Charles Dickens at 200 ! ~ February 7, 2012

Well, just in time! – Wishing Mr. Dickens a very Happy Birthday! – as his 200th is celebrated all the world over… Here are several of the events going on, already posted in my Penny Post Weekly Review, and a few more besides: First you must begin with the Dickens 2012 website.   And then these [...]

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World Book Day ~ March 3, 2011 ~ What is Your Favorite Book?

To celebrate World Book Day, which is today,  3 March 2011, here is a delightful book that shares the delights of books!  “It’s A Book” by Lane Smith   So what book do you like most to read and then re-read? My favorite book? My next? Or is it Jane Eyre? Or Pride and Prejudice? [...]

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Round-Up ~ All Things Austen

This week is mostly about books….! Jane Odiwe tells of her new book:  a sequel to S&S, Mr. Willoughby Returns: (see her blog for more info) When Marianne Dashwood weds Colonel Brandon both are aware of the other’s past attachments; Marianne’s grand passion for the charming but ruthless John Willoughby and Brandon’s tragic amour for his [...]

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“Between the Covers” ~ Magazine Exhibition in London

There is a new exhibition at the Women’s Library in East London:  “Between the Covers: Women’s Magazines and their Readers” chronicling the history of women’s magazines since 1600 in the U.K..  See this article on the exhibit at the Newham Recorder, and then visit the Library.  Hopefully there will be a catalogue of the exhibition which [...]

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The “Northanger Canon”: Jane Austen’s Booklist

Most of us who read Jane Austen are always seeking new titles to read, and ways to answer the 200-year old question of “what to read when you have finished all of Jane Austen.”  Other than the almost mandatory requirement to RE-READ Austen whenever possible, it is a “truth universally acknowledged” that an Austen reader [...]

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The Big Read list…a journey through books

I am a lover of booklists, and here is one from Ms. Place on Jane Austen’s World Blog (taken partially from the Big Read on the BBC,  and several other blogs)…  I repeat this here and send it out to you all…a great list, so follow the instructions and see where you have been and where you might [...]

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Why is Jane Austen so Popular?

I was having dinner with a great buddy the other night and we of course got talking about Jane Austen, as we are wont to do….we have both been reading Austen for a good number of years, attend the annual JASNA meetings together, and discuss the latest movies, occasionally disagreeing, but have terrific conversations nonetheless.  [...]

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RED-The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945

The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 is a project the Open University (UK) launched in 1996, with the aim of accumulating data about the reading experience of British subjects.  It is a searchable database of all citations in printed materials (i.e. letters, memoirs, diaries, journals, reading notebooks, autobiographies, court records, annotations, marginalia, etc.) linking an individual to their [...]

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