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Preview of Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell (Oxford World’s Classics) New Edition

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, Victorian Authors, tagged , , , , , on 4 June 2011 | 6 Comments »

We have several of Oxford World’s Classics editions in our library and are quite partial to their expanded editions. From Austen to Radcliffe to Burney to Gaskell, whatever they take on, their introductions and supplemental material are excellent. The news of this new revised paperback edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford is quite exciting. Due out [...]

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Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, by Jane Austen, edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 24 September 2010 | 26 Comments »

Just when I thought I had more editions of Pride and Prejudice than I should ever own up to, I will freely admit to just one more. After all, what Janeite could resist this tempting package? An unabridged first edition text; Annotations by an Austen scholar; Color illustrations; Over-sized coffee table format; Extensive introduction; And, [...]

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Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Birth with a Blog Tour on September 29th, 2010

Posted in Victorian Authors, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 13 September 2010 | 36 Comments »

“He shrank from hearing Margaret’s very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her–while he was jealous of her–while he renounced her–he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.” Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South 2010 marks the bicentenary of mid-Victorian novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Gaskell’s birth on September 29th, 1810 near London. Best known [...]

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Jane Austen and the ‘father of the novel’ – Samuel Richardson

Posted in Jane Austen's Life & Times, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 10 August 2010 | 16 Comments »

Gentle readers: Last week I reviewed Lynn Shepherd’s new Austen inspired mystery Murder at Mansfield Park. Not only is she an accomplished novelist, she is a distinguished Samuel Richardson scholar with a new book Clarissa’s Painter: Portraiture, Illustration, and Representation in the Novels of Samuel Richardson, published by the venerable Oxford University Press. Richardson was [...]

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By the Seaside with Sanditon: Event Wrap-up

Posted in Blog Events, By the Seaside with Sanditon, Jane Austen's Sanditon, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , on 22 March 2010 | 16 Comments »

All that had the appearance of incongruity in the reports of the two might very fairly be placed to the account of the vanity, the ignorance or the blunders of the many engaged in the cause by the vigilance and caution of Miss Diana Parker. The Narrator, Ch 10  There was so much incongruity in [...]

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Sanditon, by Jane Austen (Hesperus Press): A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, By the Seaside with Sanditon, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Sanditon, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , on 20 March 2010 | 16 Comments »

On the 27th January, 1817 Jane Austen began work on a novel that is now known as Sanditon. It was never completed. Her declining health robbed her of what she dearly loved most, writing, and on the 18th of March 1817 after penning 22,000 words she wrote the last lines of chapter twelve and put [...]

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