Post by catecalloway on Mar 13, 2008 19:57:47 GMT -5
Hi! I’m Caralee—
Well, here’s what I probably have in common with everybody:
I’ve read and re-read all the Jane Austen and most of the Georgette Heyer novels many, many (many) times. Then I read them again. And like everybody else here, no doubt, (NO doubt), at this point I can pretty much talk along with most of the movies, at least the older ones. And (of course) I’ve got this season’s Masterpiece Theatre schedule in my Outlook calendar.
Gosh, what else? My cousin Rachel and I visited London a couple years ago and we hunted down every Austen/Heyer location we could think of (Grosvenor Square, Half-Moon Street, etc.). I’ve written a fake Georgette Heyer chapter, of course-- did my best, anyway. And I’ve thought about writing a Jane one.
Um? I’m kind of a beginning sewer and I have no regency clothes at all, but I took loads of historical costume classes in college—in fact, I wound up minoring in theater because of it. I was an English major. And I’m way into dancing. And cooking. And the little daily details that made up historical reality. I like to know how people used to do things and what things used to look like.
I’m hoping to get my cousin Rachel to join, so she might pop up here soon too. She lives in Portland too, and sews.
Anyway, hi!
It randomly occurred to me to search "Jane Austen Portland" the other day and I found you guys. Hooray!
Well, here’s what I probably have in common with everybody:
I’ve read and re-read all the Jane Austen and most of the Georgette Heyer novels many, many (many) times. Then I read them again. And like everybody else here, no doubt, (NO doubt), at this point I can pretty much talk along with most of the movies, at least the older ones. And (of course) I’ve got this season’s Masterpiece Theatre schedule in my Outlook calendar.
Gosh, what else? My cousin Rachel and I visited London a couple years ago and we hunted down every Austen/Heyer location we could think of (Grosvenor Square, Half-Moon Street, etc.). I’ve written a fake Georgette Heyer chapter, of course-- did my best, anyway. And I’ve thought about writing a Jane one.
Um? I’m kind of a beginning sewer and I have no regency clothes at all, but I took loads of historical costume classes in college—in fact, I wound up minoring in theater because of it. I was an English major. And I’m way into dancing. And cooking. And the little daily details that made up historical reality. I like to know how people used to do things and what things used to look like.
I’m hoping to get my cousin Rachel to join, so she might pop up here soon too. She lives in Portland too, and sews.
Anyway, hi!
It randomly occurred to me to search "Jane Austen Portland" the other day and I found you guys. Hooray!
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? ~ Jane Austen 