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 After another continental breakfast and registration we had 2 more speakers.

Devoney Looser told us about Jane and all the plays and movies and TV shows that have used her works. Some of them were never made for various reasons, but I would have loved to see the one that was talked about -  a musical Pride and Prejudice with Judy Garland and the lead!!  Devoney is doing research in the Huntington Library right now because it has copious amounts of material on this subject.  She is always very informative and lots of fun.

Kristi Brown-Montesano is a musicologist.  Her talk was about how the music of the time was and was not incorporated in various JA productions.  Another wonderful talk.  

We did not stay for the screening of Miss Austen, since we had both set it to record that night.  It is a 4 part adaptation of the book Miss Austen by Gill Hornby.  Miss Austen is Cassandra.  The book is very good and I liked part one of the show also.

Since it was raining (I know - RAIN in May in SoCAL!!!) we did not take the opportunity to stroll around the gardens.

A few more pictures:

This is a Charades fan from the Huntington collection.  Charades were a party game in JA's time, but different from ours.  These were little riddles, often in verse.  People tried to guess the answer.  This fan had several riddles on the front and then the answers on the back.  

I took a class about this where we made our own charades and pasted them and other decorations on a fan.  Afterwards we showed our work and everyone in the group tried to guess the answers.  

 

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