Guest review by Br. Paul Byrd, OP “In the days when success in life had depended on marriage and marriage had depended on money, novelists had had a subject to write about. The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage. Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel. And divorce [...]
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The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged Jane Austen, Book Review, Contemporary Ficton, Book Bloggers, Book Blog, The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides on 30 December 2011 | 6 Comments »
Willoughby’s Return: A Tale of Irresistable Temptation, by Jane Odiwe – A Review
Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen Sequels, Jane Odiwe, Sense and Sensibility, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, Willoughby's Return on 28 December 2011 | 33 Comments »
This is my final contribution to The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Reading Challenge 2011. Feeling nostalgic during the holidays, I resorted to an old chestnut in selection of my final read. I enjoyed Willoughby’s Return immeasurably when I first read it two years ago. After re-reading it again, I began to write my new review [...]
The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Celebration at My Jane Austen Book Club Concludes
Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen Films, Jane Austen Novles, Jane Austen Sequels, My Jane Austen Book Club, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Celebration on 27 December 2011 | 3 Comments »
For those following the Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Celebration at My Jane Austen Book Club, featuring monthly contributions by Austen bloggers and authors through the year in honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility, I had the honor of the final post, Marianne Dashwood: A Passion for Dead Leaves and [...]
Sprig Muslin, by Georgette Heyer – A Review
Posted in Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, Book Reviews, tagged Books, Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, Georgette Heyer, Regency romance, Romantic Fiction, Sprig Muslin, Romantic Comedy on 25 December 2011 | 8 Comments »
Guest review by Laura A. Wallace Georgette Heyer’s Sprig Muslin is one of her most entertaining Regency novels. It is a “road book,” full of adventures, comical situations, and fun characters. At the outset, I must beg anyone who leaves a comment to avoid spoilers. New readers should have the pleasure of discovering Amanda’s antics, [...]
The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen Airs in the UK
Posted in Jane Austen in the News, Jane Austen Inspired, tagged Amanda Vickery, Jane Austen, Lost portrait of Jane Austen?, Paula Byrne, The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen on 24 December 2011 | 7 Comments »
Historian and television celebrity Amanda Vickery’s documentary on the fandom of Jane Austen aired in the UK yesterday on BBC. The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen contains Vickery’s observations on Austen’s fame with interviews of scholars and fans. To mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense and Sensibility, [...]
Winners Announced in the Jane Austen Birthday Soiree Giveaway!
Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged Giveaways, Jane Austen, Swag on 22 December 2011 | 14 Comments »
118 of you left comments in the Jane Austen Birthday Soiree qualifying you for a chance to win an assortment of Jane Austen, and Austen-inspired books and note cards. The winners drawn at random are: Jane Austen Made Me Do It, edited by Laurel Ann Nattress (signed) – KatrinaKate who left a comment on December [...]
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