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MARY ELLEN BERTOLINI (Middlebury College) “THE GRACE TO DESERVE: WEIGHING MERIT IN JANE AUSTEN’S PERSUASION“   Following Waterloo, rich naval officers vied with impoverished aristocrats for position and importance. Against this political drama, Jane Austen unfolds her story of Anne Elliot, who pines for Frederick Wentworth, the Naval Captain she rejected. Wentworth’s final words in [...]

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Zombies & Aliens in Austenland??

This is just too good not to print the whole thing right here.  Much has been made the past few weeks about the zombied-out Pride & Prejudice and Elton John’s latest foray into a literary alien-infested monster-land – I’ve not commented on it, just  taking it all in and wondering what to make of it [...]

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We are “Excessively Diverted”! and very humbled…

    Ok, this is tough…  the Jane Austen in Vermont blog has been honored with the Excessively Diverting Blog Award by TWO other blogs:  Catherine Delors at her Versailles and More blog and Jane Odiwe at her Jane Austen Sequels blog.  So does this mean we need to come up with FOURTEEN blogs to honor [...]

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Food for Thought: Austen Astrology

Does the following sound familiar? Remind you of anyone?? Aquarians “basically possess strong and attractive personalities. They fall into two principle types: one shy, sensitive, gentle and patient; the other exuberant, lively and exhibitionist, sometimes hiding their considerable depths of their character under a cloak of frivolity. …. In spite of the often intensely magnetic [...]

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Weekly Geeks # 6 – What’s in a Name?

Here is a new, thoughtful book-related game to play.  Weekly Geeks offers up each week a theme to muse on and share with other “geeks” – “One week might be ‘catch up on your library books week’  and the next might be ‘redecorate your blog week’ or ‘organize your challenges’ week or ‘catch up on your reviews [...]

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“Prada & Prejudice” ~ a preview

 A new Pride & Prejudice knock-off, this time for the younger set and with all the proper ingredients of a rousing romantic plot, a time-travel adventure, and a setting in our favorite place, Regency England.  The book, Prada & Prejudice, by Mandy Hubbard, and due out June 11, 2009, is what one author calls “Pride and [...]

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“Pride & Prejudice” Cover Art

Check out this post at Belle of the Books ~ she has pulled together a variety of Pride & Prejudice covers that have been published through the years…. vote on your favorite!

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An “Elizabeth & Darcy” Getaway Anyone??

The latest news of  a literary nature – and where our Dear Jane figures in – is the opening of the Nora Roberts’s Inn Boonsboro in Boonsboro, Maryland on February 17, 2009.   Ms. Roberts, the author of over 170 novels (also under the name of J.D. Robb), has been renovating this seven bedroom bed [...]

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Tidbits

Some short, little things: Read (finally! I’ve owned it for months) the first in the news Rhys Bowen series: Her Royal Spyness. It is a cute and quaint 1930s mystery with Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 34th in line to the throne. And one man she meets along the way: Darcy O’Mara. Hmm… wonder where those names [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day!!

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