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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Jane Austen Weekends in Vermont! ~ Two of Them!

Well, my traveling co-hort and lover-of-London buddy Suzanne, of the Governor’s House in Hyde Park, Vermont, will be hosting not just one but two Jane Austen weekends in a row: This coming weekend [August 12-14] will be on Persuasion – come learn about the Royal Navy! discuss Anne Elliot’s dilemma! obsess over Captain Wentworth’s letter! [sigh…] [...]

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Book Review ~ ‘The Annotated Persuasion’

Last week I ran into Barnes & Noble to pick up the latest annotated Pride and Prejudice, edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks, and since then I have been “gadding about” as Austen would say – so no time to really give it a complete read and review; but in another trek yesterday into yet another [...]

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Sold! On the Block: Brock’s Illustrations for ‘Persuasion’

Sold at Christie’s London on June 2nd:  14 of C.E. Brock’s illustrations for Persuasion [plus J.M. Dent's file copy of the 1909 edition of the novel!]   “I shall have no scruple in asking you to take my place, and give Anne your arm” ~ Volume II, Chapter XI (23)  [illustration from Molland's] Lot Description [...]

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Follow-up ~ A Talk on ‘Persuasion’

[see our follow-up to the talk below...] Kellogg-Hubbard Library,  135 Main St, Montpelier, Vermont Wednesday, May 6, 2009 7pm Powers of “Persuasion” a Vermont Humanities Council First Wednesdays 2008-2009 Classic Book Program by Bennington College Professor April Bernard In her final superb novel, Persuasion, Jane Austen combined social satire with profound feeling. Why does this “fairy [...]

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Publishing ‘ Persuasion ‘

We had our JASNA-Vermont gathering last Sunday and Mary Ellen Bertolini of Middlebury College spoke on Persuasion [see Kelly's post below on our event] Mary Ellen brought Austen’s final novel to life for us all.  In speaking on “The Grace to Deserve” and taking as her starting point Captain Wentworth’s last spoken words in the book, “I must [...]

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from Persuasion to Pride & Prejudice

Our chapter must thank – and congratulate – Prof. Mary Ellen Bertolini (Middlebury College) for a stimulating talk March 1st on “The Grace to Deserve: Weighing Merit in Jane Austen’s Persuasion“. She brought up points that really made us all see aspects of the novel that we might not otherwise have ever contemplated. One new [...]

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Join Us! ~ JASNA-Vermont ~ Sunday March 1st

MARY ELLEN BERTOLINI (Middlebury College) “THE GRACE TO DESERVE: WEIGHING MERIT IN JANE AUSTEN’S PERSUASION“   Following Waterloo, rich naval officers vied with impoverished aristocrats for position and importance. Against this political drama, Jane Austen unfolds her story of Anne Elliot, who pines for Frederick Wentworth, the Naval Captain she rejected. Wentworth’s final words in [...]

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A Gift

“Happy Christmas” from Jane Austen in Vermont! Our gift today shares short comments from a reader of Austen in 1836. Thanks to R.W. Chapman, we possess the reactions of family and friends that Jane Austen herself collected (printed in his volume of Austen Juvenilia). Here – in the diary of Ellen Tollet of Betley Hall [...]

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Jane Austen this Weekend ~ Persuasion

    You MUST make a reservation:  please call the number below    Jane Austen Weekends The Governor’s House in Hyde Park 100 Main Street Hyde Park, Vermont series 1: Persuasion Friday – Sunday, August 15 – 17, 2008 Friday – Sunday, September 5 – 7, 2008 Friday – Sunday, December 12 – 14, 2008 Friday [...]

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