For our June meeting, a small group of us went to Kean University's Liberty Hall Museum for brunch and a tour of Liberty Hall and the servants who lived and worked in the house in the early 1900s. We started off with the Downton Abbey Brunch.Brunch started off with a champagne toast and was followed … Continue reading Ring for Service: The Role of Servants in a Country House
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The Many Words of Jane Austen
Last week I posted an article to our Facebook page called The Queen of Modern Slang which briefly discussed words and phrases coined by Jane Austen that we still use today. After I posted that article I saw another brief article, In Jane's Words, and a mention in an Editorial: There's a Word for That … Continue reading The Many Words of Jane Austen
…the neglect of a family library
Quote from P&PI have missed this quote in past readings of P&P and thank Katie for posting this picture when she too finally noticed the quote.I have an interesting family library, the books my father collected are now mine and they line the shelves/walls in the guest room. I'm adding my own books to them … Continue reading …the neglect of a family library
Wordless Wednesday #15
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Jane Austen LIterary Sighting! – Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/avg_rating_widget/12737118 It was a May book club pick for my book club. It was a random pick off the shelf and turned out to be a really cute book and worth reading. Description from Goodreads: For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an … Continue reading Jane Austen LIterary Sighting! – Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon
Friday Video – Welcome to Sanditon
Welcome to Sanditon is the sequel to The Lizzie Bennett Diaries. This new webseries will follow Gigi Darcy as she sets out to Sanditon, California. She's there to help the beach town reinvent itself as a top resort destination.The first two episodes were aired this week. Below find the first episode
Wordless Wednesday #14
Source: flickr.com via Amelia on Pinterest Regency Lamp Posts, Brighton, England
Jane Austen Literary Sighting! – The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club
https://www.goodreads.com/book/avg_rating_widget/6997249There is an elaborate estate that movie star Grace Harrison has purchased and is now called Graceland. When Jo (our main character) drives up for the first time this is her reaction:Bloody hell. It's like something from Jane Austen, not quite Pemberley, but pretty close, with landscaped lawns as far as you can see, and … Continue reading Jane Austen Literary Sighting! – The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club
Fun Friday – Downton Abbey cooking!
One of my favorite blogs is Bite From the Past. She reintroduces us to period cooking and makes it look so easy.She is also a huge Downton Abbey fan and some themed dishes for the premiere weeks ago (but I totally forgot to share this with you all until I found the unpublished post earlier … Continue reading Fun Friday – Downton Abbey cooking!
Wordless Wednesday #13
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