Happy New Year Everyone!!

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year, with gratitude to all for your visits, your comments, and your discussions of all things Jane!  ~ Thank you for including Jane Austen in Vermont in your daily blog surfing!  See you all in 2011! Today in Jane Austen’s life:  Henry Austen married his cousin Eliza de Feuillide [...]

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How the Fashion-obsessed Jane Austen Would Love What’s Under My Christmas Tree!

Two books I have wanted found their way under my Christmas tree by way of Santa and his sleigh.  These are books to savor, perhaps even drool over on these cold dark winter nights! Here is just a quick summary:  Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail, by Avril Hart and Susan North.  Photographs by Richard [...]

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Jane Austen’s Very Own Scrooge

It is a rare date that Austen mentions in her works, but one of them is today, December 24: Christmas Eve, “(for it was a very great event that Mr. Woodhouse should dine out, on the 24th of December)” [Emma Vol. I, Ch. xiii] While we usually associate Mr. Woodhouse with often curmudgeonly weather-obsessed behavior, [...]

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Hot off the Presses! ~ ‘Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine’ and ‘The Female Spectator’

Will await this showing up in my mailbox [though see the publisher's note about weather-induced delivery delays] -  here is the latest table of contents from Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, the January/February 2011 issue No. 49:  Sense & Sensibility at 200 ~  Leading writers look at the history, relevance, importance and morality of Jane Austen’s [...]

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Book Review ~ “Jane Austen and Children” by David Selwyn

To be at the beginning of life, one must start at the end of the novel.  For although Jane Austen concludes her books with the marriage of the hero and heroine to which the whole thrust of the narrative has been leading, and the reader rejoices in the perfect happiness of the union, in reality [...]

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Illustrations of the Children in Jane Austen

In my previous post interviewing David Selwyn on his new book Jane Austen and Children [book review will be posted tomororw], I commented on discovering how many children there actually are in Austen’s novels, and how easy they are to miss.  So I started thinking about Austen’s works as published through the years accompanied by the various [...]

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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!

Breaking news!  what a birthday gift for some Austen collector out there:  the Sotheby’s auction today saw the sale of Emma: first edition, all volumes with the ownership signatures of Jane Austen’s closest female friend Martha Lloyd ( Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium:  37,250 GBP); and another Emma first edition, volumes 1 and 3 (lacking volume 2), [...]

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Author Interview ~ David Selwyn on ‘Jane Austen and Children’

David Selwyn had graciously offered to answer my questions about his newest book, Jane Austen and Children (Continuum, 2010).  David is the current Chairman of the Jane Austen Society, editor of the Annual JAS Report since 2001,  and author of numerous works and articles on Austen.  His previous Jane Austen and Leisure (Hambledon Continuum, 1999)) [...]

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Our Jane Austen Annual Tea!

We all had a fabulous day – celebrating Jane’s 235th birthday – but alas! no pictures – will write more about the day, Elaine and Peter’s talk, the tea and the delicious fare, the chat, how cold the room was, and the many many thanks yous to pass around – as well as our upcoming events [...]

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