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Jane Austen’s novels brim with irony, witticism, and in the end, a gentle reprove or two. It is why I love her writing. Few authors can deliver this dry, deft and wickedly funny style. Michael Thomas Ford is one of them. His latest novel Jane Bites Back is more than a gentle joke, it is... Continue Reading →
I think that Susannah Carson has had the dream job working as editor of A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, a new literary collection of essays published by Random House. Personally, I can think of nothing more engaging and rewarding than scouring through essays on Jane Austen from... Continue Reading →
Hot off the presses is the January/February 2010 (No 43) edition of Jane Austen's Regency World, the official magazine of the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England and the ultimate Austen reading indulgence. Here are the featured articles: Sex and the city: Dan Cruickshank explains how London was built on the wages of sin Comparing Jane... Continue Reading →
This was a happy discovery indeed. LibraryThing lists the most requested new title among their December 2009 Early Reviewers choices as Sanditon, Austen’s last and unfinished novel! Early Reviewers is a service for LibraryThing members who want to receive free advance copies of books in exchange for a review on their blog. To date, this... Continue Reading →
December 16th is a festive day for Janeites. On a very snowy day in 1775 our favorite author Jane Austen was born to Rev. George Austen and his wife Cassandra at Steventon rectory in Hampshire, England. Many local chapters of the Jane Austen Society around the world will be celebrating with a tea in her honor this... Continue Reading →
Yes, Darcy is now a vampire! Well actually a Dhampir. Do I sound skeptical or just cynical? Vampires are hot in the media these days after the Twilight phenomenon. Moreover, everyone knows that a young “lady's imagination is very rapid;” it jumps from the nouveau hottie on the block Edward Cullen to the ultimate one,... Continue Reading →
Holiday shopping time is here. Got Jane? Jane Pawsten print by Chet Phillips How smug Miss Pawsten looks. No wonder – she’s a cat! This whimsical digital illustration of a feline interpretation of author Jane Austen will have your Janeite friends smiling in agreement. If Jane Austen was reincarnated as an animal, in my humble... Continue Reading →
The economy might me in the tank, but Jane Austen is as valuable as ever. Six first editions of her classic novels hit the auction block at Christies in New York yesterday realizing some handsome prices. Austen may have proclaimed to her family that Emma Woodhouse was the heroine that everyone may not much like, but the... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817 at age forty-one. She left us with six major novels, letters, juvenilia, some miscellanea and a posthumous mystery. What caused her early demise? One hundred and ninety-two years later experts are still speculating on the fatal illness that robbed her of full life and us the possibility of... Continue Reading →
“A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 As the New Year quickly approaches, its time to select a new calendar to keep my life in order. Searching about the Internet, I discovered these beautiful... Continue Reading →
“Give us a thankful sense of the blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by discontent or indifference. Hear us almighty God, for his sake who has redeemed us, and taught us thus to pray. Amen.” Prayer I, Jane Austen Happy Thanksgiving... Continue Reading →
Last June I posted a preview of Darcy’s Hunger, a new Pride and Prejudice retelling of Jane Austen’s famous love story with a vampire theme. Since then, the book has gone through a ‘turning’ so to speak with a new cover, an earlier release date of October 1st, 2009 and complete name change to Vampire... Continue Reading →
