NEWS RELEASE
PR 1704
For Immediate
Release
15 April 2004
Jane Austen: Film and Fashion -
souvenir guide now available
A 36 PAGE souvenir guidebook to
complement the Museum of Costume’s latest special exhibition is now
available.
Bath & North East Somerset Council
has produced the book for the Jane Austen: Film and Fashion
exhibition. It costs £3.95 and is now available at the Museum in
Bennett Street, Bath.
Patricia Dunlop, Commercial
Marketing Manager for Heritage Services, said: “This is the first
time Bath & North East Somerset Council has produced a guidebook
especially for one of the special exhibitions at the Museum of
Costume.
“The exhibition is already proving
to be a great success with more than 20,000 people visiting since it
opened in February. We hope the guidebook will be a perfect souvenir
to the many visitors we are expecting throughout the summer months.”
The book, which is full of colour
photographs and drawings, contains information about all of Jane
Austen’s six novels and the television and film adaptations that
have been created from them.
It also explains how costume
designers clothed their cast in the light of very little information
from the novels about what the characters actually wore.
Jane Austen: Film and Fashion is
open throughout 2004 and contains 24 costumes from well known TV and
film adaptations including the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice and Emma
starring Gwyneth Paltrow, alongside original pieces from the Museum
of Costume’s extensive collection.
The Museum of Costume – run by Bath
& North East Somerset Council – is based at the Assembly Rooms in
Bennett Street, Bath. It is open daily 11am-4pm November to February
and 11am-5pm March to October.
For more information log on to
www.museumofcostume.co.uk
or telephone 01225 477789.
Notes to Editors:
Photographers are welcome to come
along to the Museum of Costume where one of the shop assistants will
pose with a copy of the book.
A selection of images including
stills from TV and film adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels and a
selection of pictures from the exhibition are available by calling
Maggie Bone or Angela Payne on Tel: 01225 477736/37 or e-mail
maggie_bone@bathnes.gov.uk
The Museum of Costume is based at
Bath’s historic Assembly Rooms. It tells the story of fashion over
the last 400 years and is one of the finest museums of fashionable
dress in the world. More than 150 figures dressed in original
garments are on display at any one time, drawn from the museum’s
collection of more than 30,000 historic items. The collection is
designated by Re:source as an “outstanding collection of national
and international significance”.
For more information, contact:
Patricia Dunlop, Commercial
Marketing Manager - Heritage Services, Tel: 01225 477759 or e-mail
patricia_dunlop@bathnes.gov.uk
Judith Zedner, Retail Services
Manager, on Tel: 01225 477796 or e-mail judith_zedner@bathnes.gov.uk
For comment, contact:
Cllr Nicole O’Flaherty, Executive
Member for Tourism, Leisure and Culture, on Tel: 01225 310341 or
e-mail nicole_oflaherty@bathnes.gov.uk
Issued by: Bath & North East
Somerset Press Office, tel 01225 477827 or 477283, email:
pressoffice@bathnes.gov.uk |
