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Great news for Jane Austen readers and book collectors. The Collector's Library, a UK publisher has re-issued their popular and distinctive editions of Jane Austen’s six major novels. These compact 5.9 x 4 inch volumes are beautifully designed for easy handling and include these great features: Full-cloth hardcover bindings Ribbon markers Head and tail bands Gilt... Continue Reading →
Final day of the Book Blogger Appreciation Week and the challenge is to write in 50 words or less, on what I like about my blog now, and where would I like it to be in one year? We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person... Continue Reading →
The blog topic for the fourth day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week (September 14-18) is to write about a book that you discovered by reading about it on another blog - so here goes. Friday’s Child, by Georgette Heyer – recommended by Vic at Jane Austen’s World For years and years, I had been reading... Continue Reading →
Day three of Book Blogging Appreciation Week presents a daily blogging topic as a book reading meme, where we were give a set group of questions to answer and encouraged to be creative. Never one to take the obvious or easy road, I decided to challenge myself beyond just answering the questions from my point... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan has never received much attention in comparison to her other six major novels. It is a short piece, only 70 pages in my edition of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Minor Works containing forty-one letters and a conclusion. Scholars estimate that it was written between 1793-4 when the young... Continue Reading →
I write only to bid you farewell, the spell is removed; I see you as you are…You know how I have loved you; you can intimately judge of my present feelings, but I am not so weak as to find indulgence in describing them to a woman who will glory in having excited their anguish,... Continue Reading →
This correspondence, by a meeting between some of the parties, and a separation between the others, could not, to the great detriment of the Post Office revenue, be continued any longer. The Narrator, The Conclusion, Lady Susan The Postal Service in 18th Century Britain: Letters and the Penny-Post At Jane Austen’s World As the characters in... Continue Reading →
Here is a collection of bon mots, quotes and quips from Lady Susan. Even though Jane Austen wrote this epistolary novella in her late teens, she had already developed a keen eye for language and the witty retort that she would later be famous for in her mature novels. Enjoy! I take London in my way... Continue Reading →
I must warn you of one thing - - do not let Frederica Vernon be made unhappy by that Martin. He wants to marry her; her mother promotes the match, but she cannot endure the idea of it. Reginald De Courcy (Letter 23) QUICK SYNOPSIS Catherine Vernon writes to her mother delighted that Lady Susan... Continue Reading →
The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City has the largest collection of Jane Austen’s personal letters and manuscripts in the world. Among the collection is the manuscript of Lady Susan. We are very fortunate that the Morgan had the foresight to acquire and retain these items as a collection after the Austen family decided to... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan has never received much attention in comparison to her other six major novels. It is a short piece, only 70 pages in my edition of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Minor Works containing forty-one letters and a conclusion. Scholars estimate that it was written between 1793-4 when the young... Continue Reading →
Her neglect of her husband, her encouragement of other men, her extravagance and dissipation, were so gross and notorious that no one could be ignorant of them at the time, nor can now have forgotten them. Sir Reginald De Courcy (Letter 11) QUICK SYNOPSIS Sir Reginald De Courcy writes to his son alarmed by his... Continue Reading →
