UPDATE!: you can follow the latest developments on this Austen Portrait at Paula Byrne’s twitter account: https://twitter.com/#!/austenportrait *************************************** News Alert! In March of this year, I wrote a post on the auction of an “imaginary” portrait of Jane Austen, one of the portraits that Deirdre Le Faye wrote about in her article for the Jane Austen Society Report 2007, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Deirdre Le Faye’
Jane Austen’s “Imaginary” Portrait ~ Coming to BBC Two
Posted in Austen Literary History & Criticism, Jane Austen, News, tagged "Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?", BBC Two, Deirdre Le Faye, Jane Austen, Paula Byrne on December 4, 2011 | 13 Comments »
On the Block! ~ An Imaginary Jane Austen
Posted in Austen Literary History & Criticism, Jane Austen, News, tagged Auctions, Bonham's, Deirdre Le Faye, Jane Austen, Portraits on March 7, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Up for auction on March 29, 2011 – Papers and Portraits, Bonham’s London, an imaginary portrait of Jane Austen. From the catalogue: Lot No: 6 - A Portrait of Jane Austen BY AN UNKNOWN ARTIST, half-length, wash and pencil, highlighted with chalk, on vellum, inscribed on the verso in a small contemporary hand ‘Miss Jane Austin’ [...]
Jane Austen on her ‘Sense & Sensibility’
Posted in Austen Literary History & Criticism, Books, Jane Austen, JASNA, literature, Publishing History, tagged Deirdre Le Faye, Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters, sense and sensibility on January 5, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Sense and Sensibility was first published in October 1811, hence all manner of this 200 year anniversary celebration will be literally taking over the world, or at least the blog-sphere world, for this entire year! [See the JASNA site for information on the next AGM in October in Fort Worth] There are already a number of blog [...]
Jane Austen’s ‘Own Darling Child’
Posted in Austen Literary History & Criticism, Books, Jane Austen, literature, Publishing History, tagged Deirdre Le Faye, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Letters, Literary History, Pride & Prejudice on June 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Laurel Ann at her Austenprose blog is currently posting a month-long group read through Pride & Prejudice – do visit and join in the discussion! – she is as always an insightful reader and discussion leader, and what better way to spend the first month of summer musing on P&P and the finer points of [...]
Austen Letter No. 2 ~ “My Tears Flow…”
Posted in Jane Austen, tagged Cassandra Austen, Deirdre Le Faye, Jane Austen Letters, Tom Lefroy on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Times Online in this Then and Now article re-publishes the Times Literary Supplement review of November 10, 1932, E.M. Forster on Chapman’s edition of Austen’s letters. It is a fascinating read. *********************************************** And on that note, I continue my Austen Letters journey, here with Letter No. 2: January 14-15, 1796 (Thursday, Friday) Jane Austen (Steventon) [...]
ESSENTIAL AUSTEN: A Chronology of Jane Austen and Her Family (a review)
Posted in Book reviews, Books, Jane Austen, Uncategorized, Your Austen Library, tagged chronology of jane austen, Deirdre Le Faye on September 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Writers necessarily edit as they write; to make paragraphs and resultant chapters coherent, some information has to be gone into in depth, while other information reluctantly or automatically must be jettisoned. Too much information, unskillfully crafted, will leave readers in the dust. A skillful author, however, molds the story with the facts at hand, picking [...]

