Jane Austen’s Emma ~ Borner Cover Short-Listed by the V&A

This cover to Jane Austen’s Emma has been short-listed by the V&A in the “Book Jacket and Cover”  category for its 2012 Illustration Awards.  The cover was designed by Petra Borner and published by Bonnier in 2011.   The Swedish paperback series Albert Bonniers klassiker has long been around. But the entire series has gotten a [...]

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Jane Austen Weekends in Vermont ~ It’s All About Emma!

Mark your calendars for the upcoming  Jane Austen Weekends at the Governor’s House in Hyde Park, Vermont  – the new series on Emma starts this weekend, January 27-29, 2012.  Check out the website for more details – if you cannot make the whole weekend, you might like to visit just for the Friday night lecture [...]

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Penguin’s Newest ‘Emma’ ~ the Thread Series

Penguin Classics will be publishing a new edition of Emma in the Fall, this time with cover art by Jillian Tamaki, as part of its Penguin Threads series [Black Beauty and A Secret Garden will also be released.] and just the front with more detail: [Source:  Atlantic.com] See also Tamaki’s “Sketchblog” for details on the process [...]

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Holy Austen, Batman! ~ Marvel Comic’s ‘Emma’

The first issue of Marvel Comic’s rendition of Austen’s Emma is on the stands at your local comic book shop!  As in the previous Marvel editions, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility,  Nancy Butler writes the text, but there are newcomers to the artwork:  Janet K. Lee illustrates, and Nate Piekos pens the script.  My only [...]

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Jane Austen’s Very Own Scrooge

It is a rare date that Austen mentions in her works, but one of them is today, December 24: Christmas Eve, “(for it was a very great event that Mr. Woodhouse should dine out, on the 24th of December)” [Emma Vol. I, Ch. xiii] While we usually associate Mr. Woodhouse with often curmudgeonly weather-obsessed behavior, [...]

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A Visit to Carlton House ~ November 13, 1815

Today in Jane Austen’s life:  on November 13, 1815, Jane Austen visited Carlton House, the London home of the Prince Regent, at the invitation of the Prince’s Librarian James Stanier Clarke.  Austen was “asked” to dedicate her next book  – Emma – to the Prince – it is the only dedication in her six novels [her juvenilia was [...]

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A Letter from Henry Austen ~ October 20-21, 1815

Today in Jane Austen’s life: October 21, 1815 One of my favorite letters in the collection Jane Austen’s Letters, ed. by Deirdre Le Faye (Oxford, 1995) is Letter No. 122 (A)(D), 21 October 1815.  This is a draft of a letter from Henry Austen to John Murray on his sister’s behalf and it gives us [...]

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Austen on the Block! ~ Auction Update

The Heritage Auctions offering of Jane Austen’s novels on October 14-16, 2010 has published the results.  See my previous post here for the details. Emma ~ $8,962.50  [opening bid:  $7500.; est. $15,000.] Mansfield Park – not sold [opening bid:  $5000.; est. $10,000.] Northanger Abbey / Persuasion ~ not sold [opening bid: $3750.; estimate: $7500. ] Pride and [...]

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Web Round-up ~ All Things Austen!!

I’ve been out of the loop for the past week, so just a catch up post of items of Austen-interest, some old news, some new, but always interesting and chock full of Austen tidbits:  Jane Austen Conference at the British Library:  a 6-minute YouTube video of a student conference at the British Library–speakers Kathryn Sutherland and Elizabeth [...]

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JASNA-Vermont Outing ~ Weather Update

Well, the weather gods have not been with us [as for many of our gatherings!] – if only Friday had been Sunday, we would have had a glorious afternoon! -  so I am making the decision to have our Box Hill Picnic event inside at the college instead of in my garden – we are talking [...]

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