The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Austen

The Penny Post Weekly Review*  June 4, 2011 News and Gossip:  1.   “Josiah Wedgwood Tradesman – Tycoon, firing up the modern Age” at The Culture Concept Circle:  http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/josiah-wedgwood-tradesman-tycoon-firing-up-the-modern-age  2.  http://www.e-enlightenment.com/ – free access through the month of June:   user ID: ee2011 / PW:  enlightenment 3.  How timely is this, as I just started to re-read Evelina last week! [...]

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Reading ‘Clarissa’

I made a promise to myself back in August 2010 to finally read Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa, this promise made after reading Laurel Ann’s Austenprose interview with Lynn Shepherd.  Shepherd is the author of the  Austen-inspired mystery Murder at Mansfield Park, but also a Samuel Richardson scholar and author of  Clarissa’s Painter: Portraiture, Illustration, and Representation in the Novels of Samuel [...]

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Ann Radcliffe ~ July 9, 1764

You are cordially invited to visit my Bygone Books blog for a short bio – bibliography on Ann Radcliffe, born today, July 9, 1764. Posted by Deb

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Jane’s ‘Dear Dr. Johnson’*

I direct you to my Bygone Books Blog for a short post on Samuel Johnson with news of an exhibit at the Huntington Library… [* from Letter 50, to Cassandra Austen.  Le Faye edition, p. 121]

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Austen on the Block ~ the Results, May 6, 2009

The results of the Bloomsbury Auction that took place on May 6, 2009 in New York have been posted online.  [click here to see my previous post on this auction] The Austen titles sold as follows [sale price in brackets]: 127. [AUSTEN, Jane] Thomas Hazlehurst… Portrait miniature of Elizabeth Bridges … estimate: $2000 – $3000 [...]

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In My Mailbox ~ ‘The Female Spectator’

I am always thrilled to find in my mailbox the latest issue [Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter 2009] of The Female Spectator, the newsletter of the Chawton House Library.  The first article by Helen Cole, a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, is on “The  Minerva Press and the Illustrations of the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel” [...]

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Austen on the Block ~ Bloomsbury Auctions

Bloomsbury Auctions-New York  announces the exhibition and auction of   The Paula Peyraud Collection, Samuel Johnson and  Women Writers in Georgian Society     Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 • 10:00 am   Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, announces The Paula Peyraud Collection, Samuel Johnson and Women [...]

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The “Northanger Canon”: Jane Austen’s Booklist

Most of us who read Jane Austen are always seeking new titles to read, and ways to answer the 200-year old question of “what to read when you have finished all of Jane Austen.”  Other than the almost mandatory requirement to RE-READ Austen whenever possible, it is a “truth universally acknowledged” that an Austen reader [...]

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The Blue-Stockings

I was skimming through Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley today and find a chapter titled “The First Blue-Stocking” and thought I should share some of the history of this term, though there remains some debate as to the origins of the group as well as the term itself.  ”The Blue Stocking Circle” or ”Blue Stocking Ladies”  was an informal [...]

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