Mini Book Review ~ Definitely Not Mr. Darcy, by Karen Doornebos

Chloe Parker was born two centuries too late. A thirty-nine-year-old divorced mother, she runs her own antique letterpress business, is a lifelong member of the Jane Austen Society, and gushes over everything Regency. But her business is failing, threatening her daughter’s future. What’s a lady to do? Why, audition for a Jane Austen-inspired TV show [...]

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine ~ Issue No. 53

News direct from the publisher – the latest issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, No. 53 September / October 2011 is in the mail!  KATE MIDDLETON AND JANE AUSTEN ~ How the Duchess is related to our favourite author  STETSONS FOR JASNA ~ The AGM is comingTexas – and here’s a preview of all [...]

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The Jane Austen Made Me Do It Website Unveiling!

Congratulations to Laurel Ann of Austenprose fame on today’s unveiling of her new website!  Laurel Ann is the editor of a new Jane Austen anthology,  Jane Austen Made Me Do It – follow her tale on the journey to publication!  meet with the 22 authors included in the anthology!  read the short story summaries! subscribe to [...]

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The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Austen!

The Penny Post Weekly Review   22 August 2011  News & Gossip:  -The Austenesque Extravaganza continues on a daily basis at the  Austenesque Reviews  blog – stop by to participate in the fun and comment to win the various giveaways ! through August: http://janeaustenreviews.blogspot.com/ -The Jane Austen Fan Kit for your iphone: an absolute must-have!http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jane-austen-fan-kit/id455959904?mt=8  [...]

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A Better Title for Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park?

There is a fabulous and funny blog out there called Better Book Titles, by Dan Wilbur, a comedian and writer – he says: This blog is for people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences. I will cut through all the cryptic crap, and give you [...]

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Jane Austen Weekends in Vermont! ~ Two of Them!

Well, my traveling co-hort and lover-of-London buddy Suzanne, of the Governor’s House in Hyde Park, Vermont, will be hosting not just one but two Jane Austen weekends in a row: This coming weekend [August 12-14] will be on Persuasion – come learn about the Royal Navy! discuss Anne Elliot’s dilemma! obsess over Captain Wentworth’s letter! [sigh…] [...]

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Why Jane Austen? ~ and the winner is….

Char Brooks!  Congratulations Char! – Please send me an email with your address and phone number by next Monday August 15, 2011 [or the names shall be put back in the hat for another random drawing!]  Thank you all for commenting and sharing “why Jane Austen?” in your life.  For those who didn’t win, you can find the [...]

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Why Jane Austen? – Book Giveaway Deadline…

Last chance to enter the book giveaway drawing for Why Jane Austen? by Rachel Brownstein:  deadline is tomorrow Wednesday August 10th at midnight – drawing on Thursday August 18.  You can comment on either of these posts, on Why Jane Austen in your life, or just stop by and say “hello”! Part I: http://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/rachel-brownstein-on-why-jane-austen-an-interview-and-book-giveaway/  Part II: [...]

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The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Austen

The Penny Post Weekly Review   August 7, 2011 It’s been way too long since the “weekly” Penny Post has arrived in your mailbox – I am afraid to change the name to “monthly” (though more accurate today!)  because then I shall not be diligent enough to get it out at all! – so some [...]

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Part II: Interview and Book Giveaway! ~ Why Jane Austen? by Rachel Brownstein

Contrary to the main current of popular opinion today, Jane Austen’s novels are not first of all and most importantly about pretty girls in long dresses waiting for love and marriage; and they are not most importantly English and Heritage, small and decorous and mannerly and pleasant. Read with any degree of attention, they do [...]

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