Part II ~ The Perfect Visit ~ Interview with Stuart Bennett, Wherein We Meet Jane Austen and Shakespeare ~ Plus, a Book Giveaway!

Today I again welcome Stuart Bennett, for Part II of our interview where we discuss his new book The Perfect Visit, a time-travel tale, a romance, and a pure escape into the Regency world of Jane Austen and the Elizabethan world of William Shakespeare! [Please go to this link for Part I of the interview.] You [...]

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Part I ~ The Perfect Visit ~ Interview with Stuart Bennett, Wherein We Meet Jane Austen and Shakespeare … and Enter to Win the Book Giveaway!

The Perfect Visit (Longbourn Press, 2011) is, no way to say it otherwise, a perfect treat – who of us would not want to spend a few days [or pull an all-nighter!] in the company of a time-travelling couple who are each in turn lovers of books, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, and just possibly each other? [...]

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On My Austen Bookshelf ~ The Perfect Visit

This book I shall get straightaway – available in paperback or for your kindle - and as this one looks like a keeper – books! bibliophiles! manuscripts! Shakespeare! Austen! – kindle will just not cut it… Quoting full text from the Fine Books & Collections blog, by Rebecca Rego Barry: If you enjoy novels with bookish characters and antiquarian [...]

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Charles Dickens at 200 ! ~ February 7, 2012

Well, just in time! – Wishing Mr. Dickens a very Happy Birthday! – as his 200th is celebrated all the world over… Here are several of the events going on, already posted in my Penny Post Weekly Review, and a few more besides: First you must begin with the Dickens 2012 website.   And then these [...]

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Austen on the Block! ~ Affordable Jane and More…

Freeman’s Auctions [of Philadelphia] has two sets of Jane Austen’s novels up for auction this week:  BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & EPHEMERA, Sale no. 1421.  2 Feb 2012. You can view the full catalogue here. Lot 308: Jane Austen Austen, Jane. The Novels.Oxford, 1923. Large Paper edition, #1/950 (1000). 10 volumes. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 crushed burgundy levant morocco, gilt, [...]

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The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Jane Austen!

The Penny Post Weekly Review December 12, 2011 News /Gossip Author Lev Raphael on “Thank you Jane Austen” A website I just stumbled upon [yet not new!] Why Jane Austen.com : A Truth Universally Acknowledged. JASNA ~  National & Regional News A new blog:  a gentleman [we shall call him Janeite Kirk] who belongs to not just [...]

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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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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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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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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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