Jane Austen News for Today [that could not wait...]

Two things of interest to Jane Austen fans: See this Publishers Weekly blog and their list of their “Top 10 Favorite Book Covers for 2011″ – A Jane Austen Education comes in at number 8: 8. A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William [...]

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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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Happy Birthday!

Can’t let the day – September 10th – pass without wishing Colin Firth (to many, the Mr. Darcy) a happy birthday! Another Austen-actor, Hugh Grant (AKA S&S’s Edward Farrers), celebrated his 49th yesterday. (Hugh was born in London; Colin in Grayshott, Hampshire).

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Mr. Darcy Portrait Sells

The Darcy portrait of Colin Firth that we all wanted in our very own living rooms, has sold at auction for £12,000, nearly double the estimated value; very nice really… the money all goes to charity. “This painting sold for double its estimated value for the simple reason that the series so captured the heart [...]

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On the Block ~ Mr. Darcy…

The portrait of Mr. Darcy (a.k.a. Colin Firth) that was used in the pivotal scene (Elizabeth gazing at Darcy’s portrait hanging in the portrait hall at Pemberley) in the 1995 A&E production of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice will be sold at auction on January 21, 2009 at Bonham’s Gentlemans Library Sale;  the sale also includes a [...]

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A Colin Firth sighting!

Ok, so I am confused.  I heard that there was a great first book written by Elinor Lipman called Then She Found Me (1990).  It tells the story of a 36 year-old high school Latin teacher named April Epner, who was adopted as a baby by a couple who had survived the Holocaust.  She has never [...]

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