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Please join us today in welcoming author Jennifer Adams for the official launch of her book blog tour of Pride & Prejudice: A BabyLit Board Book (Little Miss Austen), a new children’s board book inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that is releasing today by Gibbs Smith Publisher. GUEST BLOG Hi Laurel Ann. Thanks... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Palazzo Editions Limited in Bath, England is publishing a deluxe hardcover edition available in September in the UK and January 2012 in the US. Illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat, one of my favorite Austen artist... Continue Reading →
Sisters Daphne and Gabby Rivera are as different as night and day! Older sis Gabriella is all “straight A’s and neat-freak genes,” according to younger, impulsively romantic sister “Daffy.” Sensible Gabby works part-time to help her single mom make ends meet while studying hard for a scholarship so she can get out of Barton, Texas.... Continue Reading →
Big news! Meredith at Austenesque Reviews is having a month-long celebration of Jane Austen-inspired authors and novels in August called Austenesque Extravaganza! There are about 50 authors participating with guest blogs. Each day of the week will have a different theme and event, like a weekly twitter party with several Austenesque authors. Here is the... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laura A. Wallace: One of the things about Georgette Heyer is that the question “which of her books is your favorite?” tends to invoke a response corresponding to: “whichever one I am reading now.” Every time I reread one of her novels, I am always amazed at how fresh it is,... Continue Reading →
Deb at Jane Austen in Vermont commemorates the passing of Jane Austen 194 years ago today. R.I.P. gilder of every pleasure. [I append here the post I wrote last year on this day] July 18, 1817. Just a short commemoration on this sad day... No one said it better than her sister Cassandra who wrote... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Christina Boyd: Abigail Reynolds' latest self-published offering, Morning Light, is all about second chances, (maybe even thirds). Escaping complicated city life, and all the muddled baggage that it entails, widow Annie Wright is finally living her dream of running her own art gallery on Cape Cod and free of any male... Continue Reading →
The Watsons, one of the very few original manuscripts by Jane Austen that still exist has sold at Sotheby's in London today for a whopping £993,250 ($1.6m), three times the estimated price! The unfinished manuscript was the last remaining of Austen's work to be owned privately and will now live in splendor at the Bodleian... Continue Reading →
It is the fall of 1808 and Jane Austen and her family are in mourning after the sudden death of Elizabeth “Lizzy” Austen, the elegant and enchanting thirty-five-year-old wife of Jane’s elder brother Edward and mother of eleven children. To entertain the two eldest boys while they stay with her in Southampton, Jane takes them... Continue Reading →
Please join us today in welcoming young adult fiction author Jennifer Ziegler for the official launch of her book blog tour of Sass & Serendipity a new Sense and Sensibility-inspired YA novel that is releasing tomorrow, Tuesday, July 12, 2011, by Delacorte Books for Young Readers (Random House). Growing up, I found great comfort in... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Shelley DeWees: Did you ever wonder about Georgiana Darcy, cooped up in her big mansion waiting for a few letters from her big brother? Or how about a mushroom trip at the dinner table, with only the snide Caroline Bingley to keep any clear-headed company? Ever wonder what that would be... Continue Reading →
I am amazed at how many Austenesque novels continue to have “Mr. Darcy” worked into the title. Recently there has been: A Wife for Mr. Darcy, by Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Trouble with Mr. Darcy, by Sharon Lathan, The Truth about Mr. Darcy, by Susan Adriani, Mr. Darcy and the Secret of Becoming a Gentleman,... Continue Reading →
