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🎉HUZZAH! Today marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. I am honored to be included among a list of amazing Austen fans who are collaborating on a cyber party in her honor December 16 – 19, 2025 on Instagram. There will be discussion and a chance to win fabulous Austen-inspired books & gift items.... Continue Reading →
🎉 December 16th, 2025 is a very speical anniversary for Jane Austen. It's the 250th anniversary of her birth in 1775. ❤️ Please join us on Instagram for a a cyber birthday party December 16th - 19th hosted by @vanessakellyauthor, @kensingtonbooks, @canterburyclassics, @hazel.and.harolds and @austenprose. ▶ There will be several book influencers particiating and... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: Don't you love Saturday mornings? I find that they are my favorite day and time of the week—mostly because I can indulge in doing things for myself. Such a luxury. This morning, I made banana muffins and started listening to an audio recording of Jane Austen at Home,... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: More Jane Austen-inspired movie news! Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy the movie premieres in the US tomorrow, February 13th on the streaming service Peacock Channel, and in theaters on Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2025. Two-time Academy Award® winner Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: In celebration of the #janeausten250 there will be several new books to honor her sestercentennial. Topping my list of must reads is Wild for Austen, by Devoney Looser releasing in September from St. Martin's Press. Looser is the author of mutliple nonfiction literary criticisims and biographies of 18th... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: Next year we celebrate a milestone in Jane Austen’s life — the 250th anniversary of her birth on December 16, 1775, at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire. There will be many events and books throughout the year to commemorate her special year. I am thrilled to present to you... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: Hello readers! Do you have plans for the weekend? While international and local travel is restricted during the pandemic, would you like to visit Jane Austen's England from the safety of your armchair? It is great to know that we can still visit Jane Austen country via Jane... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Sophia Rose: Compiling his thoughts on the first three of Jane Austen’s published novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park, author Robert Rodi fires a broadside at the swooning, sugary sentimentality of the modern Jane Austen fan craze. He is appalled that such a group has turned a... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Tracy Hickman: Was Jane Austen a radical? Was she sympathetic to the “radical reforms” of Charles James Fox and others that included universal male suffrage, the abolition of slavery, and women’s rights? Few would readily place her in the company of Thomas Paine, William Godwin, or Mary Wollstonecraft, but perhaps that... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: Hot off the presses is a new Jane Austen quote book. I know what you are thinking. Why do I need yet another pithy volume of my favorite author’s best lines jockeying for position on my bedside table along with my Jane Austen bobblehead and my “Waiting for... Continue Reading →
A celebration is in progress today in honor of one of the world's most popular authors. July 18, 2017 marks the bicentenary of Jane Austen's death at Winchester, England in the arms of her sister Cassandra. She was only 41 years old. We have six novels, one novella and minor works to cherish. Her fandom... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Lisa Galek: In July of 1995, I had just turned 15 when my high school girlfriends suggested we go see the new movie Clueless. At the time, I didn’t know that writer/director Amy Heckerling had based the plot of her movie about a pretty, rich girl from Beverly Hills on Jane... Continue Reading →
