Elegant Arts Society invites you…

New Haven, Connecticut is the scene for the Elegant Arts Society’s Regency Assembly, taking place on Saturday, October 17; further events on Sunday, October 18: “Please join the Ladies and Gentlemen of The Elegant Arts Society for a weekend of the delightful dances of the era of Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lords Nelson and Byron, and Beau [...]

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Book Giveaway ~ and the winner is….!

Corinne!  Congratulations on winning the book giveaway of Juliet Archer’s The Importance of Being Emma!  Please email me your address and contact information -  the publisher Choc-Lit will send you the book directly. Many thanks to everyone for the great questions and comments – and especially to Juliet Archer for her in-depth responses that gave [...]

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Last Chance! ‘The Importance of Being Emma’ ~ Book Giveaway

Reminder to all:  the deadline for posting comments and / or queries to author Juliet Archer to win a free copy of The Importance of Being Emma is midnight Friday September 25!  Posts to comment on: Interview with author Juliet Archer, Part 1 Interview with Ms. Archer, part 2. My review of The Importance of [...]

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You are Cordially Invited to an Afternoon with Professor Joan Klingel Ray!

A reminder to all who happen to be in lovely autumnal Vermont on Sunday September 27, to join us for our celebration of Jane Austen’s move to Chawton!  We are hosting former JASNA President and current President of the North American Friends of Chawton House Library Joan Klingel Ray. Author of Jane Austen for Dummies, Prof. [...]

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An Austen Brothers & Sisters Bibliography

Take a quick look at the JASNA website where a select bibliography on ”Austen’s Siblings in Fact and Fiction in JASNA Publications”  has been posted ~ all in preparation for the upcoming AGM in Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love.  All the articles are in JASNA publications, many with online links. Here is a taste to start your [...]

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“Emma” on the Auction Block

I entreat you to visit my Bygone Books blog for information on TWO first editions of Jane Austen’s Emma coming soon to the auction block …   [Posted by Deb]

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Juliet Archer’s “Emma”, Part 2 ~ Book Giveaway!

Life certainly gets in the way of blogging! – here is the promised Part 2 of my interview with Juliet Archer, author of The Importance of Being Emma, and a confessed “19th-century mind in a 21st-century body.”  [see Part 1 of this interview here].  Please see below for the book giveaway info… we welcome your queries [...]

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Interview with Juliet Archer ~ Author of ‘The Importance of Being Emma’

Today we welcome author Juliet Archer, author of The Importance of Being Emma, [Choc-Lit, 2008].  Ms. Archer, who says she is a 19th-century mind in a 21st-century body [though she adds that some days it is the other way around!] joins us today from London to talk about her very humorous modernization of Jane Austen’s [...]

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‘Bright Star’ ~ “perfectly chaste and insanely sexy”

  … so says A.O. Scott of “Bright Star”,  Jane Campion’s biopic love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne.  See his review in today’s New York Times [which has more references to Jane Austen than if it was about one of HER novels!] Click here for the trailer [it is just lovely!] Click here for information and photographs at IMDB [...]

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Stay Tuned! ~ An Interview with Author Juliet Archer

  Last week I posted a review of Juliet Archer’s The Importance of Being Emma  [you can read my review here] ~  tomorrow I will post the first part of a two-part interview with Ms. Archer where she will share with us her thoughts on writing this modernization of Jane Austen for the 21st Century, the first in a series.  [...]

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