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1. on 20 June 2011 at 11:54 pm Tony Grant

   Ok Laurel Ann, I’m with you in your passion, but a “bobble head!!” I’m afraid it leaves me speechless. Ha! ha!

   How big is it by the way? Now if it was life size, just imagine;”Nightmare on Jane Street.”

   Dare we ask how much you forked out for it?

   
   
2. on 21 June 2011 at 5:03 am Anna (Diary of an Eccentric)

   So cool! Glad you were finally able to add it to your collection.

   
   
3. on 21 June 2011 at 5:12 am marinabarrie

   yes… go ahead and make me jealous! lol

   
   
4. on 21 June 2011 at 5:17 am Ruth

   Oh that’s awesome! So glad you finally acquired one for your Jane collection! :)

   
   
5. on 21 June 2011 at 6:00 am Mimi

   : )

   
   
6. on 21 June 2011 at 6:06 am jeffrey

   Laurel Ann: THAT’S NOT FAIR! {:-D)

   
   
7. on 21 June 2011 at 6:31 am Tony Grant

   So, are you all saying that you would ALL!!! actually like one????

   All the best,
   Tony

   
   
8. on 21 June 2011 at 6:58 am vvb

   i like it! she is actually quite pretty too for a bobblehead.

   
   
9. on 21 June 2011 at 7:12 am Felicia

   I’m totally jealous! I must have a Jane Austen bobblehead.

   
   
10. on 21 June 2011 at 7:45 am jennythelibrarian

    I saw this at a JASNA birthday tea a couple years ago. I asked the owner about it and got the story like you described. I was sad to know I’d never own one. It is adorable. I know it was a promotional item for their book but really they should start mass producing it. Imagine the amount of money they could make.

    
    
11. on 21 June 2011 at 8:20 am Meg

    Love it — and love that the book clutched in her arms reads All Things Austen! How very meta. Jane holding a book about Jane. Congrats on your find! :)

    
    
12. on 21 June 2011 at 8:54 am Tony grant

    I’m gobsmacked, as we say quaintly over here. Ha! Ha! ha!

    
    
13. on 21 June 2011 at 9:36 am Tony Grant

    Laurel Ann I hope you get great enjoyment from your purchase.I must admit I feel defeated in trying to understand it’s appeal but everyone to their own.

    Are ,”bobble heads,” very popular in the States then? Sometimes we have nodding dogs on the back windows of our cars. I must state categorically that I don’t personally have a nodding dog but they appeal to some.

    All the very best,
    Tony

    
    
14. on 21 June 2011 at 10:13 am jeffrey

    Hi Tony: I’ve enjoyed your comments! As they say in the southern U.S. “y’all ain’t from these part, are yuh??” Actually the JA bobblehead sets new standards for refinement and elegance in in bobbleheads. The United States is an obsessively auto-based culture so you see some of the most hideous and disgusting objects through the back windows of American cars. A pair of sunglasses like Zaphod Beeblebrox wore in THGTTG where they go totally black when the viewer sees something very frightening would be in order. [:-D)

    
    
15. on 21 June 2011 at 11:03 am Marilyn Brant

    LOL, Laurel Ann! I was working at a library in 2005 and at ALA that summer (it was held in Chicago) there was the book vendor giving out the bobble-heads. I couldn’t have been more excited!! It’s been sitting on my desk, next to my oldest editions of P&P, since then ;). So glad you finally got one!!

    
    
16. on 21 June 2011 at 11:34 am Raquel

    Oh! I did not know of the existence of bobbleheads in general and even less of Jane Austen’s bobblehead.

    I’ll invite my Jane Austen em Português’s readers, from Brazil, to visit your lovely Bobble-head Jane!

    
    
17. on 21 June 2011 at 8:47 pm Shannon Winslow

    Congratulations on your acquisition, Laurel Ann! The JA bobble head is a new one on me.

    
    
18. on 22 June 2011 at 9:03 am faith hope & cherrytea

    totally FuN! woohoo for you!

    
    
19. on 22 June 2011 at 1:07 pm Karen Field

    I would imagine you also have the Jane Austen Action Figure? I have but have not had the courage to open the package. I want to put it on my desk at school but she looks pretty in the package and I don’t want any 7 year olds walking off with her.

    Congratulations on the bobble-head. I am having fun watching the Brits respond to this. I hadn’t realized this was such an American thing. I’m not generally a fan of them but I would totally go for this one if I thought I could get it!

    
    
20. on 22 June 2011 at 1:44 pm Tony Grant

    “Jane Austen Action Figure!!” Are you pulling my leg??????

    You MUST be joking.

    All the best,
    Tony

    
    
21. on 23 June 2011 at 5:21 am Ritamaie

    Laurel Ann, congratulations on your acquisition of the Jane bauble head! Any Janeite could certainly understand how exciting it would be to get one since they aren’t readily available. Happy gloating!!! (I would gloat too!)

    
    
22. on 25 June 2011 at 7:42 am C. Allyn Pierson

    One expects a bobble head to have an oversized head, but her feet are huge too- size 15 maybe? They probably stretched from all those Cotillions, Country Dances and (gasp) perhaps even the occasional waltz!

    
    
23. on 25 June 2011 at 10:16 am Boneca Bobblehead de Jane Austen | Jane Austen em Português

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24. on 25 June 2011 at 12:55 pm Adriana Zardini

    Lovely!

    
    
25. on 25 June 2011 at 2:06 pm Bluestocking

    I’m jealous.

    
    
26. on 27 June 2011 at 6:01 pm Eric

    I found one at a yard sale today and bought it because I collect bobbleheads. No idea what it was. Only paid $3. How much are they?

    
    
27. on 28 June 2011 at 2:09 pm Eric

    You people seem like big fans. If you want it please write me. Blairsitch@aol.com

    Thanks
    Eric

    
    
28. on 14 August 2011 at 7:15 pm Helena

    This was just posted on eBay:
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Very-Rare-Jane-Austen-Bobblehead-still-orig-box-/120764103087?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1e19f9af

    
    

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