Hot off the presses is the January/February 2010 (No 43) edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World, the official magazine of the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England and the ultimate Austen reading indulgence. Here are the featured articles:
Sex and the city:
Dan Cruickshank explains how London was built on the wages of sin
Comparing Jane Austen with Iris Murdoch
Dr Gillian Dooley examines similar traits in Austen’s Mansfield Park and Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Jane’s civil rogue
Maggie Lane, consultant editor of JARW, discusses John Murray, Jane’s publisher
When the bubble burst:
the devestation caused by the South Sea Bubble, by Joanna Brown
Three Creole Ladies
Paul Bethel on Empress Josephon, Fanny Nisbet and Jane Leigh Perrot
Prince of Prints
Inside Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts, by Sue Wilkes
Queen of Science
The tale of Mary Somerville, by Nelly Morrison
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Plus: a new Austen Quiz, book reviews, My Jane Austen (Sandy Welch, who adapted Emma for the BBC) and news from JAS and JASNA.
Win a Jane Austen audiobook set from Naxos in which we swooned over and featured on our holiday gift wish list.
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Coming up in the March/April 2010 issue is a music special: What was on Jane Austen’s iPod with a complementary CD with every copy, featuring music from Bath in Jane Austen’s time.
Also check out the December Jane Austen Centre newsletter online and sign-up for your own monthly issue for free.
Enjoy!
Laurel Ann (Austenprose)
Virginia Claire
Christina B.
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Kimberly (Reflections of a Book Addict)
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Br. Paul Byrd, OP
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Lucy Warriner
Lisa Galek
The March/April 2010 issue is intriguing — I’m curious to know what’s on Jane Austen’s iPod. ;)
Btw, Laurel Ann, I went to watch Jane Austen Unscripted the other day and loved it. The actors really know their Jane! I wish they did more performances, but it was two weekends only.