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Good news Janeites! The four year wait for the next novel in the Jane Austen Mysteries series by Stephanie Barron is almost over. On September 28th, 2010, Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron will be available to quell that consuming need to feed your murder and mayhem meets Austen passion. Marking the tenth book... Continue Reading →
A new website on the block is The Jane Austen Digital Library. Created by Kristin Whitman, a student in the Masters of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, it includes a collection of free resources on the web related to Jane Austen, her works, her life and socio-cultural impact. The main page is The... Continue Reading →
Spinster sleuth Miss Marple returned to Masterpiece Mystery last Sunday with her sensible shoes and ingenious deductions in one of Agatha Christie’s venerable warhorses, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side. What true classic mystery aficionado has not seen one of the movie adaptations of this wonderful 1962 book of the same name? It has... Continue Reading →
You are most cordially invited to ‘Pride and Prejudice without Zombies’ June 15th – July 17th, 2010 at Austenprose In honor of reclaiming Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice back from the living dead Welcome Janeites and classic literature fans. Austenprose is happy to announce its fifth Jane Austen novel event, ‘Pride and Prejudice... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Christina Boyd: I was anxious to read The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice: A Modern Love Story with a Jane Austen Twist, by Abigail Reynolds as I have been a fan of her Pemberley Variations series for a few years, own all her other commercially published and self-published books and... Continue Reading →
“A woman can never be too fine while she is all in white.” Edmund Bertram, Mansfield Park Who’s that beautiful lady prominently displayed on the cover of so many recent Jane Austen inspired novels? Why Frenchwoman, Jeanne-Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamier (1777 - 1849), an icon of neoclassicism and a leader of the literary and... Continue Reading →
Its awards season again in the Jane Austen universe, so put on your best muslin frock and vote for your favorites in the 2010 Jane Austen Regency World Awards. “The Awards recognize the contribution of the nominees in furthering the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the work of Jane Austen.” This year we have been... Continue Reading →
The Hide, the final episode of series VI of Foyle's War aired on Masterpiece Mystery last Sunday. It was by far the best of the season. It’s August 1945 and the Allied Forces are celebrating the end of the war in Europe and the Pacific. However, Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) has his... Continue Reading →
“Revolution had changed the world and fashion had dressed it accordingly.” Sarah Jane Downing It is hard for me not to think of a Jane Austen movie adaptation and not remember how fashion influenced my enjoyment of the film. Some of my most vivid memories are of Elizabeth Bennet walking the verdant countryside in her... Continue Reading →
The wait is over. Make haste to Bablegum.com to see the first of twenty episodes of Sex and the Austen Girl, the new web series inspired by Laurie Viera Rigler’s best-selling novels Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict. Here is the series description from the website: Two... Continue Reading →
Bonhams, one of the few surviving Georgian-era auction houses in London has listed a stunning set of Bentley’s five volume edition of Jane Austen’s novels for auction on June 08, 2010 at its New Bond street location. We usually see her earlier editions circa 1811-1818 published by Thomas Egerton and John Murray offered through the... Continue Reading →
Prejudice and bigotry permeate Killing Time, episode two of season VI of Foyle’s War on Masterpiece Mystery PBS. Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) is faced with the unpleasant reality of American vs. British solutions to racial tension in post war England. While attending a local civic meeting, segregation between the black GI’s stationed at a... Continue Reading →
