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From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress:Â For two hundred and one years readers have had the pleasure of reading Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility. For the bicentenary celebration last year, Penguin Classics issued this new edition with an introduction by Cathleen Schine (The Three Weissmanns of Westport) and cover illustration by... Continue Reading →
One of the great things about being the admin to a blog is that you get to read all of the interesting (and sometimes hilarious) questions that people ask search engines – and then land on your blog. If you are wondering what this means, when key words or phrases match material on your blog,... Continue Reading →
That the Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets should meet to talk over a ball was absolutely necessary; and the morning after the assembly brought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate. – Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 5 A very special book is in the queue for fans of Jane Austen, Regency history,... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: Happy dance in the Jane Austen book world today. With the release of Coralie Bickford-Smith’s new cover design of Love and Freindship and Other Youthful Writings, the Penguin Clothbound Classics set of Jane Austen novels now includes seven books: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: Austen scholar David M. Shapard has explained, footnoted, and embraced Austen's most acclaimed novel helping us to understand her most troublesome creature. BOOK DESCRIPTION From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Emma that makes her beloved tale of an endearingly inept matchmaker... Continue Reading →
I could not let this day pass without wishing Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice a happy 199th birthday. Written between October 1796 and August 1797, Pride and Prejudice was first entitled First Impression and would not premiere on the printed page until after many revisions and another sixteen years. Publisher Thomas Egerton of Whitehall... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: As 2011 marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, we are offered another annotated edition to help us understand the social and historical context of the world that Jane Austen places us into in late eighteenth century England. The Sense and Sensibility... Continue Reading →
Last year, the good folks at the Harvard University Press presented the first installment in their commitment to annotate all six of Jane Austen’s major novels. Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, by Jane Austen and edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks set the standard for the series: an unabridged first edition text, annotations by an... Continue Reading →
Even though it has been two hundred years since the world was first introduced to sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood's financial, social and romantic trials, their story remains for me, as fresh and vibrant as any contemporary story you might read of, experience yourself, or hear tell tale of today. I give full credit, of... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress:Â 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 →
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 →
“Happy, happy Elinor, you cannot have an idea of what I suffer." "Do you call me happy, Marianne? Ah; if you knew! And can you believe me to be so while I see you so wretched!" - Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 29 Happiness and suffering, and the emotional extremes that cause it, is an important... Continue Reading →
