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Illustration of The Kiss, from a note card by Janet Taylor This has been a heady week of Pride and Prejudice blitz from the media and bloggers celebrating the 200th anniversary of its publication on Monday, January 28, 2013. There have been so many articles, interviews, read-a-thons, television news segments, and Internet chat about Jane... Continue Reading →
Deb at Jane Austen in Vermont has an excellent blog listing upcoming Austen-related auction items. There are so many tempting offerings – if one had Lizzy Bennet’s pin money!
UPDATE: Prices realized noted in red as they become available
There are a number of Jane Austen materials coming up for auction in the next few weeks, some actually affordable! – and then some, not so much…  here are brief synopses – visit the auction house websites for more information.
This one is a bit different and an interesting addition to anyone’s Pride and Prejudice collection!
November 18, 2012. Heritage Auctions, Lot 54353. Pride and Prejudice 1939 Movie photographs:
Pride and Prejudice (MGM, 1939). Photos (16) (8″ X 10″). Drama.
Vintage gelatin silver, single weight, glossy photos. Starring Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O’Sullivan, Ann Rutherford, Frieda Inescort, Edmund Gwenn, Karen Morley, Heather Angel, Marsha Hunt, Bruce Lester, Edward Ashley, Melville Cooper, Marten Lamont, E.E. Clive, May Beatty, Marjorie Wood, Gia Kent. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
There are 14 different photos with a…
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Julie at Austenonly shares the news about a beautiful set of Austen novels on the block. Oh how I wish.
If you have not been on another planet for the last six months, then you know about Fifty Shades of Grey, by E L James. It’s the first novel in an erotic romance trilogy that has been on the best seller list since April and flying off the shelves at my Barnes & Noble. It... Continue Reading →
Historian and television celebrity Amanda Vickery’s documentary on the fandom of Jane Austen aired in the UK yesterday on BBC. The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen contains Vickery’s observations on Austen’s fame with interviews of scholars and fans. To mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility,... Continue Reading →
Another Jane Austen related item up for auction in London. We may never know if this watercolor portrait is of Jane Austen - but my Marianne-ish sensibilities want it to be so. Christie’s Sale 8021: Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 8 June 2011 London, King Street [Jane Austen? by James Stanier Clarke] James Stanier Clarke’s... Continue Reading →
Farley Castle, Somersetshire, from the essay by Janine Barchas in Persuasions No. 32 Huzzah! An Austen Alert for JASNA (Jane Austen Society of North America) members. Watch your mailbox this week. The new issue of JASNA’s journal, Persuasions No. 32, has been mailed to all members. Here is the lowdown from the JASNA website: Persuasions... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen can’t spell, sucked at grammar and punctuation, and needed a man to complete her! So says Oxford scholar Kathryn Sutherland! Hominy grits! I was going to coldly ignore this folly and nonsense; deignfully not acknowledging its existence; but this is just the outside of enough. The media has grabbed on to Sutherland’s grandstanding publicity tripe and a full on scandal has erupted. It started on Saturday, October 23 with Richard Garner’s report in The Independent…
The UK Royal Mint is asking for the public’s help in determining who will be the next Great Briton? Yes gentle readers, they really care. Cast your vote to see whose face will don a commemorative coin being issued later this year. Among the nominees is our own lovely Jane Austen who must vie for... Continue Reading →
Our favorite Austen addict Laurie Viera Rigler has gone all Hollywood on us. The popular author of the best selling Austen inspired novels Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict has created a web comedy series for Bablegum.com called Sex and the Austen Girl based on her two century swapping heroines... Continue Reading →
Update: Thanks to the excellent Margaret and Crystal at the DWG (The Derbyshire Writers Guild who are also hosted  by Austen.com) for their immediate actions in contacting the domain host and convincing him to comply with my requests.  I know of this through their correspondence and not from the domain host who has not deigned to contact me... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: Call Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Mr. and Mrs. Darcy. A literary mystery is a foot in Lyme Regis. Jane Austen’s head is missing! Adrianne Maslen reports in the Bridport News that a stone bust representing the famous author which was the centerpiece of the Jane Austen Garden... Continue Reading →
