In My Mailbox! ~ ‘Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine’ ~ Finally!

Well, better late than never! – the last issue [Jan / Feb 2011, Issue 49] of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine has finally shown up in my mailbox – yesterday! – I wrote about it in a post back in December As always, cram-packed with interesting articles and images, this issue is devoted to Sense and [...]

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Your Jane Austen Reading Challenges!

I think there is a Reading Challenge afoot! – here are a few reminders of the various Jane Austen -related Reading Challenges, Contests, Giveaways, etc  – There is work to be done! Voting ends tomorrow! First and foremost, please vote on the Jane Austen Made Me Do It Short Story Contest sponsored by Austenprose and the [...]

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Book Review ~ ‘Walks Through Regency London’ by Louise Allen ~ Book Giveaway!

Book Giveaway! – see end of post for details I love London – I had the fortune to spend a semester there in 1968 – the late 60s, a crazy invigorating time the likes the world has never seen again. When I started college, men and women were housed on opposite sides of the campus, [...]

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JASNA-Vermont Event ~ March 27, 2011 ~ A Visual Tour of Regency London!

  You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s March Meeting  ~Jane Austen’s London in Fact & Fiction ~  with    Suzanne Boden* & Deborah Barnum**  Jane Austen and London! ~ Why did she go & How did she get there? ~ Where did she stay & What did she do? ~ Was it a ‘Scene of Dissipation [...]

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Interview with Louise Allen, Part II ~ Regency Romance, Heroes, and Thoughts on Writing

Book Giveaway! ~ See details at the end of this post. I welcome again Louise Allen for the second part of my interview about her new book Walks Through Regency London ~ [click here for Part I] JAIV:  Hello again Louise! – now let’s talk about your fiction: I have to make the embarrassing confession that [...]

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Interview: Part I ~ Walking around Regency London with Louise Allen

NOTE:  Book giveaway! ~ see the end of this post for details!  Please welcome author Louise Allen today as she answers questions about her new book on Regency London.  Louise is a very successful writer of historical Regency romances, over thirty-five titles to date!  Her interest in all things Regency is fed by constant research into the period, as [...]

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Travel in Sense & Sensibility ~ Part V ~ Carriages ~ Regency Sports Cars!

We have looked at travel and the various carriages of the Regency Period in four previous posts.  You can re-visit them here: Part I: Travel in Regency England  Part II:  A Study of Character’s Movement in S&S Part III: Travel S&S in Part III ~ The Carriages Part IV: Travel in S&S Part IV ~ The Carriages, cont’d [...]

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In Praise of Margaret Sullivan (and Her Henry Tilney)

A few words of praise for Margaret Sullivan, famed “Editrix” of Austenblog, developer of Molland’s, personal blogger at Tilney and Trap Doors, and authoress:  Her Jane Austen Handbook, first published in 2007 will be re-released in early March 2011 by Quirk Books.  Note that this is not a new edition; it has the same content [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day!!

Wishing you all a Day filled with Love & Chocolate! Copyright @2011 Deb Barnum, of Jane Austen in Vermont

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Thomas Lawrence Visits Yale in New Haven

The “Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance”  exhibit that closed in late January at the National Portrait Gallery in London, will be opening on February 24 [through June 5, 2011] at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT.  For those of you, like me, who were unable to catch this in London, now is [...]

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