Happy New Year!!

[Not quite Regency, but lovely all the same!]   Kelly & I wish you all a very Happy New Year!! Cheers, from Janeite Kelly & Janeite Deb

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Round-up ~ All Things Austen

I have a mix of tidbits I have been gathering over the past week or so, awaiting a moment to post them…so apologies for late news or repeated items! *Visit the Joanna Waugh blog: Ms. Waugh, author of regency historicals [the latest is Blind Fortune] has several posts on the Christrmas traditions during the Regency period *A lovely post [...]

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A Gift

“Happy Christmas” from Jane Austen in Vermont! Our gift today shares short comments from a reader of Austen in 1836. Thanks to R.W. Chapman, we possess the reactions of family and friends that Jane Austen herself collected (printed in his volume of Austen Juvenilia). Here – in the diary of Ellen Tollet of Betley Hall [...]

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Merry Christmas One & All!

  A very Merry Christmas to everyone! From Kelly & Deb at Jane Austen in Vermont

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Dickens and his “A Christmas Carol”

A Christmas Carol was first published on December 19, 1843.  I have posted a bit of information on the book on my Bygone Books blog, and so direct you there…and wish you all very Happy Holidays!

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Mary Russell Mitford and Jane Austen

Many Austen fans know well the description of Jane Austen by writer Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855):      “À propos to novels, I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman; that mamma knew all her family very intimately; and that she herself is an old maid (I beg her pardon – I [...]

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On the Block ~ Byron’s Hair

Sothebys has just published the results of today’s auction [December 17, 2008, Sale L08411, London] of English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, with a final take of 901,913 GBP!   Literature by the likes of Shakespeare, Byron, Milton, Keats, Dickens, and Beatrix Potter seems to be alive and well (but alas! no Austen today!)  Here is the result [...]

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Jane Austen’s Letters~ Breaking news!

JASNA has posted the Winter edition of Persuasions On-Line [Vol. 29, No.1], and a most important article is included:  ”List of Annotations in the Bellas Copy of  Lord Brabourne’s  Letters of Jane Austen.” Edith Lank has compiled all the annotations in her copy of Lord Brabourne’s Letters, the notes largely written by the daughter of [...]

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Happy Birthday Jane!

Today is Jane Austen’s birthday, 233 years ago!  To quote her father in his letter to Mrs. Walter on Dec 17, 1775: “You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our old age grown such bad reckoners but so it was, for [...]

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Buy Local!

I am posting the following from Roy Blount, Jr., the President of the Authors Guild [see the original post at Authors Guild.].  It is an all-out call to BUY BOOKS this holiday, especially from your local bookshop: Holiday Message from Roy Blount, Jr.: Buy Books from your Local Bookstore,  Now December 11, 2008. I’ve been [...]

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