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Follow Friday: Signet Classics 16th Annual Student Scholarship Essay Contest Inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , on 16 March 2012 | 2 Comments »

Here is great news for budding young writers. US high school juniors and seniors are eligible to enter the Signet Classics 16th Annual Student Scholarship Essay Contest for a chance to win $1,000 award prize! This year’s competition book is Jane Austen’s Emma. Essays must be based on the five topic selected by Signet. Here [...]

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Follow Friday: Jane Austen’s Regency World March/April 2012 Preview

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, Jane Austen Merchandise, tagged , on 2 March 2012 | 2 Comments »

Hot off the presses is the March/April (No 56) edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, the ultimate Austen reading indulgence. Here are the featured articles! Romance of the East: how the Regency travelers of Jane Austen’s time were fascinated by Islam and the Orient In Jane Austen’s footsteps: enjoy our tour of Chawton village [...]

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New Jane Austen-inspired Facebook Game Announced by the BBC & Legacy Interactive

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, Jane Austen Merchandise, tagged , , , , , , on 24 February 2012 | 16 Comments »

Happy news for Janeites and gaming fans… The venerable BBC, who have brought us the monumental mini-series of Pride and Prejudice in 1995 and 1980 and many other classic film adaptations, announced today that they will be releasing a new Jane Austen-inspired interactive game, Rogues and Romance, for Facebook next month. Developed in partnership with [...]

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The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Celebration at My Jane Austen Book Club Concludes

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , , , , on 27 December 2011 | 4 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 [...]

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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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Winners Announced in the Jane Austen Birthday Soiree Giveaway!

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , 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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