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Publication Dates of Jane Austen’s Novels and Minor Works

Posted in Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Minor Works, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Sanditon, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's The Watsons, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , on 31 March 2012 | 13 Comments »

Inquiring reader Lily recently wrote to me and expressed her frustration at not being able to locate the publication dates of Jane Austen’s minor works online. Ever the accommodating Janeite, here is a partial list of her published works. Novels: (c. 1794-1817) Sense and Sensibility: (30 October 1811) Thomas Egerton, Military Library (Whitehall, London) Pride [...]

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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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Giveaway winner Announced for The Annotated Sense and Sensibility

Posted in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, Reading Challenges, tagged , , , , , , , , on 16 June 2011 | 1 Comment »

37 of you left comments qualifying you for a chance to win a copy of The Annotated Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, edited by David Shapard. The winner drawn at random is Jocelyn who left a comment on May 28th. Congratulations Jocelyn! To claim your prize, please contact me with your full name and address [...]

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Sense and Sensibility at the Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle – A Review

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen Stage Productions, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , on 14 June 2011 | 9 Comments »

“Happy, happy Elinor, you cannot have an idea of what I suffer.” “Do you call me happy, Marianne? Ah; if you knew! And can you believe me to be so while I see you so wretched!” – Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 29 Happiness and suffering, and the emotional extremes that cause it, is an important [...]

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Preview of Sense and Sensibility Stage Play at Book-It Rep in Seattle

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen Stage Productions, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , on 28 May 2011 |

We are very fortunate to have one of the nation’s premiere small theater companies right in our own backyard. For the last 20 years the Book-It Repertory Theater of Seattle has been exclusively adapting written work for the stage. Among the sixty plus world premier adaptations they have presented are stage productions of three Jane [...]

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