Hot off the Presses! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine No. 62

The March/April issue (No. 62, 2013) of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is published this week!

In it you can read about…

• Austentatious: the theatre group that is improvising Austen themes
• What Jane did next: life at Chawton Cottage after the publication of Pride & Prejudice
• Secrets of a happy marriage: the Leigh-Perrots were a devoted couple
• Portraits of perfection: miniature paintings were fashionable in Georgian drawing rooms
• Lonely as a cloud: the life of William Wordsworth, Jane’s contemporary
• Plus News, Letters, Book Reviews and information from Jane Austen Societies in the US, UK and Australia

To subscribe click here.

[If you would like the magazine delivered to your tablet, visit the JARW partner magzter and subscribe there.]

William Wordsworth

[Image: The Guardian]

 

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, No. 61

The January/February issue (No. 61) of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, marking the bicentenary of Pride & Prejudice, has just been published and is being mailed to subscribers over the holiday period.

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine No. 59

In the new issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World
(September/October 2012, No 59):

• Mansfield Park on tour: a new stage adaptation tours the UK – we speak to the director Colin Blumenau
• Prime Minister killed: marking the bicentenary of the assassination of Spencer Perceval
• Enigma of the Orient: the remarkable tale of Marian Hastings, wife of the British ruler of India
• Brooklyn preview what’s coming up at the JASNA  AGM in New York
• Festival experience: regular visitors to the Bath Jane Austen Festival describe their time in the city

Plus … all the latest news from the world of Jane Austen, your letters, round-ups from the Jane Austen Society of the UK and the Jane Austen Society of North America, book reviews and quiz.

To subscribe visit here.

STOP PRESS… Watch out for our new book to mark the bicentenary of the first publication of Pride & Prejudice. Full details will be revealed next week!

[Text and image courtesy of JARW Magazine]

@2012 Jane Austen in Vermont

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine No. 58

The July/August issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is published this weekend and will be mailed to subscribers next week. In it you can read about: 

*A Royal Affair: a new film depicts the scandal that rocked a European monarchy 

*Olympic Jane: as the 2012 Games open in London, we look at the sports that Jane might have played

*Bath Jane Austen Festival: an exclusive preview of the fun planned for September

*Stand and deliver! the terror of highwaymen that threatened Jane’s friends and family

*Gothic horror: how Jane Austen satirised the latest literary fashion

*Plus News, Letters, Book Reviews and information from Jane Austen Societies in the US, UK and Australia

To subscribe now click here – and make sure that you are among the first to read all the news from Jane Austen’s Regency World.

Text and image from JARW – you can now read more about Jane’s world on the magazine’s new website, blog, and facebook pages here:

• JARW website
• JARW ‘Breaking News’ blog
• JARW Facebook page

@2012 Jane Austen in Vermont

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World ~ No. 57

Coming soon to your mailbox! ~ the new issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World (May/June 2012, No 57):

• Mozart’s Sister: a stunning new film tells of the talented musician eclipsed by a famous brother
• Oops, I did it again: drink, drugs, sex and gambling… lax morals prevailed in Georgian England
• Taking a tour around Steventon, birthplace of Jane Austen
• Rage against the machine: how the Luddites sought to protect their jobs and their families
• Exploring the character of Elizabeth Bennet

Plus … all the latest news from the world of Jane Austen, your letters, round-ups from the Jane Austen Society of the UK and the Jane Austen Society of North America, book reviews and quiz!

AND: Watch out for the new JARW website and BREAKING NEWS pages – coming soon to www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk

You can subscribe here - a most enjoyable treat to show up in your mailbox every other month…

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Hot off the Presses! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World No. 56

Coming soon to your mailbox!

In the new issue (No. 56, March / April 2012): 

• Archaeologists excavate the site of Steventon rectory
• Romance of the East: how Regency travellers were fascinated by Islam and the Orient
•  Best-selling novelist Karen Doornebos asks why grown men swoon over Mr Darcy
•  How Charles Dickens, the bicentenary of whose birth is celebrated this year, was influenced by Jane Austen’s contemporaries
•  Maggie Lane explores Frances Burney’s experiences at the Royal Court
•  Jane Austen’s nieces in Ireland- the amazing true story of May, Lou and Cass
• Finding the fools in Northanger Abbey *
• Plus the latest Jane Austen news, readers’ letters, book reviews and news from Jane Austen societies around the world

[*John Thorpe anyone?]

Subscription information is available at www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk

Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is the only full-colour glossy magazine dedicated to Jane Austen and the Georgian and Regency times. It is published six times a year in Bath, England, and mailed worldwide by subscription. Copies are also sold via Jane Austen’s House Museum, Chawton; the Jane Austen Centre, Bath; and Jane Austen Books in the US.

[Text and image from JARW]

Copyright @2012 Jane Austen in Vermont

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Day 4: All I want for Christmas ~ Anything Jane Austen!

Day 4: Thursday 22 December 2011

For Your Enjoyment

A plug for the Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine – if you don’t already subscribe, time to treat yourself by asking for it for Christmas; or a perfect gift for your best Jane Austen fan friend…

The next issue, Jan/Feb 2012, Issue 55 will be on sale January 1, 2012!

 

Contents:

• An interview with P. D. James [on the cover] ~ on her love of Austen and her new book Death Comes to Pemberley
• Regency Childbirth ~ Pregnancy horrors in Georgian times
• Let it Snow, Let it Snow ~ exploring the winter weather in Jane’s novels
• Letter to Cassandra ~ the joy of seeing Austen’s handwriting
• Austen’s Contemporaries ~ the ‘other’ Jane ~ Jane Porter, and her sister Anna Maria

And of course all the regular columns from JAS, JASNA, the topical news from contemporary papers, the quiz, and so much more – even the advertisements are interesting!

You can visit the magazine’s website here.

You can subscribe online here: 
http://www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk/subscriptions.html

• from outside the UK: £29.70 plus £9.00 postage [@ $60.74 total]
• from inside the UK: £29.70 plus £3.30 postage

…and worth every penny!

Copyright @2011 Jane Austen in Vermont

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine No. 54

Watch your mailbox, or subscribe now to get this Sense and Sensibility filled issue!

•Andrew Davies reveals to the JASNA conference how he ‘sexed-up’ Pride & Prejudice

[I heard Davies at the Fort Worth AGM - a hoot of a talk with many pictures from the movies - will report on this in full when I post my AGM reports - so stay tuned!]

•A new series of Garrow’s Law, the Georgian courtroom drama, hits the TV screens

•The Night Before Christmas: seasonal writing from 1800s America

•Stunning pictures from the Jane Austen Festival in Bath

•Do the men in Sense & Sensibility disappoint, asks Maggie Lane

•Take a new look at the events that led to the start of the Regency

•The moving history of the Sunday school movement

•Plus all the latest news from the Jane Austen world as well as reports from JAS and JASNA, our popular quiz, competition and readers’ letters!

 Subscribe today to Jane Austen’s Regency World, the full-colour, must-read, glossy magazine for fans of the world’s favourite author – delivered to your doorstep every two months direct from Bath, England.

More information right here: treat yourself and subscribe today!http://www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk/index.html

[Information and image from JARW Magazine]

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine ~ Issue No. 53

News direct from the publisher – the latest issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, No. 53 September / October 2011 is in the mail!

•  KATE MIDDLETON AND JANE AUSTEN ~ How the Duchess is related to our favourite author 
• STETSONS FOR JASNA ~ The AGM is comingTexas – and here’s a preview of all the exciting events in store
   
• GORGEOUS GAINSBOROUGH ~ A new exhibition of the portraitist’s landscapes
   
• THE MEDICAL REGENCY ~ Illness and death in Jane Austen’s time
   
• WORDS OVERHEARD ~Maggie Lane looks at how Jane Austen uses eavesdropping as a literary device [think Miss Steele!]
   
• BIRD MAN OF LYME REGIS ~ The ornithologist who became a success inAustralia
   
• PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS ~ A lack of low-denomination coins caused a headache for Jane
   
• AN A-PEELING TALE ~ Tackling the scandal of child labour in Georgian England
   
• Plus: All the latest news from the world of Jane Austen, as well as letters, book reviews, CD reviews quiz, competition and news from JAS and JASNA. 

Jane Austen’s Regency World will be at the following events, and look forward to meeting many subscribers, old and new: 

• Sept 17, 2011:  Jane Austen Festival,Bath,UK (country fayre) 
• Oct 13-15:  JASNA AGM,Fort Worth,Texas,USA  [hurray!!]

 For further information, and to subscribe, visit: www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk

[Image and contents courtesy of JARW Magazine]

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine No. 52

News from the editor:  the July/August 2011 issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is now on sale and has been mailed to subscribers.

In the new issue: 

• JANE AUSTEN FESTIVAL IN BATH ~ A preview of the exciting programme lined up for September
• THEATRICAL PAINTINGS ~ The amazing set of costumed portraits collected by Somerset Maugham is now in safe hands
• COAST DELIGHTS ~ How Jane Austen depicts the seaside in her novels
• FORGOTTEN BROTHER ~ Maggie Lane traces the life of George Austen, Jane’s little-known brother
• LUNAR RIOTS ~ The day a Georgian society in Birmingham was attacked by a mob
• WHEN WE ARE GONE ~ How did Cassandra handle Jane’s legacy, and what about ours?
• JANE’S MEN ~ Our favourite author was not only an expert on women, she had a strong insight into the minds of men

Plus: All the latest news from the world of Jane Austen, as well as letters, book reviews, quiz, competition and news from JAS and JASNA.

Jane Austen’s Regency World will be at the following events, and we look forward to meeting many subscribers, old and new:

• July 9 &10: Jane Austen Festival, Louisville, Kentucky,USA 
• Sept 17P:  Jane Austen Festival, Bath, UK (country fayre) 
• Oct 13-15:  JASNA AGM, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

For further information, and to subscribe, visit: www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk

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