The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Jane Austen!

The Penny Post Weekly Review   October 30, 2011 News / Gossip: JASNA  For those who did not go to the AGM [and for those who did because the sound was flawed] – here is the video previewing the upcoming AGM in New York City next October [via Kerri]: http://jasna.org/agms/newyork/video/    You can follow the [...]

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine No. 54

Watch your mailbox, or subscribe now to get this Sense and Sensibility filled issue! •Andrew Davies reveals to the JASNA conference how he ‘sexed-up’ Pride & Prejudice [I heard Davies at the Fort Worth AGM - a hoot of a talk with many pictures from the movies - will report on this in full when [...]

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Book Giveaway announced! – Jane Austen Made Me Do It by Laurel Ann Nattress

And the lucky winner is: Margay who responded on October 24 with: Well, I’m always interested in what authors think should or could have happened to these characters if Jane Austen had ever revisited them. But what intrigues me most about this book is how many well known authors participated in it – how many [...]

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Book Giveaway Reminder! ~ Jane Austen Made Me Do It

Reminder to post a comment on the interview with Laurel Ann Nattress, to be thrown into the mix for the giveaway of her book Jane Austen Made me Do It – you have until tomorrow night October 26 at midnight [i.e. the wee hours of the morning of October 27th] – I will announce the [...]

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My Book Stash from the JASNA AGM

One cannot resist the Emporium at the JASNA AGM - and this year in Fort Worth was more fun than ever – tables filled with goodies from the various Regions, and a whole room filled with local vendors from Texas.  But I first always head to the book stalls – a bad and expensive habit – and [...]

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Jane Austen Made Her Do It! ~ an Interview with Laurel Ann Nattress, blogger, author and friend ~ and a Book Giveaway!

We are very fortunate today to welcome Laurel Ann Nattress, creator of the blog Austenprose,  and editor of the just released Jane Austen Made Me Do It, a collection of Austen-inspired short stories.  The book was just launched ~ on October 14, 2011 at the Fort Worth JASNA AGM!   Hello Laurel Ann!   A hearty welcome [...]

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An Opinion of Jane Austen from the Wild Blue Yonder

I keep the following bumper sticker on my car [a mini cooper]: I’d Rather Be Reading Jane Austen but in the drivers side rear window rather than on the bumper – largely because I was hoping it would keep my husband from obsconding with my car – I figured he would be too embarrassed to [...]

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The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Jane Austen!

The Penny Post Weekly Review   October 8, 2011   News /Gossip  An Amanda Vickery lecture at the Lewis Walpole Library: “Family Life Makes Tories of Us All: Love and Power at Home in Georgian England”: Indie Jane blog – a pen-pal project – alas! missed the dealine – hopefully they will do it again! fabulous idea [...]

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A Portrait of Jane Austen – right here in Vermont!

There are any number of images of Jane Austen – the one real one we have by Cassandra that all her family agreed was not a great rendering, and the other Cassandra portrait of her sister in bonnet and dress looking out.  Both have only increased one’s wondering what she really looked like… so as it [...]

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The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Jane Austen

The Penny Post Weekly Review   October 1, 2011 Thoughts:  Vermont as you know suffered unfathomable damage from the winds and rain of Irene.  We were largely spared here in the Burlington area, but other parts of the state were hammered – you have seen the many pictures on the national news of flooding, senseless [...]

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