Bishop’s PRIDE

Two Saturdays ago (March 14th, to be exact) I ventured up to Bishop’s University (Lennoxville, Quebec) for a Pride & Prejudice Weekend – a symposium, thanks to English department professor Claire Grogan; a delicious ‘Jane Austen’s Cream Tea’ at Uplands; a Pride & Prejudice play, adapted by drama professor George Rideout; and an Austen-era Sunday [...]

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Boston and Austen

Boston in the Austen Era: A Lady and a Maid. This special “Women’s History Month” presentation takes place at Waltham’s elegant Federal period Gore Mansion at 7:00 p.m. on Friday 27 March 2009. This Chautauqua performance feature “fact-based, first-person” costumed-interpreters who focus on life stories — in this case the life stories of two women [...]

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Pride & Prejudice ~ the Comic Book

Late to the table, but here is a reminder about the first issue of the Marvel Comic’s Pride & Prejudice  due out April 1st.  See the story and images from the first issue at Marvel.com : Two-time Rita Award-Winner Nancy Butler and acclaimed artist Hugo Petrus bring PRIDE & PREJUDICE #1 to life—and we’ve got an exclusive [...]

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Novels & Letters (1906) now complete

FINALLY! Internet Archive now has all twelve volumes of the 1906 edition entitled “The Novels & Letters of Jane Austen”. Especially, I was happy to see the second part of Mansfield Park (the illustration is the volume’s frontispiece). The search is still on to provide our audience with the missing volume of Pride & Prejudice‘s [...]

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For the Fashion-Conscious Lover of Handbags ~

Here is a quick link to a very informative fashion-related post with illustrations: ‘A History of Purses and Handbags’ at Rubell’s Antiques [scroll down through the post] [photo from Rubell's Antiques Blog]

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Book Review ~ ‘Whom the Gods Love’

Julian Kestrel is back in this third Kate Ross mystery, Whom the Gods Love [Viking 1995], again faced with a murder the authorities cannot solve.  The larger than life Alexander Falkland, one of the leaders of The Quality, young, handsome, with a beautiful wife, elegant home and many admirers, is found murdered in his study, [...]

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An Austen-Inspired Author ~

Robert Goolrick, author of the upcoming book A Reliable Wife, has this to say about Jane Austen: If anything, I was inspired by earlier writers. I’m always inspired by Jane Austen, curiously enough. She has a great thing that she does, which is her novels are about complicated, romantic situations in which all the happiness [...]

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Discord in Austen Land

Here is an interesting article at the Guardian.co.uk about a new book on Austen by Claire Harman (author of the 2001 biography Fanny Burney) ~ Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World, to be published next month, and a conflict with the academic writings of Professor Kathryn Sutherland, author of the ground-breaking 2005 Jane Austen’s Textual [...]

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Sir Walter Scott on Austen ~ March 14, 1826

Sir Walter Scott wrote in his journal on March 14, 1826: I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the last few days, by reading over Lady Morgan’s novel of _O’Donnel_,[221] which has some striking and beautiful passages of situation and description, and in the comic part is very rich and entertaining. I do not [...]

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On My Booklist ~ ‘Jane Austen & Marriage’

A new book alert:  Jane Austen & Marriage by Hazel Jones, to be published in July 2009, is now available for pre-order.   Jane Austen & Marriage by Hazel Jones Continuum Books, 2009  “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a [...]

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