An Austen Intern Reports In from The Jane Austen Centre: Week 1

Austenprose is very pleased to present our first feature columnist, Virginia Claire Tharrington, straight from the trenches of Austen central, The Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England where she is interning until December. Join her every Saturday as she shares with us her incredible adventure that every Janeite, and even Austen's heroine Catherine Morland would envy! Jane Austen once... Continue Reading →

The Austen Tattler: News & Gossip on the Blogosphere

"All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it." Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Around the blogosphere for the week of September 1st The first reviews for Jane Odiwe's Lydia Bennet's Story are in, and honestly not a suprise! Austen-esque author Marsha Altman is featured at... Continue Reading →

Jane Austen Retold: Reaching Young Readers, Part Two

  "They have both," said she, "been deceived, I dare say, in some way or other, of which we can form no idea. Interested people have perhaps misrepresented each to the other. It is, in short, impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either... Continue Reading →

Jane Austen Retold: Reaching Young Readers, Part One

   "I dare say you will find him very agreeable." "Heaven forbid! That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil."  Charlotte Lucas and Elizabeth Bennet on dancing with Mr. Darcy, Pride & Prejudice, Chapter 18 INTERVIEW... Continue Reading →

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