Online Discussion: Sense & Sensibility

from the JASNA.org website: Masterpiece Classic on PBS will rebroadcast Sense and Sensibility in two parts, on February 1 and 8, 2009. Check local listings for the schedule in your area. Professor Joan Ray, JASNA Past President, will lead an online discussion about the adaptation February 2-13 on the Barnes and Noble Classics Book Club [...]

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January 28, 1813 ~ Pride & Prejudice Published!

It was on this day, happy day indeed! ~  in 1813, that Pride & Prejudice “by the author of Sense & Sensibility” was published by T. Egerton, London.  Austen received her own copy on January 27, as she states in her letter of January 29,  ”I have got my own darling Child from London.”   [LeFaye, Letter [...]

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Edith Wharton ~ January 24, 1862

I direct you yet again to my Bygone Books Blog for a short post with links on Edith Wharton.

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Austen’s Manuscripts

Later Manuscripts [The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen], edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree, Cambridge Universitry Press, January 2009, is now available.  Priced at $130.  but weighs in at a hefty 872 pages. Contents include:  Austen’s fiction:  Lady Susan, The Watson’s, and Sanditon  Jane Austen on Fiction, to include her letters [...]

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Mr. Darcy Portrait Sells

The Darcy portrait of Colin Firth that we all wanted in our very own living rooms, has sold at auction for £12,000, nearly double the estimated value; very nice really… the money all goes to charity. “This painting sold for double its estimated value for the simple reason that the series so captured the heart [...]

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Happy Birthday, JASNA-Vermont…

A year today – on 22 January 2008 – our Vermont Region received its official ‘welcome’ to the North American Jane Austen realm! So… Happy Birthday JASNA-Vermont! It’s been a great year – and some thoughts on our activities can be found written down here, on this blog. We had an appreciative (large!) crowd for our first meeting, which [...]

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Edgar Allan Poe ~ January 19, 1809

I again direct you to my Bygone Books Blog for a celebration of the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849.  Though you may wonder what this has to do with Jane Austen, and I agree that the link is tenuous as best [though indeed, is Emma not a mystery??]   But I did find this link to the [...]

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Anne Bronte ~ January 17, 1820

I refer you to my Bygone Books Blog which celebrates today the birthday of Anne Bronte [1820-1849], author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

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For Sale in Hong Kong: Anne Sharp’s “Emma”

The 1816 first edition of Emma that Jane Austen signed and gave to her friend Anne Sharp [thought to be the inspiration for the character of Mrs. Weston] will be available for sale at this weekend’s International Antiquarian Book Fair in Hong Kong [January 17-19, 2009].   It will cost you a mere HK$3.95 million.  See the full [...]

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Book Review ~ “A Broken Vessel”

Julian Kestrel returns in this second mystery by Kate Ross [Viking 1994], A Broken Vessel.  Several months after his amateur but superior sleuthing at Bellegarde, home of the Fontclairs, [see Ross's first book, Cut to the Quick, and my review] Kestrel is again thrown into the mix of murder and mayhem when the sister of [...]

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