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Sanditon, Austen’s last unfinished work is haute at LibraryThing

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, Jane Austen's Minor Works, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 17 December 2009 | 11 Comments »

This was a happy discovery indeed. LibraryThing lists the most requested new title among their December 2009 Early Reviewers choices as Sanditon, Austen’s last and unfinished novel! Early Reviewers is a service for LibraryThing members who want to receive free advance copies of books in exchange for a review on their blog. To date, this [...]

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‘Prayers composed by my dear sister Jane’ – A Thankful Sense of Jane Austen’s Prayers

Posted in Jane Austen's Minor Works, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , on 25 November 2009 | 3 Comments »

“Give us a thankful sense of the blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by discontent or indifference. Hear us almighty God, for his sake who has redeemed us, and taught us thus to pray. Amen.” Prayer I, Jane Austen Happy Thanksgiving [...]

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Catharine and Other Writings, by Jane Austen (Oxford World’s Classics) – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Minor Works, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , on 31 May 2009 | 6 Comments »

“Beware of swoons, Dear Laura …  A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious; it is an exercise to the Body and if not too violent, is, I dare say, conducive to Health in its consequences — Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint –”  Letter 14, Laura to Marianne, [...]

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Oxford World’s Classics: Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sandition – Our Diptych Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, Jane Austen's Minor Works, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , on 22 October 2008 | 2 Comments »

“Catherine, at any rate, heard enough to feel that in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty” The Narrator, Chapter 30  Gentle readers, Please join us for the fifth in a series of six reviews of the revised editions of [...]

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Run wild through Jane Austen’s Love & Freindship, but do not faint!

Posted in Jane Austen's Minor Works, tagged , , , , , , on 10 September 2008 | 1 Comment »

I have been reading Jane Austen’s Juvenilia and find it delightful. Love and Freindship, (note the original misspelling on friendship) a novella written as an epistolary inscribed “Deceived in Friendship & Betrayed in Love” was dedicated to Madame la Comtesse de Feuillide (Jane Austen’s cousin Eliza Hancock who married a French Count, Jean-Francois Capot de [...]

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Oxford World’s Classics Reveal New Jane Austen Editions

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, Jane Austen's Emma, 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 Sense and Sensibility, tagged , , , , , , , , on 6 May 2008 | 2 Comments »

 “Be satisfied,” said he, “I will not raise any outcry. I will keep my ill-humour to myself. I have a very sincere interest in Emma. Isabella does not seem more my sister; has never excited a greater interest; perhaps hardly so great. There is an anxiety, a curiosity in what one feels for Emma. I [...]

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