Jane’s ‘Dear Dr. Johnson’*

I direct you to my Bygone Books Blog for a short post on Samuel Johnson with news of an exhibit at the Huntington Library… [* from Letter 50, to Cassandra Austen.  Le Faye edition, p. 121]

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Guest Post ~ Author Maya Slater

Gentle Readers:   Maya Slater has penned a guest post for us on her book The Private Diary of Mr Darcy  – and as I mention in my previous post, it is quite an entertaining read!  Thank you Ms. Slater for sharing your thoughts with us [and those of Mr. Darcy!]         INTRODUCING:  [...]

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Maya Slater’s ‘The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy’

In my previous very short  review of Mr. Darcy’s Diary by Maya Slater, I make mention that I liked this book more than any of the other what-Mr. Darcy-was-thinking sequels [not that I have read them all.]  The American edition published by Norton is to be released on June 15th [as always, check with your local independent [...]

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In My Mailbox ~ ‘Jane Austen’s Regency World’

      The latest issue [ May / June 2009, No. 39] of Jane Austen’s Regency World showed up in my mailbox the other day ~ always a happy occasion ~ and cram-packed with great articles:                   GUEST ESSAY-   Dr. Andrew Norman on “Jane’s Demon Lover”  [...]

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‘Pride & Prejudice’ ~ The Comic Book [part 2]

  Marvel Comics has made the first issue of their Pride & Prejudice Comic Book available for free viewing online: See the Marvel Comics site and select “Open” for the complete issue.     And issue No. 2 has just been released on May 13, 2009 and is available for $3.99. THE STORY: Vanity and [...]

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Book Review ~ ‘North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell [with special thanks to Richard Armitage]

I think I must be the only costume-drama-loving-female in all of America who did not see the 2004 (2005 USA) adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South – where my head was that year I do not know – and add to that a further confession of never having read the book! – I am [...]

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A Bit of Armitage with your Heyer?

A recent find:  Richard Armitage reading Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester, to be released in the UK in July… The audiobook is due for release on 1st July.  Written in 1957, ‘Sylvester’ is one of the most popular of Heyer’s Regency romances. Witty and romantic, its heroine is Phoebe Marlow, who flees her home to avoid marrying [...]

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Austen on the Block ~ the Results, May 6, 2009

The results of the Bloomsbury Auction that took place on May 6, 2009 in New York have been posted online.  [click here to see my previous post on this auction] The Austen titles sold as follows [sale price in brackets]: 127. [AUSTEN, Jane] Thomas Hazlehurst… Portrait miniature of Elizabeth Bridges … estimate: $2000 – $3000 [...]

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Follow-up ~ A Talk on ‘Persuasion’

[see our follow-up to the talk below...] Kellogg-Hubbard Library,  135 Main St, Montpelier, Vermont Wednesday, May 6, 2009 7pm Powers of “Persuasion” a Vermont Humanities Council First Wednesdays 2008-2009 Classic Book Program by Bennington College Professor April Bernard In her final superb novel, Persuasion, Jane Austen combined social satire with profound feeling. Why does this “fairy [...]

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In My Mailbox ~ ‘The Female Spectator’

I am always thrilled to find in my mailbox the latest issue [Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter 2009] of The Female Spectator, the newsletter of the Chawton House Library.  The first article by Helen Cole, a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, is on “The  Minerva Press and the Illustrations of the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel” [...]

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