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Jane Austen Illustrators: Niroot Puttapipat

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, tagged , , , , , on 10 March 2009 | 7 Comments »

Niroot Puttapipat a pen and ink and watercolor artist has illustrated three editions of Jane Austen’s novels: Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Emma for The Folio Society.

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Jane Austen Illustrated: Portraits – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, Jane Austen's Life & Times, tagged , , , , , on 10 February 2009 | 20 Comments »

Before make-over, and after A few years back, a publisher decided Jane Austen’s portrait by a Victorian era artist was too ugly to put on a book cover and decided to give her a make-over adding a new hair do and makeup. “She was not much of a looker,” said Helen Trayler, managing director of publisher [...]

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Maximilien Vox

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, tagged , , , , , , on 6 January 2009 | 10 Comments »

“And by my treatment of the pictures I have tried to attune myself to an art which never stresses, records only the essential, draws rather than paints: an art which aims at grace and rhythm rather than at intensity of expression.” Maximilien Vox on Jane Austen Many book illustrators have attempted to interpret Jane Austen’s [...]

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Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey: Guest Bloggers Trina Robbins & Anne Timmons Chat about Gothic Classics: Day 17 Giveaway!

Posted in Austenesque Authors, Austenesque Books, Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen Illustrators, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 27 October 2008 | 22 Comments »

Think of Northanger Abbey in a graphic novel format with all of its energy and Gothic allusions visually popping right off the page, and you will have a good notion of what author Trina Robbins and illustrator Anne Timmons have created in their frightfully enchanting version of Northanger Abbey included in Gothic Classics: Graphic Classics Volume [...]

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Heather Sleightholm

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 25 September 2008 | 2 Comments »

“It is very pretty,” said Mr. Woodhouse.”So prettily done! Just as your drawings always are, my dear. I do not know any body who draws so well as you do. The only thing I do not thoroughly like is, that she seems to be sitting out of doors, with only a little shawl over her [...]

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Isabel Bishop

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , on 17 July 2008 | 4 Comments »

Longbourn (frontispiece) Pride and Prejudice, Dutton (1976) Isabel Bishop (1902-1988) was an American Social Realist Painter and Printmaker, whose contribution of illustrations to E. P. Dutton & Company’s 1976 edition of Pride and Prejudice are quite remarkable. She has been described as “the best female artist America produced aside from Mary Cassatt“, and like Cassatt, [...]

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