BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 4.7.23//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Economic Corner 18 - 02/23/2025 DTSTAMP:20250223T162044Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:201-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":troy@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n Economic Corner - profitability of an artist\n\n My Thoug hts\n\n From 70\,000 to 80\,000 was what jane austen made. Happy belated b irthday to her. When I think of artist in general who have made more after death than alive the list is long and that includes many Black artist. I think Basquiat is the example that stings the most cause Jean Michel's art form\, streetart by many blacks to this day is deemed inappropriate \, evi l\, low quality\, and yet \, on the pieces of wood or metal \, if you have a Basquiat original\, you can earn millions in a sale. But the lesson fro m Jane Austen is clear\, the financial value of an artist work is not dete rminable. It is completely relative to a time or place \, so it can't be j udged on even value or in comparison \, only in the moment.\n\n\n\n NOTE\n \n\n\n As a poet I enjoy phyllis Wheatley\, though some of her messages or her style I don't care for as much.\n\n\n\n late 1700s early 1800s black authors\n\n https://blog.genealogybank.com/10-notable-african-americans-in -17th-18th-century-history.html\n\n\n\n +\n\n https://www.nysoclib.org/blo g/more-black-writers-1700s\n\n\n\n U.R.L.\n\n https://www.pbs.org/newshour /show/jane-austen-fans-honor-british-novelists-legacy-250-years-after-her- birthVIDEO\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n TRANSCRIPT\n\n  \n\n\n\n Geoff Bennett:\ nOn this Valentine's Day\, if you're looking for love\, may we suggest you go dancing? After all\, as the British romantic novelist Jane Austen wrot e in her most popular work\, \"Pride and Prejudice\,\" to be fond of danci ng is a — quote — \"certain step towards falling in love.\"\nThis year \, Jane Austen fans are celebrating 250 years since her birth\, and in her homeland of England\, they're expecting a tourist boom\, as special corre spondent Malcolm Brabant reports for our arts and culture series\, Canvas. \n*\nActor:\nMr. Darcy\, allow me to present this young lady to you.\n*\nA ctor:\nShe is the most beautiful creature I have ever beheld.\n*\nActor:\n She's not handsome enough to tend to me.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nIn this jub ilee year\, expect a resurgence of \"Pride and Prejudice\,\" widely consid ered to be Jane Austen's finest creation.\n*\nKathryn Sutherland\, Univers ity of Oxford: She's probably standing shoulder to shoulder with Shakespea re.\n*\nActress:\nThe more I know of the world\, the more I am convinced t hat I shall never see a man who might I can truly love.\n*\nKathryn Suther land:\nThey are works packed with emotional intelligence of the kind we ge t from Shakespeare\, in fact.\n*\nActress:\nYou are the loveliest girls I ever set eyes on. Can you not get them married Mrs. Dashwood?\n*\nKathryn Sutherland:\nShe also was a pioneer of the novel. She developed the psycho logical novel.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nKathryn Sutherland is professor of bi bliography and textual criticism at Oxford University and a leading author ity on Jane Austen.\n*\nKathryn Sutherland:\nShe brought women into the no vel in a probable and realistic way. Her achievements were huge.\n*\nMalco lm Brabant:\nBut Austen's genius wasn't properly recognized until long aft er her death. Jane Austen's six novels only earned her the grand total of between $70\,000 to $80\,000 in today's money.\n*\nActress:\nLook at them\ , five of them without dowry. What's to become of them?\n*\nActor:\nPerhap s we shall drown some of them birth.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nHer characters were consumed with the need to achieve financial security. And yet Jane Au sten herself died in relative poverty. How ironic that she spawned an indu stry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.\nVisitors are expected to floc k to this house\, where Austen succumbed to illness at the age of 41. Rich ard Foster from Winchester College is preparing a commemorative exhibition .\n*\nRichard Foster\, Winchester College:\nThree days before her death\, she dictated a poem to her sister\, Cassandra . So even then she was well enough to carry on writing. And it's a very funny poem.\n*\nMalcolm Braban t:\nDespite being impoverished and relatively obscure\, Austen was buried in one of Europe's grandest cathedrals.\n*\nCanon Roly Riem\, vice-dean\, Winchester Cathedral: It's remarkable that Jane is buried in this cathedra l because you wouldn't expect that to happen. But she is here and she's a focus of an amazing worldwide devotion to her and her writings and all tha t she's left us.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nCanon Roly Riem is vice-dean of Win chester Cathedral.\n*\nCanon Roly Riem:\nWhen we have had a book to rememb er her\, the last big anniversary we have had\, they wrote sometimes pages in it just saying how much Jane had changed their lives\, the difference it made to their outlook or even their career.\n*\nLizzie Dunford\, Direct or\, Jane Austen’s House:\nThis house\, Jane Austen's house\, is hugely significant.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nThirty miles from Winchester is the vil lage of Chawton that was a haven for the young writer.\nLizzie Dunford run s this 19th century time capsule.\n*\nLizzie Dunford:\nSo it's a huge peri od of intense creativity that is made possible and enabled by the creative sanctuary\, the security that this house gives. So it has that intense li terary significance.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nAnd it's in the dining room tha t Austen's disciples gaze upon the wellspring of her creativity\, the writ ing table.\n*\nLizzie Dunford:\nAusten described her novels as her darling children\, as her children. They come from this\, from their nursery and their cradle\, out into that wider world\, and they're now read in every c orner of the world.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nAnother stop on the Austen trail is Bath\, where Actress Lauren Falconer portrays the heroine of \"Pride a nd Prejudice.\"\n*\nLauren Falconer\, Actress:\nJane Austen is an incredib le female writer and she was so ahead of her time in what she was writing. I play Elizabeth Bennet\, who is an obstinate\, headstrong girl\, but I a lso think Jane was very subtle in the ways that she was trying to make cha nges for women in her time period.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nEach summer\, tho usands of aficionados flock to Bath for the annual Jane Austen Festival.\n Tourist chief Catherine Davies says this year's event will be spectacular. \n*\nKathryn Davis\, Managing Director\, Visit West:\nI think it's an oppo rtunity for people to dress up\, to feel that they're part of history mayb e\, and with a backdrop like this that looks like a film set\, what better place to do it in?\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nActor Martin Williamson understa nds why\, in these turbulent times\, Austen devotees seek to escape into h er world.\n*\nMartin Williamson\, Actor:\nIt seems gentler then\, a much g entler time\, not as complicated as it is living today. But\, of course\, it was a very strict social structure\, so if you were born at the bottom of the pile\, there was no way you could really ascend like today. Especia lly in places like the United States\, you can make it. You're encouraged. \n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nFor vlogger and podcast host Izzy Meakin\, the jubi lee festival will be the highlight of the year.\n*\nIzzy Meakin\, Podcast Host\, \"What the Austen?\": You read her books and you can recognize peop le in your own life\, so it doesn't matter that these were written 200-plu s years ago.\nYou can still see people that you know. You're like\, wow\, I know someone like that all or I can see myself in those characters. I th ink that's the real — a real testament to her writing and how incredible she was.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nThat enthusiasm is shared in Oxford Univer sity's august Bodleian Library\, where Kathryn Sutherland examines Austen' s only surviving manuscript of the novel she never finished.\n*\nKathryn S utherland:\nShe seems to work very frugally. As you will see\, she writes onto small pieces of paper and she writes to the very limits of that paper \, so she leaves very little space. So her assumption is that this is a dr aft that's going to work first time.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nThe manuscript was bought at auction in 2011 for over a million dollars to preserve for t he nation.\n*\nKathryn Sutherland:\nOh\, it's magical. It's absolutely mag ical just to think that Jane Austen touched this\, that Jane Austen worked on this. It's a very intimate experience. A manuscript is like a writer's fingerprint\, or it's like getting inside the laboratory and finding out how they create.\n*\nActress:\nIs he handsome?\n*\nActress:\nHe's single.\ n*\nActress:\nOh\, my goodness. Everybody behave naturally.\n*\nActor:\nMr . Collins at your service.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nGiven she was ahead of he r time\, how would Jane Austen have navigated the 21st century's complex r omantic minefields with all their permutations?\n*\nIzzy Meakin:\nI think sometimes it can seem like it's much more complicated now.\nZack Pinsent\, Costume Designer:\nHere's to you. And here's to me. May we never disagree . But if we do\, to hell with you. And here's to me.\n*\nIzzy Meakin:\nBut I think something that Jane Austen would really celebrate is the choices we have now\, the freedom when it comes to love. We can love how we want t o and we can love who we want to.\n*\nMalcolm Brabant:\nAfter all\, the le sson that Austen imparts is that the path to true love requires overcoming pride and prejudice.\nFor the \"PBS News Hour\,\" I'm Malcolm Brabant in Chawton\, Hampshire.\n\n\n\n\n Prior Edition: https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/ 11498-economiccorner017/\n\n\n\n \n\n post mortem money\n\n\n\n POST URL\n \n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11502-economiccorner018/\n\n\n\n PRIOR EDITI ON\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/200-economic-corner-17-022220 25/\n\n\n\n NEXT EDITION\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/202-eco nomic-corner-19-02232025/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 02252026\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n C itation\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12495-what-is-the-future-of-wri ting-as-a-profitable-activity/#findComment-80322\n\n\n\n osted just now\n \n\n\n @ProfD \n\n\n\n   On 2/23/2026 at 9:24 PM\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\ n Most people consume the cheapest bottled water than can find on sale.\n\ n\n\n  \n\n\n\n However\, there's still higher end bottled water on store shelves too.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n There will always be a few writers who ca n make money with their skill &\; creativity.\n\n\n\n true and if yu lo ok at the industry of writing\, writers with huge fanbases are constantly popular\, putting out content\, so ... it is interesting\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\ n @aka Contrarian \n\n\n\n   On 2/23/2026 at 10:26 PM\, aka Contraria n said:\n\n\n\n As much as some are trying to  perpetuate the skill of c ursive penmanship\, it is slowly sinking below the horizon of modern day c ommunication and will soon become a lost art\,  I fear.\n\n\n\n Story tel ling might inherit a better fate and keep the fiction writer a float in th e sea of imagination. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n I have no regrets about not bei ng around to experience the brave new AI world of the future.\n\n\n\n how do you know you will not be here? the AI future may start tomorrow\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250223 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR