Austen On the Block! ~ Northanger Abbey and Persuasion 1st edition

Auction Alert!  Christie’s Sale 5334: Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 13 June 2012, London, King Street  Lot 169:   Austen, Jane.  Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. With a Biographical Notice of the Author [by Henry Austen].London: C. Rowarth [vols I-II], and T. Davison [vols III- IV] for John Murray, 1818 [but ca. 20 December 1817].  Estimate: £5,000 [...]

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Northanger Abbey ~ Marvel Comic #5 is out!

 Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey via Marvel Comics – all five issues are now released [No. 5 came out on March 14, 2012]~  Get thee hence to your nearest comic book shop! – Here are the five covers: For more information on this five issue series of Northanger Abbey, visit the Marvel Comics website and scroll through the [...]

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Jane Austen AGM ~ Day 4: Mayhem! Team Catherine, Essays, Austen in the Wild West, & Future AGMs

Forgot to mention that the JASNA General Meeting was yesterday before the Ball: always nice to applaud the outgoing and incoming officers and offer a collective Thank You to all the volunteers that people this organization. Plus, the official announcement that Montreal will be the host of the 2014 AGM – on Mansfield Park in celebration [...]

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Jane Austen AGM ~ Day 3 Recap: Gothic Horror, Catherine’s Imagination, Henry as Hero [again!], Fashion, Conduct Books, & a Ball!

Day Three at the JASNA AGM in Portland:  A quick continental breakfast with Laurel Ann and a few friends at the table – discovered that Elaine Bander is quite a scholar of Dorothy L. Sayers –more on this in another post – and then off to the Plenary with JASNA North American Scholar Juliet McMaster [...]

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Jane Austen AGM ~ Day 2 Recap: Auden, Castles, Henry the Hero, Dancers, & Gothic Art

Portland AGM – Day Two ~ I first refer to Laurel Ann’s post at Austenprose for her take on Day 2 – we did a lot together, but also tried to attend different break-out sessions –  so here is a quick summary of my day two: I should start this by saying something about my [...]

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Jane Austen AGM ~ A Recap of ‘Mystery, Mayhem, and Muslin in Portland’!

Oh! where to begin?! As always, after a complete immersion into the long 18th-century, one is a bit befuddled for a few days, and notes, photographs, memories, and remembered conversations seem to exist in some parallel universe.  Since I am also on the road, and currently sitting in an airstream camper in the throes of [...]

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Mrs. Tilney’s Bed-Chamber ~ and Henry Tilney’s Gentle Reprimand…

Today, March 23, Catherine Morland visits Mrs. Tilney’s bed-chamber,  where she expects to find some evidence of her murder by General Tilney, or even perhaps that she has been locked away in some distant tower – but Catherine realizes how gravely mistaken she has been in all her gothic musings,  perceiving “the warm beams of a western sun [...]

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Henry Tilney’s Gothic Parody

Today [March 20] is the day that the Tilneys and Catherine leave Bath for Northanger Abbey – Catherine is riding with the innumerably-caped- greatcoated Henry: “…she found herself with Henry in the curricle, as happy a being as ever existed. A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the [...]

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You are Cordially Invited! ~ JASNA-Vermont March 21st

You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s* March Meeting  Ingrid Graff  on  ~ Learning to Love a Hyacinth: Emotional Growth in Northanger Abbey ~   Sunday, March 21, 2010  2 – 4 pm  Champlain College, Hauke Conference Center 375 Maple St  Burlington VT   Free & Open to the Public!  ******************************************* Ingrid Graff is a great friend of [...]

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In the News!

Jane Odiwe has just announced the publication of her latest novel: Willoughby’s Return. “I’m writing to everyone about my new book Willoughby’s Return, which is about to be published on November 1st and I’m hoping you will help me spread the word by mentioning its release to anyone you think might be interested. Here’s a bit [...]

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