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Jane Austen Cigarette Cards – A Harmlessly Addictive Amusement

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, tagged , , , 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.

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Niroot Puttapipat

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, tagged , , , , , on 10 March 2009 | 6 Comments »

Niroot Puttapipat a pen and ink and watercolor artist has illustrated three editions of Jane Austen’s novels: Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Emma for The Folio Society.

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Jane Austen Illustrated: Portraits – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, Jane Austen's Life & Times, tagged , , , , , on 10 February 2009 | 20 Comments »

Before make-over, and after A few years back, a publisher decided Jane Austen’s portrait by a Victorian era artist was too ugly to put on a book cover and decided to give her a make-over adding a new hair do and makeup. “She was not much of a looker,” said Helen Trayler, managing director of publisher [...]

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Maximilien Vox

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, tagged , , , , , , on 6 January 2009 | 10 Comments »

“And by my treatment of the pictures I have tried to attune myself to an art which never stresses, records only the essential, draws rather than paints: an art which aims at grace and rhythm rather than at intensity of expression.” Maximilien Vox on Jane Austen Many book illustrators have attempted to interpret Jane Austen’s [...]

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Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey: Guest Bloggers Trina Robbins & Anne Timmons Chat about Gothic Classics: Day 17 Giveaway!

Posted in Austenesque Authors, Austenesque Books, Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen Illustrators, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 27 October 2008 | 22 Comments »

Think of Northanger Abbey in a graphic novel format with all of its energy and Gothic allusions visually popping right off the page, and you will have a good notion of what author Trina Robbins and illustrator Anne Timmons have created in their frightfully enchanting version of Northanger Abbey included in Gothic Classics: Graphic Classics Volume [...]

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Heather Sleightholm

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 25 September 2008 | 2 Comments »

“It is very pretty,” said Mr. Woodhouse.”So prettily done! Just as your drawings always are, my dear. I do not know any body who draws so well as you do. The only thing I do not thoroughly like is, that she seems to be sitting out of doors, with only a little shawl over her [...]

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Isabel Bishop

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , on 17 July 2008 | 4 Comments »

Longbourn (frontispiece) Pride and Prejudice, Dutton (1976) Isabel Bishop (1902-1988) was an American Social Realist Painter and Printmaker, whose contribution of illustrations to E. P. Dutton & Company’s 1976 edition of Pride and Prejudice are quite remarkable. She has been described as “the best female artist America produced aside from Mary Cassatt“, and like Cassatt, [...]

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Douglas Warner Gorsline

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, tagged , , , , , , on 14 June 2008 | 1 Comment »

Douglas Warner Gorsline (1913-1985) was an American book illustrator and fine artist whose line drawings and full color paintings were included in the 1949 edition of Pride and Prejudice, published by The John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia. The book was part of a series of the ten greatest novels in the world selected by author W. [...]

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