Hot off the Presses!! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, No. 68

The new issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World is “out”!

New issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World!

The March/April 2014 issue [No. 68] of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is now published and will be mailed to subscribers this week. In it you can read about:

William Beckford, the remarkable author and architect who led a somewhat sordid life
Joanna Trollope on her rewriting of Sense & Sensibility for HarperCollins’s Austen Project
Mary Russell Mitford, the writer who sought to emulate Jane Austen
How Jane Austen supported her fellow writers by subscribing to their books
The story of Julie Klassen, marketing assistant turned best-selling Regency romance novelist

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Plus: News, Letters, Book Reviews and information from Jane Austen Societies in the US and the UK.

And: Test your knowledge with our exclusive Jane Austen quiz, and read about the shocking behaviour of our latest Regency Rogue

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Friday Follow: Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, No.64

Happy Friday everyone! Huzzah! A new issue of our favorite Jane Austen-inspired magazine Jane Austen’s World is now available.

Did you know that you can now read it digitally on your iPad, NOOK, Kindle or other tablet devices? This was the best news possible for me and I did the happy dance all day.

I am sharing with you Deb Barnum of Jane Austen in Vermont’s excellent announcement of the release of the new issue. Enjoy!

Cheers,

Laurel Ann

Jane Austen in Vermont

The July/August 2013 (No 64) edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is now out – watch out for it in your mailbox over the next few weeks. In the new issue you can read about:

Austenland: we speak to Jerusha Hess about her new film depicting one woman’s amazing hunt for her Mr Darcy
Read our exclusive preview of this year’s Jane Austen Festival in Bath
The Countess of Jersey, serial adulteress and debauchee is this issue’s Regency Rogue
Letters from Jane: a look at Austen’s correspondence
Plump cheeks and thick ankles: Jane Austen used appearance to size up her characters
A social reformer and a place called Harmony: the tale of Robert Owen

Subscribe today to Jane Austen’s Regency World, the full-colour, must-read, glossy magazine for fans of the world’s favourite author – delivered to your doorstep every two months direct from Bath, England. Plus reports from…

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Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine Nov/Dec 2012 Preview

Hot off the presses is the November/December 2012 (No 60) edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, the ultimate Austen reading indulgence. Here are the featured articles!

Some great Christmas gift ideas for the Jane Austen fan in your life
You shall go to the dance – public and private balls in Jane Austen’s time
How keeping a bawdyhouse could be a tough business
Baiting, coursing and fishing: blood sports were big business in the Georgian era
Looking at Jane’s use of fashion accessories in Emma
The life of Sir Thomas Bernard, a prominent philanthropist
Jane in the Garden of England

This new issue also includes reports from the recent Jane Austen Festival in Bath and the JASNA AGM in Brooklyn; news, letters, book reviews and much, much more!

Need a seasonal gift?

A subscription to Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is the perfect gift for friends and family who enjoy Jane Austen. To subscribe simply follow this link to their website and have your gift mailed six times a year from Bath, England

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Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine Nov/Dec 2011 Preview

Hot off the presses is the November/December 2011 (No 54) edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, the ultimate Austen reading indulgence. Here are the featured articles!

Stunning pictures from the Jane Austen Festival in Bath
Review of P&P: The Musical live from its staging in New York
Reports from JASNA’s AGM in Fort Worth, Texas
The Night Before Christmas: Georgian literature from the US
Choose the perfect seasonal gift for the Austen fan in your life
A new series of the Georgian courtroom drama Garrow’s Law
Do the men in Sense & Sensibility disappoint?

‘I sexed-up P&P’

Andrew Davies at the JASNA conference in Fort Worth, Texas

The man who made the famous Colin Firth adaptation of Pride & Prejudice told the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual conference in Fort Worth, Texas, how he “looked for opportunities to get the characters out of their clothes whenever possible”. Read the full report in the new issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine – out this week

Plus all the latest Jane Austen news, reviews, reports from JAS and JASNA, quiz and competition.

Need a seasonal gift?

A subscription to Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is the perfect gift for friends and family who enjoy Jane Austen. To subscribe simply click here and have your gift mailed six times a year from Bath, England

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine ~ Issue No. 53 (via Jane Austen in Vermont)

Thanks Deb at Jane Austen in Vermont for sharing the news! Look forward to reading the new issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World.

News direct from the publisher – the latest issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, No. 53 September / October 2011 is in the mail!

KATE MIDDLETON AND JANE AUSTEN ~ How the Duchess is related to our favourite author STETSONS FOR JASNA ~ The AGM is comingTexas – and here’s a preview of all the exciting events in store GORGEOUS GAINSBOROUGH ~ A new exhibition of the portraitist’s landscapes THE MEDICAL REGENCY ~ Illness and death in Ja … Read More

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Austen Tattler: News and Gossip on the Net: Issue No 10

“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31

April 19-25, 2010

Hot News of the Week:

Austenesque author Laurie Viera Rigler’s addiction to Jane Austen has inspired two best selling books: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict. Now she can add an original comedy web series on Babelgum.com to her Janeite accolades. Read all about Sex and the Austen Girl on her blog and tune in next month for the first episode! Congrats Laurie. Brava!

Noteworthy:

Brooding Brontës replace Jane Austen as the bonnet drama remakes of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights return to the BBC and Film4 in the UK next season. Jane considered too tame and the Brontës are right for the times!

Interview of Austenesque author Amanda Grange (Mr. Darcy’s Diary, et all) at Dark Angel Review & Writing Blog about her experience getting published for the first time.

The Republic of Pemberley continues its group read of Pride and Prejudice through May 23rd, 2010

Great deal on bargain priced editions of Amanda Grange’s Austen Heroes Series at Amazon.co.uk & Amazon.com

Get local with Jane — news from AustenBlog on local Austen events

Julie at Austenonly discusses the new quilt exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and ties in Jane Austen and her famous quilt that reside at Chawton Cottage.

Interview of Skylar Hamilton Burris, Austenesque author of Conviction at Austenesque Reviews

Jane Austen’s World discusses activitist Caroline Norton and a Woman’s Legal Rights in the 19th-century

JASNA members watch for the spring issue of JASNA News in your mailbox this week. News on the Annual General Meeting in Portland in October, a great book review by Diana Birchall of The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet and part three of Jane Goes Digital by Mags of AustenBlog

Entertainment:

Just for fun: video mashup of Iron Man vs. Bridget Jones!

Inside news on the new indie movie Pride and Prejudice (2010) currently being filmed in Colorado at Pride and Prejudice 2005 Blog

Anil Kapoor’s Aisha the new Bollywood modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Emma starring his daughter Sonam Kapoor in the title role is set for an August 6th, 2010 release in India

Announcements:

Preview of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine’s May/June 2010 issue

Austenesque author Beth Pattillo’s new book The Dashwood Sisters Tell All: A Novel with Sense and Sensibility

GirleBooks announces a new print edition of The Sylph, by Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire with foreword by Heather Carrol of The Duchess of Devonshire’s Gossip Gude to the 18th-century. Join the group read of The Sylph that begins on May 1st.

The paperback edition of Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict, by Laurie Viera Rigler goes on sale on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 just in time for summer beach reading.

The restored & remastered DVD edition of Pride and Prejudice 1995 goes on sale on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. Huzzah! Now we can see the dripping Darcy emerging from the pond with more clarity and finer detail then every before!

Check out the new cover of Bespelling Jane Austen a new Austen inspired paranormal novel featuring four novellas from authors Mary Balogh, Janet Mullany, Susan Krinard, and Colleen Gleason. Very classy!

Book/Movie Reviews:

Until next week, happy Jane sighting

Laurel Ann

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Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine May/June 2010 Preview

Hot off the presses is the May/June 2010 (No 45) edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World, the official magazine of the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England and the ultimate Austen reading indulgence. Spotlighted in this issue is Bright Star, the 2009 movie based on the relationship of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Here are the featured articles:

Bright Star (cover story):

Jane Campion’s 2009 film about John Keats’ short life and Fanny Brawne his true love has nominated for an Oscar. Staring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, the setting and costumes are quite lovely and a treat for Janeites.

British election special:

Remembering the men and women who died in the Peterloo massacre in St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, England on 16 August 1819.

Woman-to-woman:

When the boundary between love and friendship became blurred

Maggie Lane:

Austen scholar, author and featured columnist Maggie Lane discusses the art of reading aloud in Jane Austen’s time

Eleanor Coade:

The woman who developed artificial stone

Clapperboard tours:

The film buffs guide to the streets of Bath

Plus:

Book reviews: new publications by Carrie Bebris, Jane Odiwe and Tracey Chevalier

News: from JAS and JASNA, and all the latest Jane Austen news and readers’ letters

Jane Austen’s Regency World is published on May 1 and is available by subscription from www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk

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Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine Jan/Feb 2010 preview

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 Austen with Iris Murdoch

Dr Gillian Dooley examines similar traits in Austen’s Mansfield Park and Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Jane’s civil rogue

Maggie Lane, consultant editor of JARW, discusses John Murray, Jane’s publisher

When the bubble burst:

the devestation caused by the South Sea Bubble, by Joanna Brown

Three Creole Ladies

Paul Bethel on Empress Josephon, Fanny Nisbet and Jane Leigh Perrot

Prince of Prints

Inside Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts, by Sue Wilkes

Queen of Science

The tale of Mary Somerville, by Nelly Morrison

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Plus: a new Austen Quiz, book reviews, My Jane Austen (Sandy Welch, who adapted Emma for the BBC) and news from JAS and JASNA.

Win a Jane Austen audiobook set from Naxos in which we swooned over and featured on our holiday gift wish list.

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Coming up in the March/April 2010 issue is a music special: What was on Jane Austen’s iPod with a complementary CD with every copy, featuring music from Bath in Jane Austen’s time.

Also check out the December Jane Austen Centre newsletter online and sign-up for your own monthly issue for free.

Enjoy!

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Countdown to My Top 10 Jane Austen Inspired Holiday Gifts 2008: Number 2

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