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Gentle Readers, Vic from Jane Austen's World and I both freely admit to being passionate Jane Austen fans, which tends to infiltrate our everyday world in ways that have us viewing friends and ourselves through Austen's unique prism. Here is a bit of fun today for your amusement: LA: Vic and I were chatting on... Continue Reading →
Gentle Readers: in celebration of the ‘Pride and Prejudice without Zombies’ event over the next month, I have asked several of my fellow Jane Austen bloggers to share their knowledge and interest in Austen’s most popular novel. Today, please welcome guest blogger Vic from Jane Austen’s World who shares with us her extensive knowledge of... Continue Reading →
Gentle Readers: in celebration of the ‘Pride and Prejudice without Zombies’ event over the next month, I have asked several of my fellow Jane Austen bloggers to share their knowledge and interest in Austen’s most popular novel. Today, please welcome guest blogger Vic from Jane Austen’s World who shares with us her extensive knowledge of... Continue Reading →
Gentle Readers: in celebration of the ‘Pride and Prejudice without Zombies’ event over the next month, I have asked several of my fellow Jane Austen bloggers to share their knowledge and interest in Austen’s most popular novel. Today, please welcome guest blogger Vic from Jane Austen’s World who shares with us her extensive knowledge of... Continue Reading →
“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 April 12th - 18th, 2010 Hot News of the Week: New author Jenni James of Northanger Alibi, a modern retelling of Northanger Abbey influenced by Twilight, lands the Austenesque book publicity coup... Continue Reading →
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?” Another year in the Austen blogosphere has passed and I’m still here musing and muddling about on my favorite author and other related Regency folly and nonsense! Milestones are a great time to look back and... 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 →
Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2009 begins today September 14th and runs through the 18th. It is an annual event set aside in celebration of the online book blogging community and recognition all those hard working book readers/bloggers. You can read my initial announcement for all the details. Here are few blogs that did not make... Continue Reading →
"All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it." Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Jane Austen around the blogosphere for the week of February 1st Hot News of the week Definitely the upcoming release of the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which was taken the Internet... Continue Reading →
if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad Beechen Cliff, the Arts, and Natural Surroundings at Jane Austen's World Take a walk through the countryside of Bath with Ms. Place (Vic) as she continues to explore heroine Catherine Morland's experience in Bath with her excellent... Continue Reading →
if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad Lower Assembly Rooms and Bath Society at Jane Austen's World Discover the Lower Rooms in Bath where Catherine Morland the heroine of Northanger Abbey is introduced by the Master of Ceremonies James King to "a very... Continue Reading →
if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad Dancing in Regency Bath: Upper Assembly Rooms at Jane Austen's World Discover all the social customs and proper etiquette of dancing in Regency Bath, in this excellent article by Ms. Place (Vic), Dancing in Regency Bath: Upper Assembly... Continue Reading →
