived such short and sheltered lives on the Yorkshire moors. I will try to enter the conversation if no one else steps forward - there is just so much of me to spread around, and at 116 pounds, that does not spread very far! Hang in there Lenzi...I shall return!

Might this topic be better served in Books or linked to Books Conference?

Sure I'll link this to books.

Well, I got it done on the second try.

Splendid! Now it should attract the Austen and Bront� admirers amongst us! Thanks, Terry!

If we can figure out why they left and how to reattract them.

I'll go rattle some cages in Drool and find out.

Rattle gently.

*whispering* who is austen again? i mean, the name is familiar but why has left my mind (for some reason, all i can think of is julia austin, a local dj *grin*)

Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and a whole bunch other good books on the lives and times she lived in. She was Aunt Jane to a large contingent of family but never married. Probably could not find a Darcy, either *grin*

Terry, I shall - I was Droolian and Firthian before I became aware of life as it really is on The Spring. I shall be most gentle and genteel about my activities there, as always...*smiling diplomatically*

With the activity in our http://www.atlantea.com website, I am really hoping to pump things up here as a stomping ground for poets, writers and aficianados of fine classic works. I am using the success of authoress M J Rose as a starting point for the impending marketing I'll be doing for atlantea.com, she made it on the Amazon charts and got her book accepted by the big publishers purely byh guerilla marketing on the net, http://www.mjrose.com is the url I believe. She even sells a marketing kit. We might take some pointers from her in getting these areas popular.

never heard of her or atlantea, think i'll check it out....

the atlantis graphics are great. the wording and everything makes you want to stay and check it out.

Roger Didio is the guy doing it, and it has some potential for a collaborative Spring - Atlantea project. Roger and I have been on the phone a lot the last few days. He's in NY.

i didn't go through all the links there but is it an interactive book? (that's the feel i get anyway). i think it's a great!

It is interactive, and I need to keep talking with Roger. The tentative plan is at http://www.spring.net/atlantea but I need to scale it down and rework it.

Austen.com is blowing away spring.net in the charts, moving to a solida first place with huge stats.

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I have spoken elsewhere. It is nice that they are so busy....but....!

No buts. It's great news that austen is doing so well. I hope it continues to grow. Maybe we can support it via pledge drive, if not maybe by banner ads and click throughs. Though I want to be careful about this and consider everyones feelings about keeping it pure like it is now.

You're gonna have to convinve me why I need to support austen.com...

Wish I knew why all of this noise about Austen.com is making me feel like a, unwanted child with a conference which deserves better...*sigh* Guess it is my problem, not yours or Ann's. I do as well as I can...with what I have...

You're doing great, and I'll help you move forward with your conference as much as I can, Perhaps you should consider a dedicated domain name and get in Front Page 2000 authoring. It's not a big deal to get started.

I seem to attract people from other conferences (as Drool and Austin, for example) and if I were separate, new readers would not be aware of Geo, would they? Not sure what the advantage of having it as a separate entity. I will be delighted to see your posts there. It is doing ok, but it could certainly stand a man's voice in there from time to time.

What's hot in geo right now?

topic 24 - Beyond Earth (space, stars, planets), topic 27 Geo Archaeology, topic 28 Geo mythology (creation myths from all cultures and religions), topic 4 Gaia, topic 14 Weather (linked to News), just about all of them, actually. Just created two new ones. Geothermal (geysers, etc) and and Geo Mysteries (for the far out from Loch Ness monster to middle earth and crop circles - the far-out of the Geo conference) At any time, the two gem topics get hot (8 for inorganic and 18 for oceanic - pearls / coral, amber, and ivory)

I am always open to suggestions for new topics. Geo's co-creator was gonna create at least one...but...*sigh* Terry's Bioregions has gotten heavy traffic from time to time.

geothermal is hot by definition. Gems are an interesting topic. Post some things in the new pointers topic. I've got geo on the main page. As conversations heat up I'll try and post them to the main page. If I miss somehting point it out to me. Ann is pumping up the pledge drive on austen.com. The spring is really a family of websites. and right now, it looks like austen.com and not spring.net is the leader.

OK...Thanks for that! I will keep you posted, although that cleverly-devised confifty page will give you a good idea of what are the hot discussions (but you would have to web in to see it...) Brava, Ann! She'll do it! She has surmounted much larger obstacles than this.

I can post big long files too, but that is not what I think this is all about. I cannot compete with her on this playing field.

Paul, Thanks so much for your input. The recruiting and curriculum team (Gregory, Adrienne, Ben, Tom and I) will certainly discuss this more, but B&N is very keen on literature courses. Gregory's out of town this week, but maybe we can all sit down next week to discuss your ideas further. Of course, Gregory will determine all of this since he's the big boss man... Thanks, Jan This is a sample of the emails I am getting in support of setting up a Jane Austen University in conjunction with Barnes and Noble. Anyone who is a part of austen.com please get in touch with me, I implore you for your help on this project which could become a milestone for us if it flies. I am going to need all the help I can get on this from our wonderful community of Jane Austen devotees.

See the austen or the nh conference for me details, there's a cross linked topic there for Jane Austen University.

Please check this out. It has such great potential and a very special creative way to use the post-graduate degrees in things Austen we all seem to have earned.

Please get in touch with me if you have any ideas for courses we could run online and tie in with the Spring conferences. This may be the mmost important project the Spring has ever undertaken and is vital for our future growth. Please pass the word around about this. We're looking for courses based on topics in all our conferences and courses around the works of Jane Austen and her novels and adaptations. This will become a growing venture within the Spring with funding going to the community as a whole and the participants in the project. Scale of importance: Extremely high priority, urgent!

Some of the best minds on Spring are in Drool and they do not leave very often and will not see this posting of yours. Please put it on Porch 43 or somewhere in there...if not the linked topic...

Will put it there now.

I hoping for a re-unification and re-dedication of purpose around building the Spring and Austen Universities. I am hoping folks in this community get involved, I'd like to see how many courses we can do and what the titles would be. I've asked Ann if she would mind doing a mock up sample page.