Read my interview with Professor Brownstein here: Part I and Part II You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s June Meeting ~ ‘Why Jane Austen?’ ~ with Rachel Brownstein* What do we want from Jane...
Auction Alert! Christie’s Sale 5334: Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 13 June 2012, London, King Street Lot 169: Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. With a Biographical Notice ...
This cover to Jane Austen’s Emma has been short-listed by the V&A in the “Book Jacket and Cover” category for its 2012 Illustration Awards. The cover was designed by Petra Borne...
Wishing all a Happy Mother’s Day! - [you either are one and / or have one!] Vintage Postcard, USA @1944, No. 5013 A few words on Mother’s Day: [text from Wikipedia] The United States celebrates...
Dear Readers: I welcome today Chris Sandrawich of the Jane Austen Society, Midlands, who has kindly provided me with the text of his essay written for Transactions 22 (2011), the JAS Midlands publica...
Gentle Readers: I welcome today Theodora Ziolkowski, * a student at the University of Vermont, who attended our JASNA-Vermont event on April 15, a talk on “Jane Austen’s Sanditon” by UVM ...
You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s June Meeting ~ ‘Why Jane Austen?’ ~ with Rachel Brownstein* What do we want from Jane Austen? ~ Why do we want it? ~ and What do we get from the movies, t...
This just in from Beth at Sourcebooks! – get your camera ready and off you go!… Hi there! In the June memoir, All Roads Lead to Austen the author Amy Elizabeth Smith took Jane Austen’s wo...
Exciting news for those interested in Textiles: The Center for Social Research on Old Textiles [CSROT] is a research project founded in 1986 in France whose purpose is to contribute to the critical s...
Coming soon to your mailbox! ~ the new issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World (May/June 2012, No 57): Mozart’s Sister: a stunning new film tells of the talented musician eclipsed by a famous brother Oo...
Congratulations! to Danielle, who has won the random drawing for The Perfect Visit by Stuart Bennett. The interview with Mr. Bennett can be found at these two posts: Part I, and Part II. Danielle, pl...
Today I again welcome Stuart Bennett, for Part II of our interview where we discuss his new book The Perfect Visit, a time-travel tale, a romance, and a pure escape into the Regency world of Jane Aus...
The Perfect Visit (Longbourn Press, 2011) is, no way to say it otherwise, a perfect treat – who of us would not want to spend a few days [or pull an all-nighter!] in the company of a time-travelling ...
From the SunLive website: New Zealand is a tad far, so had to share this with you …. Two damaged books destined for the recycling bin have been given a glamorous new life as a Jane Austen inspi...
The Female Spectator, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 2012) , the newsletter of the Chawton House Library is out! Here are the contents to whet your appetite: “Some Treasures in the Chawton House Library ...
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey via Marvel Comics – all five issues are now released [No. 5 came out on March 14, 2012]~ Get thee hence to your nearest comic book shop! – Here are ...
News from the JASNA-Greater Chicago Region: The Board of Directors of the Greater Chicago Region is pleased to announce the launch of our newly revamped website: http://www.jasnachicago.org/ Along w...
One of the funnier lines in Emma is when Mr. Knightley asks Emma to call him “George” after he has proposed to her. We of course know he is named George because the narrator tells us so, but while we...
You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s April Meeting ~ How to Love ‘Sanditon’ ~ with Eric Lindstrom* A celebration of Jane Austen’s last unfinished work: Many readers find it dif...
I was saddened today to read about the death of Vera Quin. A message was sent to various JASNA contacts from Louise West, curator of the Jane Austen House Museum in Chawton. Claire Bellanti, Margare...
If you have seen the Friday Video on the Two Nerdy History Girls blog today, you will find this great short on the background to the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster that is now seen and h...
Last August, the Governor’s House in Hyde Park Vermont hosted an “in character” Jane Austen Weekend. One of the participants, Tess, who appeared as Miss Darcy, has prepared a delig...
… Karen Field, who commented on 2-24-12 at 8:04 pm. Congratulations Karen! you have won a copy of Jane Austen in Love: An Entertainment by Elsa Solender. If you have a kindle [you mention tha...
Reminder! - today is the last day to comment on the post about Elsa Solender’s Jane Austen in Love: An Entertainment. Go here: http://tinyurl.com/73grlcc and post your comment to be included i...
I have just heard from a friend of mine, Chris Sandrawich, membership secretary of the Jane Austen Society Midlands Branch, and his concern about the threat to the “Library Passage” in Worthing. Thi...
Coming soon to your mailbox! In the new issue (No. 56, March / April 2012): Archaeologists excavate the site of Steventon rectory Romance of the East: how Regency travellers were fascinated by Islam...
Browsing around an antique shop last week, I spotted a boxed set of six Pimpernel coasters, each coaster’s image an engraving of a British Heritage site in Kent, and all bordered by red and gold band...
We welcome today Elsa Solender, former JASNA president, now author of Jane Austen in Love: An Entertainment. The book is currently available as a kindle ebook, and I heartily recommend that you downl...
Scrolling through the “guide” on my television the other day, in dire need of pure entertainment, I came upon the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, though barely recognizable by its description &...
Well, I suppose most of the readers of this blog are also obsessed with Downton Abbey, despite it being a century removed from our own favorite Austen-related time period (Austen reference #1 and co...
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