All I Want for Christmas ~ Anything Jane Austen! ~ Day II: For Your Bookshelf

All I Want for Christmas, Day II For Your Bookshelf English Country House Interiors, by Jeremy Musson.  Foreword by Sir Roy Strong; Photography by Paul Barker. New York: Rizzoli, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-8478-3569-0 $60. [though Amazon has it for $38., much as I hate to say that…] This book I should very much like to add [...]

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JASNA-Vermont Sept. Meeting ~ “Houses in Jane Austen’s Life and Fiction”

You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s September Gathering  with JASNA President Iris Lutz “‛…in proportion to their family and income’: Houses in Jane Austen’s Life and Fiction” *  *An illustrated lecture featuring the houses in Jane Austen’s real and imagined worlds ~ we will be visiting Chawton, Bath, Winchester, and Kent, pairing pictures of real [...]

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Jane Austen Cards for Every Occasion!

I received the information on these cards just before I was off on a holiday, so just now getting to post about them….  Tony Heaton’s “Greetings from England” line of cards and limited edition prints are quite lovely, our interest being of course those connected to Jane Austen [though certainly not limited to Austen only [isn’t [...]

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In Search of Austen in London ~ Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

[Image: Wikipedia] A visit to the Globe Theatre in Southwark is an essential stop in London.  Close to its original site, re-built through the efforts of Sam Wanamaker, the Globe had its official opening season in June 1997.  Tours are conducted year-round and the museum housing the Globe Exhibition is a must-see – I have [...]

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London Trekking

Have just returned from a week in London – hence the blogging silence – will post more pictures and some thoughts, but to start here are a few.  I met up for a delightful tea and afternoon of sight-seeing with Tony Grant, of the blog London Calling [alas! he just lately removed it from the blogsphere] [...]

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Follow Friday ~ Number One London

 “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” -from Boswell’s Life of Johnson   Obsessed with London? – you can get a daily fix from the comfort of your own computer screen by visiting the blog Number One London – at [...]

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Travel in ‘Sense & Sensibility’ Part III ~ Carriages

We will now [finally!] get to how they traveled ~ you can review the previous posts on ’Travel in Sense & Sensibility‘ here: Part I: Travel in Regency England  Part II:  A Study of Character’s Movement in S&S There is much that we do not know about Jane Austen, and the much that we do “know” has been pieced together [...]

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We HAVE come a long way…

I have been lately reading a document titled A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, London, John Chapman, 1854. [click here for this link to the transcribed text] – it, as the title suggests, is a brief summary of the laws in England as of 1854 relating [...]

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On My Booklist ~ ‘Jane Austen & Marriage’

A new book alert:  Jane Austen & Marriage by Hazel Jones, to be published in July 2009, is now available for pre-order.   Jane Austen & Marriage by Hazel Jones Continuum Books, 2009  “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a [...]

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