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Quotes honoring Pride and Prejudice’s 199th Birthday!

Posted in Jane Austen Quotes, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , on 28 January 2012 | 21 Comments »

I could not let this day pass without wishing Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice a happy 199th birthday. Written between October 1796 and August 1797, Pride and Prejudice was first entitled First Impression and would not premiere on the printed page until after many revisions and another sixteen years. Publisher Thomas Egerton of Whitehall [...]

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Austenprose’s Jane Austen Birthday Soiree – December 16, 2011 – with tons of Giveaways!

Posted in Austenesque Authors, Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Inspired, Jane Austen Quotes, Jane Austen's Letters, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , on 16 December 2011 | 120 Comments »

HAPPY 236th BIRTHDAY JANE AUSTEN! Welcome to our contribution to the Austen’s Birthday Soiree! We are participating in the Austen’s Birthday Soiree, hosted by Katherine Cox of November’s Autumn & Maria Grazia of My Jane Austen Book Club. The daylong blog hop will feature a post in celebration of Jane Austen, her life, her novels [...]

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A Soirée with Lady Susan: Choice Bon Mots, Quotes, & Quips from Lady Susan

Posted in A Soirée with Lady Susan, Blog Events, Jane Austen Quotes, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, Jane Austen's Works on 10 September 2009 | 14 Comments »

Here is a collection of bon mots, quotes and quips from Lady Susan. Even though Jane Austen wrote this epistolary novella in her late teens, she had already developed a keen eye for language and the witty retort that she would later be famous for in her mature novels. Enjoy!  I take London in my way [...]

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In Which We Rant and Rave in Favor of Mansfield Park

Posted in Jane Austen Quotes, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , on 28 July 2009 | 31 Comments »

Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park really gets a bum rap from critics and readers. Sometimes I think that I am its only advocate, campaigning to an empty room. Granted, it is not as emotionally charged as Sense and Sensibility or as light, bright and sparkly as Pride and Prejudice, but it does have an admirable [...]

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What Little Dorrit Should Have Learned from Jane Austen about Money

Posted in Jane Austen Quotes, Jane Austen's Works, Masterpiece Classic, Victorian Authors, tagged , , , , , , , on 24 March 2009 | 5 Comments »

Next Sunday, March 29th, The Tales of Charles Dickens continue as Masterpiece Classic broadcasts a new adaptation of Charles Dickens novel Little Dorrit on PBS. This new 5 part BBC/PBS miniseries premiered in the UK last fall to much acclaim. It was adapted by veteran classic bonnet drama screenwriter Andrew Davies who has been very generous [...]

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