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I will be away for a few days on a working holiday in California to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America - Southwest Chapter's Winter Symposium on Saturday, December 3rd in celebration of Jane Austen's birthday (December 16) and a day long event, Do Not Physic Them: Medicine on Jane Austen's Time. In... Continue Reading →
Guest review by Laura A. Wallace A prequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Vanity and Verity tells the story of an earlier generation’s courtship of two young ladies who later figure prominently in Austen’s classic tale. Lady Anne Fitzwilliam and her sister, Lady Catherine, the daughters of the Earl of _______, go to London... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laura A. Wallace: A Civil Contract is an atypical Georgette Heyer novel. While the setting is firmly Regency, beginning at the time of the Battle of Orthez (February 1814) and ending with that of Waterloo (June 1815), it is neither lively nor witty. It is a quiet book, with a love... 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 →
From the desk of Christina Boyd: Best-selling author Linda Berdoll’s Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife and Darcy & Elizabeth have been hailed as “sexy, hilarious, poignant” and “wild, bawdy and utterly enjoyable (Booklist.)” But also, “blasphemy, smut and trash,” are not uncommon adjectives used by her severest critics. Rarely has there been such a clear... Continue Reading →
Do you remember what your reaction was when you learned that famed British crime novelist P. D. James, an ardent admirer of Jane Austen, had written a sequel to Pride and Prejudice? I do. I gasped in total disbelief and stared at my computer screen for about a minute while the world around me stood... Continue Reading →
Here we are at the ninth novel in the Being a Jane Austen Mystery series, Stephanie Barron’s sagacious slant on “our dear Jane” as a sleuth! The spring of 1811 finds Jane in London staying with her banker-brother Henry Austen and his sophisticated wife Eliza at their residence on Sloane Street preparing her first novel,... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen’s personal life is a bit of an enigma. We know a bit about her day-to-day life from her remaining personal correspondence; of which a few snippets allude to her beaux and friends. Readers are often puzzled how a spinster wrote so perceptively about romance and the human heart. One would think that first-hand... Continue Reading →
Gentle readers: We are happy to share our first contribution to a new monthly column, Reading Austen. Today guest blogger Anthony Garcia shares his personal story of how he discovered Jane Austen and why reading her novels is so special for him. Growing up, if you would've asked me who Jane Austen was, I probably... Continue Reading →
UK readers will be pleased to discover that the entire Jane Austen collection by Naxos Audiobooks is 25% off online until January 31, 2012 at NaxosDirect.co.uk. I adore this collection, many of which are narrated by the Incomparable Juliet Stevenson! That's the entire Jane Austen collection, all six major novel and her minor works -... Continue Reading →
Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder of Reflections of a Book Addict In Sharon Lathan’s newest venture into the world of Pride and Prejudice, readers are given a chance to fall in love with one of Austen’s minor characters, Georgiana Darcy. For those that have been following Lathan’s Darcy Saga, you’ll know that Georgiana falls in... Continue Reading →
