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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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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“Scene of Dissipation & vice”…

I am lately returned from said “Scene of Dissipation & vice” i.e. London, quoting Austen’s letter of August 23, 1796 [Le Faye, Letters, no. 3], telling of her arrival in Town and finding already her “Morals corrupted” – and where I, currently re-reading Mansfield Park, saw a good number of delightful Henry and Mary Crawfords!   So [...]

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Guest Post ~ Author Maya Slater

Gentle Readers:   Maya Slater has penned a guest post for us on her book The Private Diary of Mr Darcy  – and as I mention in my previous post, it is quite an entertaining read!  Thank you Ms. Slater for sharing your thoughts with us [and those of Mr. Darcy!]         INTRODUCING:  [...]

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Food for Thought: Austen Astrology

Does the following sound familiar? Remind you of anyone?? Aquarians “basically possess strong and attractive personalities. They fall into two principle types: one shy, sensitive, gentle and patient; the other exuberant, lively and exhibitionist, sometimes hiding their considerable depths of their character under a cloak of frivolity. …. In spite of the often intensely magnetic [...]

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An “Elizabeth & Darcy” Getaway Anyone??

The latest news of  a literary nature – and where our Dear Jane figures in – is the opening of the Nora Roberts’s Inn Boonsboro in Boonsboro, Maryland on February 17, 2009.   Ms. Roberts, the author of over 170 novels (also under the name of J.D. Robb), has been renovating this seven bedroom bed [...]

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Jane in the 21st Century ~ or Was There Life Before Blogs and Facebook?

I have decided to open a Facebook account for our Jane Austen Region here in Vermont.  One, because I hear tell from the New York JASNA Region and a few others who have done this that it is great way to reach out to the younger people in the area who are Austen fans, and Two, because it is [...]

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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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Andrew Davies, the doodler…

Thanks to an alert Janeite and Laurie Viera Rigler’s facebook site, we have the following delightful doodles from the king of costume drama, Andrew Davies:   Well, now we know what Mr. Darcy was really thinking (or at least in the mind of Andrew Davies!)…yikes! You can go to the National Doodle Day site for [...]

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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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