Happy New Year one and all!

My hat’s off to you as we trek into a new decade!   My gift to you is a link to a new Regency novel being penned online.  Titled Good Intentions, author Catherine Spencer calls it a “homage to Jane Austen” in which she tries ” to duplicate the tone and sensibility of the nineteenth [...]

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A Book-lover’s Confession ~

Ok, 500 lashes with a wet-noodle [or maybe more??] - visit my Bygone Books Blog to see why, but a hint – it starts with the letter “K”…

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

    A Very Merry Christmas to everyone! ~ From all of us at Jane Austen in Vermont! [Image is a vintage postcard from the 1920s] [Posted by Deb]

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A Trifle for your Holiday Table

One of my favorite recipes for the holidays is a trifle, that mix of biscuits, cream, and fruit, that makes as much a table decoration as a delicious dessert.  Here is the recipe from The Jane Austen Cookbook by Maggie Black and Deirdre Le Faye [British Museum Press, 1995]  The first part of the recipe [...]

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All Things Austen ~ a Web Round-up!

I have been out-of-town, visiting the Big Apple and the Austen exhibit at the Morgan Library – this was fabulous! -  I will report on it in a later post, but for now, there is much to make note of in the ever-busy world of Jane Austen, so will summarize as best I can – you [...]

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Happy Birthday Miss Austen! ~ 234 never looked so good!

[Posting this a day early - enjoy and celebrate tomorrow!] You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our old age grown such bad reckoners but so it was, for Cassy certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago:  [...]

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Marvel-Mania yet again! ~ the ‘Pride & Prejudice’ Comic Book

I have posted in the past on the Marvel Comics five issue series of Pride & Prejudice [you can see these posts here: issues one, two, three, four, and five] ~ but now the hardcover issue is available for purchase at your local comic book store.  It is a lovely book, with a dust jacket [...]

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Starring in ‘Pride & Prejudice’ …. YOU!

Have you always wanted to actually BE Elizabeth Bennet? – sitting at the  pianoforte [playing just passably] with Mr. Darcy staring at you from across the room? or having the gumption to turn down his first marriage proposal, despite those £10,000? or how about putting your mother-in-law in the shoes of Lady Catherine? or your snobbiest acquaintance in those [...]

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Austen on the Block ~ Mansfield Park at Auction

Another auction with one Jane Austen title:  a first edition of Mansfield Park sold today at Sotheby’s for $21,250 ~ Sotheby’s  Fine Books and Manuscripts, Sale N08602,  11 Dec 09, New York.  Session 2  Lot 75 ~ AUSTEN, JANE 10,000—15,000 USD Lot Sold.  Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium:  21,250 USD  Description:  Mansfield Park. London: Printed for [...]

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Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea! ~ December 6, 2009

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad….    [Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey]  You are cordially invited to    JASNA-Vermont’s  Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea !!   Sunday, 6 December 2009: 2-5 pm  featuring  Prof. Philip Baruth * (University of Vermont) “Badly Done Indeed: In Which Austen’s Mr. Knightley is Revealed [...]

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