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🎉 Happy book birthday to - To Mark the Occassion: Birthday Tales for Jane Austen's 250th, by Zarilda Belle Frost, Melissa Anne, Christina Boyd, P. O. Dixon, Cathleen Earle, Harry Frost, Susan Kaye, Melanie Rachel, Denise Stout, Bethany R Tolson, foreword by Caroline Jane Knight, published today by VVS Arts. The perfect read for Jane Austen's... Continue Reading →
Isn't it charming? And too true! We had a hand in its creation. We loved this “Shakespeare Spoilers” cartoon so much when we saw it on Facebook recently. It made us laugh out loud. But wait. The Bard is just as clever, witty and engaging as our favorite English author Jane Austen. Shouldn't she get... Continue Reading →
It is Thanksgiving day here at Woodston Cottage and we are very grateful for many things in our life: friends, family and Janeites. I would like to thank the following: Our fabulous reviewers: Christina Boyd, Kimberly Denny-Ryder, Lisa Galek, Katie P., Sarah Emsely, Br. Paul Byrd, and Virginia Clare Tharrington, who freely contribute their time and... Continue Reading →
As an avid gardener and Jane Austen enthusiast, I have been waiting patiently for this...a rose named after one of my favorite novels, Pride and Prejudice! It was inevitable that some rose breeder would cash in on the Pride and Prejudice bicentenary. I am just surprised it took them so long to name a rose... Continue Reading →
Wishing all of my readers, and Janeites in the US, a very happy Thanksgiving day with your friends, family and fur fellows. Jane Austen did not celebrate this American holiday in her lifetime, nor did she know of it. For one, she was an Englishwoman and the holiday was not an official annual tradition in... Continue Reading →
Yes, Dear Reader. Today is Austenprose’s five year anniversary. Huzzah! I can’t believe I have been blogging about Jane Austen and her world for five years, but there it is. Time has truly flown by while we have been having a lot of fun dishing about Jane Austen and the many books, movies and the... Continue Reading →
It's here! The release of the new Facebook game for Janeite's...Rogues and Romance. WOW!!!! Enjoy!!!
Here is great news for budding young writers. US high school juniors and seniors are eligible to enter the Signet Classics 16th Annual Student Scholarship Essay Contest for a chance to win $1,000 award prize! This year’s competition book is Jane Austen’s Emma. Essays must be based on the five topic selected by Signet. Here... Continue Reading →
Hot off the presses is the March/April (No 56) edition of Jane Austen's Regency World magazine, the ultimate Austen reading indulgence. Here are the featured articles! Romance of the East: how the Regency travelers of Jane Austen's time were fascinated by Islam and the Orient In Jane Austen's footsteps: enjoy our tour of Chawton village... Continue Reading →
Happy news for Janeites and gaming fans… The venerable BBC, who have brought us the monumental mini-series of Pride and Prejudice in 1995 and 1980 and many other classic film adaptations, announced today that they will be releasing a new Jane Austen-inspired interactive game, Rogues and Romance, for Facebook next month. Developed in partnership with... 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 →
I am so behind in blogging, so here are the whirlwind highlights of what I have been doing at Woodston Cottage and in California these past two weeks... My Trip to California I left my snug cottage in Snohomish and flew to Los Angeles for a quick Jane Austen-inspired long weekend. On Friday, author Syrie... Continue Reading →
