Source: National Trust Collection via CNJ JASNA on Pinterest Sorry for the lack of post yesterday, I ended up having to make an "emergency" trip to the car dealership to get a new car. I wondered if they had as harrowing of a time picking out new carriages as we do picking out a new … Continue reading Kind of Wordless Wednesday on a Thursday
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Regency Man Monday – Crossword Edition
Saturday, March 14, 2015George Knightley's love interest, in literature Sunday, March 15, 2015Mr. Darcy's creator
Fun Friday – A Hugh Grant Poll
Wordless Wednesday #76
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Book Recommendations – Love and Friendship & Lady Susan
Source: Daily Mail via CNJ JASNA on Pinterest The picture above is from the new film adaption of Jane Austen's Lady Susan. The movie is titled Love and Friendship (if you're like me you are kind of wondering if Whilt Stillman is going to pull in some of that famous fainting from that story into … Continue reading Book Recommendations – Love and Friendship & Lady Susan
Fun Friday – Downton Funk
The new video from College Humor:Nothing's funkier than Post-Edwardian British class struggles.
Wordless Wednesday #75
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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? – A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Yesterday, I had this conversation on Twitter with Jen Fitzgerald: @LitJrzyGrl Just finished Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own; think you would like it. Bit dated but interesting musings on women writers.— Miss JJ (@sweetiegherkin) March 1, 2015//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js@LitJrzyGrl And all that talk of women & fiction leads to many, many references to Jane Austen. … Continue reading It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? – A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Only a Novel
‘What are you reading, Miss ----?’ ‘Oh! It’s only a novel!’ replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ‘It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda’; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed; in which the most … Continue reading Only a Novel
Wordless Wednesday #74
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