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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE AUSTEN 16 December 1775 Pull out your party horns and paper bonnets, and join the livations today for the authoress of awe, Jane Austen! I shall be celebrating in style with an all day marathon of a viewing of the film adaptations of Pride & Prejudice. Which One you ask? I shall... Continue Reading →
JANE AUSTEN BICENTENARY CELEBRATION COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS 1975 __________________________________________________ In honor of the felicitous celebration of Jane Austen's birthday here at Austenprose, we shall be visiting the story behind a reverent homage to our dear authoress. The creation and issue of the 1975 British bicentenary stamps. Part One A PROPOSAL In 1973, as the momentous 200th anniversary of Jane... Continue Reading →
GLORIED Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the next morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast. They went to the sands to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the grandeur which so flat a shore admitted. They praised... Continue Reading →
MERIT With so much true merit and true love, and no want of fortune and friends, the happiness of the married cousins must appear as secure as earthly happiness can be. Equally formed for domestic life, and attached to country pleasures, their home was the home of affection and comfort; The Narrator on Rev. &... Continue Reading →
MEASURE "Ah, my dear, as Perry says, where health is at stake, nothing else should be considered; and if one is to travel, there is not much to chuse between forty miles and an hundred. Better not move at all, better stay in London altogether than travel forty miles to get into a worse air.... Continue Reading →
CONSCIENCE "A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others." Marianne Dashwood on Colonel Brandon, Sense & Sensibility, Chapter 31 This is a profound statement from a young lady who herself, has nothing to do with her own time! Isn't this like calling... Continue Reading →
