A Colonel Brandon by any Other Name?

One of the funnier lines in Emma is when Mr. Knightley asks Emma to call him “George” after he has proposed to her. We of course know he is named George because the narrator tells us so, but while we are introduced to him in Chapter 1, we do not learn his full name until Chapter [...]

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The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Jane Austen!

The Penny Post Weekly Review  November 20, 2011  News & Gossip  *Lindsay Ashford on her new book The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen – and how Austen perhaps died from arsenic poisoning, whether intentional or not - has created quite the kerfuffle on the airwaves. Miss Ashford has written a fictional account of what might have [...]

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JASNA-Vermont Event ~ Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea!

You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s December Meeting  ~ The Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea! ~ In celebration of the Bicentenary of Sense & Sensibility (1811)    Rebecca McLaughlin*  A Second Chance for ‘Sense & Sensibility’: Marianne as Heroine  Is S & S not your favorite Austen novel? ~  Using the composition history of Sense & [...]

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The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Jane Austen!

The Penny Post Weekly Review   October 8, 2011   News /Gossip  An Amanda Vickery lecture at the Lewis Walpole Library: “Family Life Makes Tories of Us All: Love and Power at Home in Georgian England”: Indie Jane blog – a pen-pal project – alas! missed the dealine – hopefully they will do it again! fabulous idea [...]

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The Penny Post Weekly Review ~ All Things Jane Austen

The Penny Post Weekly Review   October 1, 2011 Thoughts:  Vermont as you know suffered unfathomable damage from the winds and rain of Irene.  We were largely spared here in the Burlington area, but other parts of the state were hammered – you have seen the many pictures on the national news of flooding, senseless [...]

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In My Mailbox! ~ ‘Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine’ ~ Finally!

Well, better late than never! – the last issue [Jan / Feb 2011, Issue 49] of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine has finally shown up in my mailbox – yesterday! – I wrote about it in a post back in December As always, cram-packed with interesting articles and images, this issue is devoted to Sense and [...]

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The ‘Sense & Sensibility’ Bicentenary Celebration

Maria Grazia at My Jane Austen Book Club is hosting a year-long celebration of the 200 year anniversary of the publication of Sense & Sensibility. Maria has invited twelve other Austen bloggers [including yours truly] to each post an article on Austen’s first published work.  Here is Maria’s invitation and the schedule: October 2011 will mark the [...]

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Jane Austen on her ‘Sense & Sensibility’

Sense and Sensibility was first published in October 1811, hence all manner of this 200 year anniversary celebration will be literally taking over the world, or at least the blog-sphere world, for this entire year! [See the JASNA site  for information on the next AGM in October in Fort Worth] There are already a number of blog [...]

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Jane Austen’s ‘Outside of Enough’

Anyone who reads Georgette Heyer or other Regency-era historical fiction is surely familiar with the phrase “outside of enough” – one of those “cant” phrases that is self-explanatory, doesn’t need a lexicon or such to figure out its meaning.  It is a great turn of words, isn’t it? and so much more effective that “that’s [...]

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Travel in ‘Sense & Sensibility’ Part III ~ Carriages

We will now [finally!] get to how they traveled ~ you can review the previous posts on ’Travel in Sense & Sensibility‘ here: Part I: Travel in Regency England  Part II:  A Study of Character’s Movement in S&S There is much that we do not know about Jane Austen, and the much that we do “know” has been pieced together [...]

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