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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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4th Edition of Jane Austen’s Letters Due Out in November

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, Jane Austen's Letters, Jane Austen's Life & Times, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 9 April 2011 | 6 Comments »

Exciting news for Janeites! Deirdre Le Faye’s incredible scholarship on Jane Austen and her family continues in this new edition of Jane Austen’s Letters. Many will be thrilled to learn that this 4th edition not only includes a new cover, but updates! Here is the description from Oxford University Press: Jane Austen’s letters afford a [...]

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Penelope Hughes-Hallet, Author of My Dear Cassandra Succumbs at 82

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, Jane Austen's Letters, Jane Austen's Life & Times, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 3 June 2010 | 4 Comments »

My dear Cassandra, Where shall I begin? Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first? – Jane Austen, June 15, 1808 Two years ago I purchased the lovely illustrated volume My Dear Cassandra by Penelope Hughes-Hallet (1990). Inspired by Jane Austen’s close relationship with her sister Cassandra, it is chockablock full of [...]

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Jane Austen Selected Letters (Oxford World’s Classics) – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Letters, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 31 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.” Jane Austen, 24 December 1798  Jane Austen’s personal correspondence has stirred up controversy since her untimely death in 1817 at age 41. The next year her brother Henry Austen wrote in the ‘Biographical [...]

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Austen at Large: Jane Reads Pride and Prejudice to Miss Benn – the luckiest woman in the world

Posted in Jane Austen's Letters, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , on 21 March 2009 | 10 Comments »

Jane Austen’s letters offer a rich repository of her life and Regency times. Austen at Large reporter Virginia Claire shares her thoughts on Jane Austen’s reading of Pride and Prejudice to her neighbor Miss Benn.

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Jane Austen’s Letters: What a bit of pewter will supply

Posted in Jane Austen's Letters, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , on 17 March 2009 | 4 Comments »

Jane Austen’s letters are rich repository of her life and Regency times. In this letter to her sister Cassandra, Jane is in London visiting her brother Henry Austen while her fourth novel Emma is to be published by John Murray. She also talks of shopping and running errands for her family, friends and herself. Even though she has book royalties coming in from her three previous publications, she still is keenly aware of how much a shilling is worth, concerned over her recent purchase of 4 silk stockings!

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Sarah Chauncey Woolsey an admirer of Jane Austen

Posted in Jane Austen's Letters, Victorian Authors, tagged , , , , on 28 December 2008 | 1 Comment »

It would have excited in her an amused incredulity, no doubt, had any one predicted that two generations after her death the real recognition of her powers was to come. Time, which like desert sands has effaced the footprints of so many promising authors, has, with her, served as the desert wind, to blow aside [...]

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Jane Austen and the Modesty of Genius

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, Jane Austen's Letters, tagged , , , , , , , , on 13 July 2008 | 5 Comments »

I would not let Martha read First Impressions again upon any account, and am very glad that I did not leave it in your power. She is very cunning, but I saw through her design; she means to publish it from memory, and one more perusal must enable her to do it. Letter to Cassandra [...]

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