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Giveaway Winner Announced for The Mysteries of Udolpho

Posted in Jane Austen's Contemporaries, tagged , , , , , on 18 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »

30 of you left comments qualifying you for a chance to win a copy of the Oxford Worlds Classics edition of The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe. The winner drawn at random is Miss Kathleen who left a comment on August 12, 2011. Congratulations Kathleen! To claim your prize, please contact me with your [...]

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The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance, by Ann Radcliffe – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Georgian Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 5 August 2011 | 31 Comments »

Guest review by Br. Paul Byrd, OP A deranged nun cloistered away in a convent hidden in the forests of southern France tells the story of when she used to be a beautiful, love-crazed noblewoman, the climax of which is her confession to persuading a married man to poison his wife—and that is just one [...]

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Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for May

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 8 May 2009 | 3 Comments »

The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in May, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.  Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)  What Would Jane Austen Do? by, Laurie Brown  Are you ready for an historical romance laced with Jane [...]

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Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey: Gothically Inspired: Day 19 Giveaway

Posted in Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, Northanger Abbey Movies, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 29 October 2008 | 10 Comments »

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read all Mrs. Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with great pleasure. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could not lay down again; I remember finishing it in two [...]

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The Sunday Salon: Preview of Oxford World’s Classics: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: Day 16 Giveaway

Posted in Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 26 October 2008 | 14 Comments »

Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Reflection brought only regret, and anticipation terror. How often did she wish to “steal the lark’s wing, and mount the swiftest gale,” that Languedoc and repose might [...]

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Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey: Guest Blogger James Jenkins of Valancourt Books Chats About Horrid Novels: Day 12 Giveaway

Posted in Blog Events, Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 20 October 2008 | 18 Comments »

Please join us today as James Jenkins, Gothic fiction authority and publisher of Valancourt Books chats with us today about the Gothic novels that influenced Jane Austen to write her novel Northanger Abbey, and the seven “horrid novels” recommended by her character Isabella Thorpe to our young heroine in the making Catherine Morland.  ” ‘Valancourt? [...]

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The Austen Tattler: News and Gossip on the Blogosphere

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 26 September 2008 | 4 Comments »

“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Austen around the blogosphere for the week of September 21st ‘Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey’ begins on October 1st here at Austenprose, so start reading Northanger Abbey and gearing up for another [...]

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