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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Austen Merchandise’ Category
Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine Jan/Feb 2010 preview
Posted in Austen Inspired, Austen Merchandise, tagged JA Regency World Mag, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Centre, Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine on 19 December 2009 | 1 Comment »
My Jane Austen Inspired Holiday Gift Wish List for 2009
Posted in Austen Favorites, Austen Inspired, Austen Merchandise, tagged Holiday Gifts, Jane Austen on 8 December 2009 | 10 Comments »
Holiday shopping time is here.
Got Jane?
Jane Pawsten print by Chet Phillips
How smug Miss Pawsten looks. No wonder – she’s a cat! This whimsical digital illustration of a feline interpretation of author Jane Austen will have your Janeite friends smiling in agreement. If Jane Austen was reincarnated as an animal, in my humble opinion, she would [...]
Jane Austen Inspired Calendars for 2010
Posted in Austen Inspired, Austen Merchandise, tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen Calendars on 29 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
“A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.”
Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31
As the New Year quickly approaches, its time to select a new calendar to keep my life in order. Searching about the Internet, I discovered these beautiful new [...]
Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for July
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Merchandise, tagged Amanda Grange, Books, British Library, Camilla, Colonel Brandon's Diary, Fanny Burney, Fiction, Freydis Welland, Georgette Heyer, Hazel Jones, James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen and Marriage, Jane Austen Desk Diary, Jane Austen Pocket Diary, Jane Austen Puzzle, Jane Austen's Sewing Box, Jennifer Forest, Kaye Dacus, Life in the Country, Nonfiction, Potter Style, Ramsom'es Honor, Regency romance, The Grandy Sophy, Vanity Fair, W. M. Thackeray on 1 July 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in July, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.
Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
July is The Grand Sophy month at Jane Austen Today in celebration of this very special [...]
Jane Austen Cigarette Cards – A Harmlessly Addictive Amusement
Posted in Austen Illustrators, Austen Merchandise, tagged Carreras Tobacco Cards, Jane Austen, Jane Austen ephemera on 19 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
Jane Austen was included in the set of cigarette cards of 27 Famous Women (1929) and 50 Celebrities of British History (1935) issued by the Carreras Tobacco Company of London.
Countdown to My Top 10 Jane Austen Inspired Holiday Gifts 2008: Number 10
Posted in Austen Inspired, Austen Merchandise, tagged Coin Firth, Ellen Lohse, Jane Austen, Jane Austen gifts, Jane Austen Merchandise, Jennifer Ehle, Miss Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice on 5 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Art Prints inspired by Darcy & Elizabeth, by Elloh at Esty
Want to ogle over portraits of Mr. Darcy and Miss Elizabeth Bennet in your own family gallery? These two realistic and clever likenesses of the hero and heroine from the 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice are incredibly like actors Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. [...]
Countdown to My Top 10 Jane Austen Inspired Holiday Gifts 2008: Number 9
Posted in Austen Merchandise, tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen gifts, The Jane Austen Centre Gift Shop on 5 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Personalize your library with
Jane Austen bookplates
Let others know you cherish your books with these stylishly decorative Jane Austen bookplates! Each pack contains 20 gummed plates with Jane Austen’s signature and silhouette. Measures 2.9″ x 3.6″ (7.5 x 8cm) Makes a lovely gift for any fan! From the Jane Austen Centre Gift Shop, £2.99.
Countdown to My Top 10 Jane Austen Inspired Holiday Gifts 2008: Number 8
Posted in Austen Merchandise, tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen gifts, The Pemberley Shoppe on 5 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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First impressions prevail with this
I Heart Mr. Darcy Tote Bag
No one will be doubt your preference when you sport this I heart Mr. Darcy tote bag to the gym or your next book club meeting. Made of 100% cotton canvas, this durable tote bag has plenty of room to carry everything you need when you [...]
Countdown to My Top 10 Jane Austen Inspired Holiday Gifts 2008: Number 7
Posted in Austen Merchandise, tagged Jane Austen, Mr. Darcy, Pride & Prejudice 2005, Pride & Prejudice Deluxe Collectors Set on 5 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Be swept away in romance with the Pride & Prejudice 2005 (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
Even though director Joe Wright’s romanticized adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic love story raised more than a few eyebrows when it was released in 2005, it is an interesting and engaging romp through Jane Austen’s most popular work.
The greatest love story of [...]
Countdown to My Top 10 Jane Austen Inspired Holiday Gifts 2008: Number 6
Posted in Austen Merchandise, tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen gifts, Jane Austen: An Illustrated Treasury, Rebecca Dickson on 5 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Jane Austen: An Illustrated Treasury
Any Janeite worth their weight in syllabub will ooo and ahh at this beautiful book packed full of enough information and paraphernalia to keep them busy way beyond Christmas day. It is definitely one of my top ten Jane Austen books of 2008, not only because it is creative and visually [...]
Countdown to My Top 10 Jane Austen Inspired Holiday Gifts 2008: Number 5
Posted in Austen Merchandise, tagged Austentations, Jane Austen, Jane Austen gifts on 5 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Jane Austen Quotation Notecards
These attractive Jane Austen inspired notecards set the mood for your personal notes to family and friends or as gift.
This set of six notecards is the perfect gift for a Jane Austen afficianado. Printed on ivory cardstock and embellished with ribbon, the blank interiors are simply waiting for inscription. The cards come [...]
Countdown to My Top 10 Jane Austen Inspired Holiday Gifts 2008: Number 4
Posted in Austen Merchandise, tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen gifts, The Jane Austen Action Figure, The Jane Austen Handbook on 5 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Jane Austen Gift Set: Handbook & Action Figure
This clever combination will inspire the ‘young Regency Miss’ in every Janeite. Who does not want her very own Jane Austen action figure and the ultimate handbook on how to become a Regency Miss?
In The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World, author Margaret [...]
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Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, 21 April 1805
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JANE BITES BACK
by Michael Thomas Ford
Nearly two hundred years after her reputed death in 1817, Jane Austen is actually not dead, but a vampire living in upper-state New York. As the owner of Flyleaf Books she watches with irritation and frustration as other less talented writers make a killing off her novels with sequels, spin-offs and absurd self help books while her own novel remains unpublished after two hundred years and 116 rejections. Her quiet life will change dramatically when her book is finally published and a dark man from her past reappears.
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Visit the new Jane Austen exhibition November 6, 2009 through March 14, 2010 at the Morgan Library in New York City. Featured are several of Jane Austen's letters, manuscripts of The Watsons and Lady Susan, and extensive support material including information on her contemporaries, images of artwork from the era, vintage novels and a new film interviewing contemporary writers, actors and artists on Austen's enduring legacy.
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Discover news and discussion on movies, print, sequels, web and blog sites and other modern day media about Jane Austen with a fun fresh approach! New Austen Inspired Book
WILLOUGHBY'S RETURN
by Jane Odiwe
Three years after the close of Sense and Sensibility Marianne Brandon appears to have everything that a young married woman could desire: wealth, position, an heir and a loving husband, but her insecurities, jealousy and impetuous nature rob her of complete happiness. Enter John Willoughby, her first lost love to tempt her into a renewed relationship. Marianne's younger sister Margaret also has her own romantic drama that might equal Marianne's dilemma. Will a young lady find love, and a married one realize it?
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A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY
ACKNOWLEDGED: 33 GREAT
WRITERS ON WHY WE
READ JANE AUSTEN
edited by Susannah Carson
Thirty-three contemporary and classic writers from the last century reveal why we are compelled to read the works of Jane Austen after nearly two hundred years. From author Virginia Woolf to screenwriter and director Amy Heckerling, what unfolds is a compelling and insightful collection of views on Austen's endurling appeal and why we read her.
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The romance of Emma, Lady Hamilton and Lord Horatio Nelson might just be the most infamous romance of the Napoleonic age. She was an reputedly beguiling beauty and he a brilliant naval hero, both married to others, yet scandalously engaging in an love affair that shaped history. This 1941 movie staring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as the two ill-fated lovers has just been re-issued on DVD by Criterion Collection and may be one of my favorite romantic movies short of Pride and Prejudice.
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One of the lesser known works, Lady Susan just might be the sleeper novel of Jane Austen's oeuvre. Meet Lady Susan, the "Mistress of deceit," who is tagged the most "acomplished coquette in England" by society, and for good reason. She flirts with married men and steals other ladies beaux right under their noses, all without a whiff of conscience. Written in Austen's late teens, it's unguarded and exhuberant style is highly memlodramatic and outrageously fun.
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LOST IN AUSTEN
A new four part television mini-series based on Jane Austen's famous novel Pride and Prejudice aired in the UK in September 2008 to mixed critical reception. I liked it! You can read all four of my reviews on each episode by following the links listed below.
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