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Deadman's Island and Melville Island (Embassy of Canada in France)

Edit Public Technologies 30 May 2016
(Source. Embassy of Canada in France). Deadman's Island and Melville Island are situated on the south side of picturesque Northwest Arm, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Historically linked, they are positioned on either side of a small cove known as Deadman's Cove ... Melville Island entered Canadian military history when prisoners of war were detained there in the late 1790s ... - 30 - ... Original documenthttp.//news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1075599....

Deadman's Island and Melville Island (Parks Canada)

Edit Public Technologies 30 May 2016
(Source. Parks Canada). Deadman's Island and Melville Island are situated on the south side of picturesque Northwest Arm, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Historically linked, they are positioned on either side of a small cove known as Deadman's Cove ... Melville Island entered Canadian military history when prisoners of war were detained there in the late 1790s. It continued in this capacity throughout the War of 1812 and again from 1909 until 1939....

Movie review: 'Love & Friendship' is pure pleasure

Edit The Miami Herald 27 May 2016
Lady Susan Vernon, the dubious heroine of Jane Austen's 1790s-era novella "Lady Susan," is a very accomplished flirt ... As played by a splendidly hatted Kate Beckinsale, Susan is a velvet-voiced, prettily smiling schemer; a young widow seeking well-positioned husbands for herself and her daughter Frederica (Morfydd Clark) while depending on the hospitality of others ... Chaos, in that wonderfully orderly Austen way, ensues ... Cast ... ....

Movie review: ‘Love & Friendship’ is pure pleasure

Edit The Oklahoman 27 May 2016
Lady Susan Vernon, the dubious heroine of Jane Austen’s 1790s-era novella “Lady Susan,” is a very accomplished flirt ... As played by a splendidly hatted Kate Beckinsale, Susan is a velvet-voiced, prettily smiling schemer; a young widow seeking well-positioned husbands for herself and her daughter Frederica (Morfydd Clark) while depending on the hospitality of others. (“We don’t live,” she notes, of herself and Frederica ... ——— ... Cast ... ———....

Whit Stillman talks 'Love & Friendship'

Edit Topix 27 May 2016
Acclaimed director Whit Stillman reunites with his "The Last Days of Disco" stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny for "Love & Friendship," an adaptation of Jane Austen's novella "Lady Susan," which expands to select theaters Friday. In a recent phone conversation, Stillman, 64, talked about his work on the romantic comedy drama, which is set in the 1790s ... ....

Don’t Kiss Me, Kate

Edit The American Spectator 27 May 2016
In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Whit Stillman plays it very funny and safe ... That has both its good and bad sides ... Mr ... And in a way he does play it safe. The moral monster that, during her apprentice years in the 1790s, Jane created when she created Lady Susan Vernon could never have succeeded at the box office without being turned into the joke she becomes when portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in Love & Friendship ... Don’t get me wrong ... But in Mr ... ....

UK Archaeologists Protect and Restore Precious Artifacts Found in Mammoth Cave During Extensive Underground Renovations (University of Kentucky)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
(Source. University of Kentucky). 'Kentucky Life' episode on Mammoth Cave's 75th anniversary, equestrian vaulting and the Parklands of Floyds Fork on KET. LEXINGTON, Ky ... One of the most fascinating sites along the historic trail, the saltpeter mining operation was first established in the 1790s to enable the manufacture of black gunpowder, a precious, rare commodity to the pioneers on the far western edge of the American frontier ... (noodl....

Movie review: 'Love & Friendship' full of delightful surprises

Edit The Miami Herald 26 May 2016
Prepare for a mixed review. I can't choose whether "Love & Friendship" is the best Jane Austen film I have ever seen, or the best I could ever hope to see ... Following many staid and treacly Austen adaptations, this sublime period romp adds a thrilling splash of bemused, acidic humor ... It's not an Austen satire, but a sharp, good-natured modification showing the narcissism of 21st-century life in 1790s English dress ... Rating ... ....

Movie review: ‘Love & Friendship’ full of delightful surprises

Edit The Oklahoman 26 May 2016
Prepare for a mixed review. I can’t choose whether “Love & Friendship” is the best Jane Austen film I have ever seen, or the best I could ever hope to see ... Following many staid and treacly Austen adaptations, this sublime period romp adds a thrilling splash of bemused, acidic humor ... It’s not an Austen satire, but a sharp, good-natured modification showing the narcissism of 21st-century life in 1790s English dress ... ——— ... 4 out of 4 stars....

Best Days of Stillman: The Love & Friendship Auteur Talks Jane Austen, Will Ferrell and ...

Edit Houston Press 26 May 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. -. At long last, Whit Stillman has adapted a Jane Austen book ... I prefer good literary criticism” — but until now, he has worked only from his own original stories ... How did it feel to finally adapt Jane Austen? ... They had living authors who became a problem ... And this is really the 18th century of Austen, so this is set in the 1790s, while most of her stuff is Regency ... ....

Love and Friendship review: Jane Austen adaptation is an unexpected delight

Edit The Independent 25 May 2016
Whit Stillman, 92 mins (U), starring. Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Justin Edwards, Tom Bennett. Love & Friendship is an unexpected delight, a very dry and tremendously witty adaptation of a little known Jane Austen novella. The film boasts surely the finest performance in Kate Beckinsale’s up and down screen career. She plays the scheming Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful single mother in 1790s England....

In Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman and Kate Beckinsale Prove They're the Masters of Austenland

Edit Houston Press 25 May 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. -. In his archly empathetic comedies, Whit Stillman has long chronicled the uncertain ways in which young people of privilege launch themselves into worlds too in decline to offer them much ... The world that the writer-director himself seized also is mostly gone ... Achieving all this pits Susan against the drips and dopes of the landed gentry of the 1790s, but don't fear for her ... ....

Does Love & Friendship improve Jane Austen’s ending?

Edit The Guardian 20 May 2016
Whit Stillman’s latest film is based on a little-known novella written early in Austen’s career. Will it work on screen, and is it worth reading today? ... He has adapted a novella – or, more accurately, a sharply curtailed novel – called Lady Susan, which Austen probably wrote in the mid-1790s, when she was 19 or 20 ... Neither of these tales was published in her lifetime, and neither was intended for publication ... Facebook. Twitter ... ....
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