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On the Trail of Sanditon: The History of the Manuscript

Posted in Blog Events, By the Seaside with Sanditon, Jane Austen's Sanditon, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 18 March 2010 | 22 Comments »

“She continued to work at it as long as she could work at all.” James Edward Austen-Leigh (1871)  On the 27th January, 1817 Jane Austen began work on a novel that is now known as Sanditon. It was never completed. She was gravely ill, and after a brief period of remission, her condition worsened until “her [...]

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By the Seaside with Sanditon: Guest Blog with Julie of Austenonly on Regency-era Seaside Resorts

Posted in Blog Events, By the Seaside with Sanditon, Jane Austen's Life & Times, Jane Austen's Sanditon, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , on 17 March 2010 | 21 Comments »

Joining us today to extend the Sanditon celebration across the Internet is a very special guest, Julie the very affable and talented blog mistress of Austenonly. Her expertise in Georgian and Regency era culture and history is astonishing. Her extensive library of resource books would make even Mr. Darcy envious. To tie into to our ‘By [...]

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Welcome to ‘By the Seaside with Sanditon’ a Celebration of Jane Austen’s Last Novel

Posted in Blog Events, By the Seaside with Sanditon, Jane Austen's Sanditon, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 15 March 2010 | 7 Comments »

“Sanditon…The finest, purest Sea Breeze on the Coast—acknowledged to be so—Excellent Bathing—fine hard Sand—Deep Water ten yards from the Shore—no Mud—no Weeds—no slimey rocks—Never was there a place more palpably designed by Nature”  Welcome, to ‘By the Seaside with Sanditon’, an in depth look at Jane Austen’s last unfinished novel set in the Sussex seaside [...]

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Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for March

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 3 March 2009 | 5 Comments »

Monthly announcment of upcoming Jane Austen novels, sequels, or other Regency authors of note. This month includes: Selected Letter of Jane Austen (Oxford Worlds Classics), Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, by Laurie Viera Rigler (UK release), Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One, by Sharon Lathan, Sandition: Jane Austen’s Unfinsihed Masterpiece Completed, by Jane Austen & Juliette Shapiro, The Talisman Ring, by Georgette Heyer, Remarkably Jane: Notable Quoatations on Jane Austen, by Jennifer Adams, Waverly: or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since (Oxford World’s Classics), by Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor (Oxford World’s Classics), by Sir Walter Scott

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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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