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Holiday shopping time is here. Got Jane? Jane Pawsten print by Chet Phillips How smug Miss Pawsten looks. No wonder – she’s a cat! This whimsical digital illustration of a feline interpretation of author Jane Austen will have your Janeite friends smiling in agreement. If Jane Austen was reincarnated as an animal, in my humble... Continue Reading →
The economy might me in the tank, but Jane Austen is as valuable as ever. Six first editions of her classic novels hit the auction block at Christies in New York yesterday realizing some handsome prices. Austen may have proclaimed to her family that Emma Woodhouse was the heroine that everyone may not much like, but the... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817 at age forty-one. She left us with six major novels, letters, juvenilia, some miscellanea and a posthumous mystery. What caused her early demise? One hundred and ninety-two years later experts are still speculating on the fatal illness that robbed her of full life and us the possibility of... Continue Reading →
