They’re back!
Last May, BBC Radio 4 re-aired a radio play of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, in celebration of the novel’s 200th birthday. The cast included David Tennant as Tom, Benedict Cumberbatch as Edmund, and Felicity Jones as Fanny Price.
And now you can have a copy of your very own 🙂
Amazon UK has the CD in stock, while Amazon.com has a US release date of March 1. Can’t wait on the American side of the Pond? Audible also has it as a digital download, available now.
“Berry-bearing.”
February 9, 1849: New Roman Republic established.
February 10, 1840: Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
February 11, 1808: Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
February 12, 1816: The oldest working opera house in Europe, the Teatro di San Carlo, is destroyed by fire.
February 13, 1867: Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’ primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
February 14, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.
February 15, 1804: The Serbian Revolution begins.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/ralph-waldo-emerson
“The pillory, usually made of Norway fir.”
February 2, 1812: Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California.
February 3, 1783: Spain recognizes United States independence.
February 4, 1794: The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
February 5, 1810: The siege of Cadiz begins.
February 6, 1819: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
February 7, 1856: The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation anywhere in the world providing for elections by secret ballot.
February 8, 1693: The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by William III and Mary II.
Our Favorite this week is a celebration! Eighty years ago Georgette Heyer published her first Regency romance novel, and The Beau Monde is commemorating the anniversary with a series of articles. Pieces for Regency Buck (written by Alina K. Field) and An Infamous Army (by Shannon Donnelly) are already posted, with more to come throughout the year for each of Heyer’s Regency romances and some of her non-Regency historicals. Check them out and sigh over your favorites, find new-to-you gems to read…or remind yourself which titles are already on your TBR list 😉
Okay fellow readers, we’re one month in–have you been a tortoise or a hare?
I seem to have averaged the two. I didn’t do any reading at all over the holidays, and that lag lasted a couple of weeks into the new year (hangover from spending all that time with the family 😉 ). I also made a point to finish a series of new-to-me books I’d started because the first one was so good (the Daughters of Erin series by Laurel McKee, in case you were wondering).
But then I completed a whole book from the old TBR mountain in one day. I also recently started two others that are more historical fiction + romance than just historical romance–the writing style is different, the story is a bit more densely packed, and the cast of characters is larger. These are going to take some time for me to get through, but they’ve both been waiting a couple of years, so the least I can do is give them a thorough read 🙂
How has your reading month been?
“A nocturnal spirit; a hag.”
January 26, 1788: The British First Fleet sails into Port Jackson to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement in Australia.
January 27, 1785: The University of Georgia is founded, becoming the first public university in the US.
January 28, 1813: Pride and Prejudice is first published in the UK.
January 29, 1856: Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
January 30, 1826: The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to north coast of Wales is opened.
January 31, 1747: The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
February 1, 1793: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Cora Lee, Regency Romance Author 