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The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen Airs in the UK

Posted in Jane Austen in the News, Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , , , 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, [...]

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Jane Austen Original Manuscript of The Watsons Attains Record Auction Price in London Today

Posted in Jane Austen in the News, tagged , , on 14 July 2011 | 8 Comments »

The Watsons, one of the very few original manuscripts by Jane Austen that still exist has sold at Sotheby’s in London today for a whopping £993,250 ($1.6m), three times the estimated price! The unfinished manuscript was the last remaining of Austen’s work to be owned privately and will now live in splendor at the Bodleian [...]

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On the Block! ~ A Jane Austen Portrait? (via Jane Austen in Vermont)

Posted in Jane Austen in the News, tagged , , , , , , on 7 June 2011 |

Another Jane Austen related item up for auction in London. We may never know if this watercolor portrait is of Jane Austen – but my Marianne-ish sensibilities want it to be so. Christie’s Sale 8021:  Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 8 June 2011 London, King Street  [Jane Austen? by James Stanier Clarke] James Stanier Clarke’s [...]

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Rare Jane Austen Manuscript of The Watsons to be Auctioned at Sotheby’s in London

Posted in Jane Austen in the News, Jane Austen's The Watsons, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , on 21 May 2011 | 4 Comments »

An incredibly rare handwritten manuscript of Jane Austen’s unfinished work The Watsons will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London on July 14th, 2011. It is valued at £200,000 to £300,000. The Watsons is a fragment of a novel that Austen began around 1803 when she was residing with her parents and sister Cassandra in Bath. [...]

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Persuasions No. 32 in the Mail to JASNA Members

Posted in Jane Austen in the News, JASNA AGM, tagged , , , on 15 May 2011 |

Farley Castle, Somersetshire, from the essay by Janine Barchas in Persuasions No. 32 Huzzah! An Austen Alert for JASNA (Jane Austen Society of North America) members. Watch your mailbox this week. The new  issue of JASNA’s journal, Persuasions No. 32, has been mailed to all members. Here is the lowdown from the JASNA website: Persuasions [...]

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Extremely Rare Presentation Copy of Jane Austen’s Emma and Austen Family China on the Block at Sotheby’s

Posted in Jane Austen in the News, Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Life & Times, Jane Austen's Works on 10 November 2010 | 4 Comments »

As Jane Austen fans around the world celebrate her birthday on December 16th, one lucky (and very rich) Janeite will win an auction at Sotheby’s in London for an extremely rare presentation copy of Emma sent to author Maria Edgeworth from Austen’s publisher as a gift from the author after its publication on 23 December [...]

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