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Why Jane Austen? Blog Tour with Author Rachel M. Brownstein and a Giveaway!

Posted in Austenesque Authors, Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , on 28 June 2011 | 53 Comments »

Please join us today in welcoming Austen scholar Prof. Rachel M. Brownstein for the official launch of her book blog tour of Why Jane Austen?, a new literary and cultural history of our Jane’s rise and continued fame that is being released today by Columbia University Press. Jane Austen’s eruption into popular culture in the [...]

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Preview of the Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine Issue No 52, July/August 2011

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, Jane Austen Merchandise, tagged , , , on 25 June 2011 | 4 Comments »

The July/August 2011 issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is now on sale and has been mailed to subscribers. In the new issue: • JANE AUSTEN FESTIVAL IN BATH: A preview of the exciting programme lined up for September, 2011 • THEATRICAL PAINTINGS: The amazing set of costumed portraits collected by Somerset Maugham is [...]

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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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The Little Women Letters, by Gabrielle Donnelly – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 12 June 2011 | 8 Comments »

Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder of Reflections of a Book Addict There are many reasons why books published well over a hundred years ago are still relevant and well loved today.  One of these reasons is that as a reader you become so invested in the lives of the characters that you can’t help but [...]

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The Annotated Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, Edited and Annotated by David M. Shapard – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Reading Challenges, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 25 May 2011 | 39 Comments »

How appropriate that The Annotated Sense and Sensibility is being published during the bicentenary year of Jane Austen’s first published novel. This new book includes the complete text of Jane Austen’s classic with annotations by Dr. David M. Shapard, an expert in eighteenth-century European History who also brought us similar annotated editions of Pride and [...]

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The Ballad of Gregoire Darcy: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Continues, by Marsha Altman – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 22 May 2011 | 9 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising If there was ever an “About the Author” section that seemed to speak to me, directly to me, it is this one: Marsha Altman exists more as a philosophical concept than an atom-based structure existing within the rules of time and space as we know them.  She [...]

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