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JANE AUSTEN: SEVEN NOVELS Hot off the presses! Barnes & Noble has published a new edition of Jane Austen's novels. It is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series which includes favorite authors such as Dickens, Poe, Shakespeare, Wilde and others. Each volume is an unabridged edition of collectors quality full leather with gold embossed edges.... Continue Reading →
We must allow for difference of taste...the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! Marianne Dashwood, Sense & Sensibility, Chapter 3 The name of Jane Austen may be the most recognizable British literary figure in... Continue Reading →
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A JANE FAN A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing  anything, should  conceal it as well as she can.  The Narrator, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 14 Jane is everywhere these days. The media deluge continues daily about The Complete Jane Austen  presentation on PBS, and Northanger Abbey airing... Continue Reading →
ACQUISITIONÂ To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.The Narrator on Catherine Morland, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 1 This is our introduction to our young heroine Catherine Morland, and it... Continue Reading →
  3 DAYS TO PERSUASION ON PBS Sunday, the 13th of January, at 9:00pm The excitement is building. Mark your calendars and set your watches for the premiere of the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel of love and redemption, Persuasion, staring Sally Hawkins as our heroine Anne Elliot, and Rupert Penry-Jones as the dashing... Continue Reading →
VALUABLE "I cannot rate her beauty as you do," said he; "but she is a pretty little creature, and I am inclined to think very well of her disposition. Her character depends upon those she is with; but in good hands she will turn out a valuable woman."Mr. Knightley on Harriet Smith, Emma, Chapter 8... Continue Reading →
WICKED Do not oblige him to read any more. Have mercy on him, tell him the truth, and make him an apology. He and I should not in the least agree, of course, in our ideas of novels and heroines. Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked; but there is some... Continue Reading →
TACITURNÂ "Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" "Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as... Continue Reading →
 7 DAYS TO PERSUASION ON PBS Sunday, the 13th of January, at 9:00pm Mark your calendars and set your watches for the premiere of the latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel of love and redemption, Persuasion, staring Sally Hawkins as Anne Elliot. Presented by those great folks at Masterpiece Classics. Further details can... Continue Reading →
Do not be surprised at finding Uncle Henry acquainted with my having another ready for publication. I could not say No when he asked me, but he knows nothing more of it. You will not like it, so you need not be impatient. You may perhaps like the heroine, as she is almost too good... Continue Reading →
HORRID "Dear creature! How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you." "Have you, indeed! How glad I am! What are they all?" "I will read you... Continue Reading →
Sense & Sensibility 2008 mystery child Mild spoilers. The new BBC production of Sense & Sensibility has aired in England and I promise not to speak of it again until after our US airing on March 30th & April 6th, but I am feeling silly tonight and the photo of this young chap just gave... Continue Reading →
