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Persuasion
\"When they were very young, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were in love. They did not marry, but Anne never forgot her love for him. Now, many years later, they meet again. Does Wentworth feel anything for Anne, or is he only interested in her pretty young friends?\"--Back cover.
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War at a distance
What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Distance considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms. Looking back over two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and describes how global military operations affected the British populace, as the nation's army and navy waged battles far from home for decades. She reveals that the literature and art produced in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means for feeling as much as understanding such wars, and established forms still relevant today.
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Traffic-stopped nursery grows on
Owner Anne Elliot said: \"We are very much a family-run nursery and we don't intend to keep up with the competition by turning into a garden centre. We have our regular customers and once work to the A2 is finished we'll be getting noticed.\"
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TELEVISION GUIDE - Sunday June 8
This two-parter focuses on events that led to the Aboriginal Land Rights movement and confrontations in Canberra in 1972. It opens with the 1938 celebrations of 150 years of European colonisation. But the Aborigines aren't celebrating they declare a day of mourning. Curtis Taylor is determined to make it big - all he needs is the right talent and the right angle. He finds what he is looking for in The Dreamettes. Dreamgirls' cast is uniformly strong and Effie is the role of a lifetime for [Jennifer Hudson]. But with the exception of her searing rendition of And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going, the musical is a bit light on showstoppers. In this episode, Jemaine's exgirlfriend [Sally Hawkins] is back on the scene and both Jemaine and Bret try to win her affection. In the process, the folk duo make her gifts, including a painting and a glass butterfly.
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The Guide: Exhibitions: Art With Strangers, Leigh
The myth of the lone artist, the maverick individualist, is still a rather persuasive one. Yet, increasingly, artists are collaborating or getting technicians to do the dirty work, or - as here - using utter strangers as willing or unwilling participants.
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly review -- have we got Austen all wrong?
Have we been getting Jane Austen wrong for all these years? Helena Kelly thinks so. She sets out to show us how Austen's novels have been \"so thoroughly, so almost universally, misunderstood\". They have been accepted as safe, escapist, conservative. To many they have apparently offered \"a blissful, almost drugged-up break from reality\". But Kelly will pierce the \"haze of preconceptions\" obscuring Austen's fiction. She will show us that, far from giving us \"demure dramas in drawing rooms\", Austen used her novels to \"examine the great issues of her day\". She will teach us to \"read Jane's novels ... as she intended\". This book's discoveries can be divertingly unlikely. When Catherine Morland excitedly unfastens a locked cabinet in Northanger Abbey, Kelly finds something more than a delicious parody of gothic convention. \"Let's not mince words here. With all its folds and cavities, the key, the fingers, the fluttering and trembling, this looks a lot like a thinly veiled description of female masturbation.\" She certainly has the courage of her hunches. She decides that Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility is probably the biological father of the young woman Willoughby has seduced. She bizarrely supposes that, in [Emma], [Harriet Smith] and Jane Fairfax \"may well be half-sisters\", using as evidence the fact that Jane's aunt \"Miss Bates twice refers to her mother calling her Hetty, which can be short for Harriet\". Except, of course, that it is Miss Bates who is called \"Hetty\", not her mother.
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Lost film scores rewrite history of the silent era
\"His response was that there's a lot of European material here that didn't make it to the States, because they had so much material they didn't need to buy from European stuff. \"A real source of interest is not only do we have the scores but the instrumental parts as well. Other collections seem to have the score but not the instrumental parts - that's a source of considerable interest.\" Ms [Anne Elliot] also explained how it was possible the hidden archive had remained undiscovered for decades. She said: \"Once we're in the new building one way we're hoping to use them is to lend them to selected people for the use they were originally intended for - to go with silent films.\"
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TV land: We need no persuading ; in the pipeline
Meanwhile Nighty Night star Julia Davis will play [Anne Elliot]'s rather glam sister Elizabeth - and Buffy fave Anthony Head pops up as the girls vain, pompous and debtridden father...
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Chasms open in family search of past and present
In Persuasion you need to know that Anne Elliot was some years before prevented from marrying Captain Wentworth, but you are told that at the beginning; the events of the novel happen in their own now, after those years have passed. Which has to be a secret, otherwise there would be no suspense, since there isn't much action other than looking for this dark and terrible secret which has been locked in the family's bosom for ages and which a current protagonist cannot rest without discovering.
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The pain of regret becomes soppy romance but it's pretty
Last night's latest version, the third in a [Jane Austen] season, was a vehicle for rising British star Sally Hawkins, whose performance certainly showed why she's an up-and-comer. It's not easy being a heroine consumed with disappointment without coming across as a fearful old mope. [Anne Elliot]'s famous speech comparing men's and women's constancy in love in the novel, key to the happy conclusion, was clumsily shifted to an earlier stage in the action. The support cast usually have a heyday in adaptations of Austen, with her extraordinary talent for satire and social observation. Anthony Head completely stole the show as Anne's vain and pompous father, Baronet Walter Elliot, a man who finds no countenance as pleasing as his own. The bum note was struck by Anne's ghastly sister, Mary, whom actress Amanda Hale played like a caricature from Absolutely Fabulous.
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